Career Advice
A blog by Marie Deveaux
Top 10 Black History Films to Watch this Month
It is not the job of black people to teach you history because history does not just belong to one demographic group. We share a history as inhabitants of the planet. As we all grow and learn, we can also achieve more. And that allows us all to have conversations...
Knowledge Does Not Equal Power for Women at Work
Knowledge is power, unless you're a woman. Worse if you're a Black woman.I love education. I'm a learner. My profession has been in training and development for two decades. I became a coach because I'm fascinated by the inner workings of the mind and our ability to...
Side Hustle Alumni: Coach Kerry Talks About Integrity
Read the transcript below... Marie: Okay, it's Marie here, it is Wednesday, we are live at lunch. I am here with coach Kerry-Ann Elliot today. I am super excited because Kerry's one of my favorite-favorite people. And you're going to find out why in just a minute, but...
The Reckoning – A Year of Racial Awareness in America
It's been a year of reckoning, a year of racial awareness in America. One year ago this week, a man named George Floyd was murdered in the streets of Minneapolis. The world watched and cried as a white man knelt on a Black man's neck for over 9 minutes. The world...
EQ in a Virtual World(Video On vs. Off)
You can stop mandating everyone to have their video on when in Zoom. As a communications coach and professional facilitator for what seems like forever, I often find myself being asked about best practices to get full engagement. I find myself challenged about what...
Poking Holes in the “I have a friend…” Defense for Inclusion
It's interesting to me that in 2021 people are still using proximity as a proxy for evidence of inclusion or inclusive behavior. In sessions with clients I remind them that "to include" is a verb. It's an action word, as my second grader will tell you, which means...
5 Reasons To Inc Your Business ASAP
Incorporating your business is a very important step and a huge milestone for any small business owner or side hustler. Many are eager to Incorporate because it makes you feel official. Others see incorporation as the first step to really running your business...
Anti-Blackness in your Black Owned Business
Is your black owned business anti-black? It's a compelling thought right? It all starts from an understanding that when we are talking about Anti Black racism we are not talking about the actions of individuals, but instead the product of policies and procedures that...
Business Review: Why Sankofa is a core value of my Business
Everyone should have guiding principles that are at the core of their business review, their life and their work. Mine are abundant equity, growth, community and Sankofa. I feel like in some ways Sankofa is a cheat because it means so much. It's more than just one...
How to Run an Easy Year-end Post-Mortem for your Businesses
As the year comes to a close it's a great time to pause and do a post-mortem on all that we've accomplished, all that we want to continue, and what we're willing to let go of. A simple Start-Stop-Continue exercise is a great way to kick off your Q4 post-mortem and set...
This Little Light Of Mine: Magnifying Your Energy
Do you know what it is to be a star? You know a star is a concentrated ball of energy? It creates light because light is energy and movement because that's energy too. And it doesn't take instructions from anyone. A star shines because that is its nature. It doesn't...
Radical Rest and other Confessions of a Recovering Workaholic
Are you a recovering workaholic? If so, when was the last time you really rested? Especially in the field of Coaching and Consulting our very presence is a service that we provide to others. So often I find that clients not only seek me out because they have questions...