Episode 5
Your Blackness is an Asset with Dr. Jeanette Mitchell
Dr. Jeanette Mitchell grew up in St. Lewis, Missouri and moved to Milwaukee at high school. She spent 30 years at telephone company AT&T, where she has learned how to be a manager, how to be a leader. She left the company as the highest-ranking black woman. As the Program Director at Cardinal Stritch University she established the Leadership Center, through which she helped design and manage several leadership development programs. She is the founder of African American Leadership Program, and African American Leadership Alliance of Milwaukee. For Dr. Jeanette, Leadership is influence. Influence of yourself and other towards the goal that is mutually beneficial, morally and ethically. But you first have to get right with you and then as you get right with you, you get right with others. And yes, her blackness is an asset.
What we talk about:
05:45 – Alverno helped me to realize that this was not just about Jeanette, that I need to give back to community.
15:50 – That’s how AALP came about. The idea behind it was to have people cross-sector, so that you get to know each other.
22:18 – Transformation is like inner grounding where you really start to look at where your values are, what it is about. And that can bring you to a change.
28:00 – Right now we’re trying to redefine Milwaukee as the top-ranking city for African Americans. We want to make sure that African American Leaders chose to live, work, and prosper here.
33:00 – To be a leader, you really have to know who you are. Leadership is from the inside out, which means you have to take time to reflect on your practices, how congruent are you, is your work aligned with your values, how are you really living your life. It is important. And the awareness - taking time to become aware who you are and how you’re interacting with those around you.
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