Leading While Black: Challenges of being an African American leader in a White organization

This book is intended to highlight a phenomenon that occurs daily in the lives of Black leaders who serve in leadership positions in predominantly White organizations. Those individuals are evaluated and critiqued with the normal metrics of leadership, but they are also subjected to an additional set of expectations and challenges that do not apply to their White counterparts.
The challenges highlighted in this book – regardless of industry or whether in the public or private sector – are th...