#16 Be patient! Give people a chance!

11/28/20 • 56 min

Brian Levy, a black, Native American Indian executive shared a different dimension to the black phenomenon. He spoke on the intercession of the natives and blacks, approach to navigating the success route, and his strategies to improve the life of the marginalized.
"And so, she's being sheltered from that entire life, I'm really just more happy that she doesn't have to go through what I went through. Where, you know, I had to scrape and crawl through. It was made known to me really early on in my entire life, that I was not equal. Always had to double down, I mean, with 30 certifications, my mentality is always, if you have to make it, you have to prove that you are better than everyone else" - Brian Levy

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#15 - Time to move from Rhetoric to Action

Sue Subocz PhD - a white female executive, is the Provost of Walden University. She shared her experience as a Coast Guard Captain, and provided the specifics on the importance of higher education in driving the conversation forward. She emphasized the importance of critical listening, vulnerability, and skepticism.
"More a series of events, where you say to yourself, some kind of inequity or disparate treatment because of confluence of events or systems that influence decision-making " - Sue Subocz

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#17 - Excellence comes in all colors

Ken Bentley, black male executive and CEO of APGA Tour, and previously a Vice President at Nestle USA spoke about his childhood experience as a black inner city kid from Los Angeles. He cited a number of black role models that many are unaware of, and he discussed his path to the top at Nestle, the significance of "Amen corner", and bridging the opportunity gap.
"Then my mother showed up, she had been parking the car. She shows up and she said, "I'm going to have the NAACP investigate this. This is racism." And here, my mother was 5ft tall. And here is this woman, 5 ft tall, standing up for her son, and standing up to this white establishment, which were all men. I was so impressed with my mom because that was an " - Ken Bentley