Breaking Concrete: How Black Women Achieve Professional Success with Dr. Ella Bell Smith - a podcast by Cheryl-Lyn Bentley

What does it take to achieve professional success? In Episode 14, the Season 1 Finale, Dr. Ella Bell Smith, Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and nationally recognized managerial consultant and expert on women’s workplace issues, joins to share pearls of wisdom about how Black women break concrete. She is the co-author of the widely acclaimed book, Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity. We chat about a range of factors critical to Black women’s professional success from engaging in difficult conversations with supervisors about race and gender to preserving and showing your authentic Self at work, developing your professional identity, and building professional and personal relationships that support your career aspirations.

Find links and show notes at https://breakconcrete.com/bc014

Topics Covered: 

• Push back she faced within academia for her research on Black women
• Challenges of tokenism
• Responding to microaggressions at work
• How to have difficult conversations about race and gender with supervisors 
• Dr. Bell’s formula for professional advancement
• Preserving and bringing your authentic Self to work
• The concept of the concrete wall and Black women’s experience breaking through 
• Strategizing when and how to make your exit 
• Changes in your relationships as you climb the corporate ladder
• Finding love, a life partner, and balance

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