Every senior black lawyer will tell you: if you want to progress in a white world, you must have a sponsor - someone invested in you, willing to advocate for you, champion you, mention you in rooms you don't have access too, positively influence the views of those who don't know you.
But winning a sponsor isn't always easy. For many it happens by chance. For most it doesn't happen at all. So what do you do when you want to progress your career but you can't find the sponsor to support you?
The answer is, sponsor yourself. That's right. YOU be the one to put yourself in rooms you don't have access to and to win opportunities that wouldn't otherwise go to you.
This isn't as hard as it sounds. All you have to do to sponsor yourself is to proactively progress your career. That's it. Just decide you are going to progress to your goal and follow a proven strategy that will get you there.
In this session I outline what that strategy is and show you how following even just one of those steps is going to not only create forward momentum in your career, it's also going to invite an endless flow of micro acts of sponsorship and attract that sponsor that you so eagerly await.
Here are the 6 steps to take to proactively progress your career:
