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Advancing Black Professsionals Accelerator
At Career Thrivers, we've designed Advancing Black Professionals™ to help organizations retain Black talent and create a more inclusive culture by empowering and equipping Black leaders with the skills, coaching, and sponsorship needed to achieve and advance their career.
Black professionals face unique barriers to advancement in the workplace.
This interdisciplinary program will empower and equip Black leaders with the power skills - self-awareness, communication, personal branding, influence, systems thinking, resilience, and relationship building - to advance their career.
In addition to developing Black professionals to advance their career through this curriculum, Advancing Black Professionals™ also provides senior leaders with the skill-building and guidance to sponsor Black professionals in a supportive and collaborative learning environment.
Why
Helping organizations retain and advance Black professionals through targeted leadership development and sponsorship.
How
Immersive skill building plenaries, coaching, sponsorship, and hybrid meet ups.
Who
Mid-Senior career Black professionals and senior leadership sponsor.
Emotional Intelligence and Leading Well
Clearly define your values, purpose, vision, and strengths to fulfill your professional aspirations as you live and lead well.
Communication Mastery for Leaders
Learn proven techniques that help you own your voice, master storytelling, and communicate your value in a clear, concise, and compelling way.
Relationship Building and Cultivating Connections Virtually
Build and leverage your network and uncover ways to build connections and community beyond your affinity group/ERG.
Strategic Planning for Career Advancement & Business Success
Learn proven techniques that help you own your voice, master storytelling, and communicate your value in a clear, concise, and compelling way.
Financial Skills Building
Enhance financial literacy and learn basic economics to read, analyze and prepare business financials.
Leading Others and Leading Teams
Leverage the skill of Influencing without positional authority to get results through others. Learn impactful leadership styles for managing change and winning hearts and minds.
Personal Branding to Own Your Career
Build a powerhouse personal brand to be the obvious choice for your next career advancement opportunity.
A leadership development + sponsorship program to advance Black professionals.
The Advancing Black Professionals™ (ABP) Accelerator doesn't stop at developing Black talent. ABP provides a structured and collaborative formal sponsorship program within the accelerator to help sponsors and emerging Black professionals cultivate relationships and learn ways to contribute to DEI priorities that improve retention and leadership representation of Black professionals.
Additional Program Benefits
Participants in Advancing Black Professionals™ will also have access to:
