5 Ways to Let Your Black Girl Magic Shine through in a Corporate World

Allow your Black Girl Magic to shine through in a corporate world.

PORTIA CRAWFORDFunke AdenijiNovember 28, 2018corporate, women, woman, board, room, space, decision, makers, tips, five, 5, hydrate, accessorize, water, smile, personality, shine, black, giel, girl, magic

21 Ways to Elevate to Your Best Life

Imagine walking into a room with 1,000+ beautiful black women smiling, laughing, and hugging each other.

CAREERFunke AdenijiJune 23, 2018corporate, women, woman, interview, black, job, questions, job search, practice

20 Common Interview Questions, What They Really Mean, and How to Smartly Answer Them

Got an interview coming up? Or just want to practice before you get a call back? Check out these 20 interview questions: what they really means and how to answer them.

CAREERFunke AdenijiJune 10, 2018corporate, women, woman, interview, black, job, questions, job search, practice

When Your Sexual Harasser is also Black in the Workplace

A colleague of mine first began sending inappropriate messages via a chat service on our work computers. I had no idea how to interact with him, initially chalking up his flirty behavior with “the way he is".

Funke AdenijiMay 27, 2018corporate, women, woman, black, sexual, harassment, harass, adri, speaks

TURN DOWN FOR WHAT?

In fact, it seems, on the surface, that employers would rather hire people they need to spoon feed than a free thinker.

PORTIA CRAWFORDFunke AdenijiMarch 29, 2018corporate, women, woman, black, hold back, freethinkers, freethinking, smart

10 Reminders When "Having an Opinion" in the Workplace

Often as human beings, we are too busy responding to argue, or just to simply respond, rather than to listen and understand.

BEVERLY CARTERFunke AdenijiMarch 16, 2018corporate, women, woman, black, enter, exit

The Enter and Exit of a Black Woman in the Workplace

You experience little things that make you feel uncomfortable. An example from my own experience is my boss asking me "Are you sure you can do this?" multiple times like I don't know what I'm doing. I used to tell him. "Yeah, I'll ask questions if I feel confused." But he used to ask me that all the time. It was annoying, and I felt belittled.

Funke AdenijiMarch 9, 2018corporate, women, woman, black, enter, exit Comment

Omarosa: Are We Dismissing Her Black Experience?

So as Black woman who has probably had the same barriers and struggles that I may had experienced, why did I think her Black woman narrative is unwarranted?

KIKI N., RACE/GENDER, STEREOTYPESFunke AdenijiDecember 16, 2017corporate, women, woman, black, girl, omarosa, experience, dismiss, dismissing

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