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LeaderChat 2020

Session 5.0: Bozoma Saint John | General Discussion

10/12/2020

 
Use this thread for general commentary on the session and what your takeaways are! Feel free to post questions, share stories, etc. 

Positive disruption is one of the most difficult things for us to understand, says Bozoma Saint John, chief marketing officer of Endeavor, in her talk at Leadercast 2020—Positive Disruption. “How do you do it in a way that will make you better without affecting and truly negatively disrupting everything around you?” she asks. For her, positive
disruption means constantly challenging her interactions with people and her career.


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Kyle Evatt
10/12/2020 10:21:26 am

I look forward to living in a world where people are not judged based on the color of their skin, their gender their social status/wealth or their sexual orientation, but instead on the content of their character. This is something that starts at the individual and then grows throughout communities and continues to grow. The only way this happens if there are those who work for that in the right ways. Educate others through facts and real life stories rather than push others out or push others down.

Josephine Kershaw
10/14/2020 02:51:53 am

From her perspective of being a minority woman with a father as a role model who did not let a crippling injury keep him from becoming a world champion, I understand why Bozoma Saint John defines positive disruption as "constantly challenging her interactions with people and her career". This constant challenge of people and career interactions is within the context of the persistent glass ceiling for women, in addition to structural racism and implicit bias. Not surprisingly, many studies have found that representation from communities of color is disproportionately lacking among executives.

In contrast, leaders like Bozoma have learned to believe in themselves despite a greater likelihood of adversities among communities of color (including inadequate health care, food insecurity, incarceration of black males, environmental violence, societal presumptions and stressors) that impact upward career mobility.

According to Bozoma, overcoming these challenges involves innovating to "always be working to better yourself" --that I would interpret to be a commitment to lifelong learning, as well as "showing up as your authentic self" --despite being a minority presence amongst the majority-- because others, especially younger generations, can then feel encouraged by your inspiration when they see a role model of color and create a ripple of change, perhaps even a wave of belongship.


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