Unspoken Series: Building Playbooks for Cracking the Corporate Code
This workshop series will bring together Georgetown undergraduate, graduate, and master’s degree students for a series focused on the experience of navigating the corporate workplace for those of non dominant identities. By focusing on specific skills, strategies, and unspoken rules of the corporate landscape, this program is designed to both create space and community and equip attendees with a more nuanced understanding of how workplace experiences differ across identities with a special focus on women and people of color.
The rules and expectations of the workplace can feel like a minefield. This workshop will lay the foundation for key social and executive skills for navigating workplace expectations, relationships, and politics.
Graduate students will follow the same program in reverse order to undergraduate students. The lunch panel will occur at the Faculty Club in the Leavey Center.
Learning Session 1: Emotional Intelligence
Chris ‘Cash’ Ashley, President of the Black Employee Network, Amazon
Chris ‘Cash’ Ashley is an enterprise account manager at Amazon Web Services, driving innovation with customers in the healthcare life sciences industry. Beyond his professional role, Ashley serves as the president of Amazon’s Black Employee Network, DMV Chapter, and has been actively engaged in local and global leadership for over three years. Ashley also has significantly impacted Amazon’s culture as a volunteer emotional intelligence facilitator, delivering over 100 workshops to over 6,000 Amazonians and customers.
Outside of Amazon, he dedicates his time to community service. For over a decade, Ashley has volunteered as a mentor for College Bound Inc., a program supporting D.C. public high school students’ journey to college. Additionally, Ashley serves on the Alexandria Boys and Girls Club board. He also serves as a part-time adjunct professor at Georgetown University, teaching strategic human development and acting as a capstone advisor.
Panel Discussion with Ella Washington and Alumni:
Ella Washington, Senior Advisor to the Dean on DEI Initiatives
Ella Washington is an organizational psychologist who finds inspiration through the intersection of business, diversity, and leadership. Her research examines conditions of workplace cultures that best support inclusion, diversity, and equity while also contributing to employee’s individual development. As a member of the management faculty at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, Washington prides herself on helping to develop and equip tomorrow’s business leaders with skills to be high-performing, inclusive managers.
Washington is committed to connecting her academic research to touch the lives of organizational leaders. As a double-certified International Coaching Federation and Gallup-certified strengths coach, her passion for coaching, facilitating, and public speaking is unmatched. She has worked one-on-one with leaders and teams at the executive and mid-levels to develop tactical skills to enhance their organizations.
Learning Session 2: Psychology of Money: Navigating Your New Salary and Status
George Comer, Co-Academic Director of the Georgetown Reach Program, Director of Underrepresented Minority Student Support
George Comer has been a faculty member at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business since 2001. His research focuses on the performance and behavior of institutional money managers. Past and current research projects have focused on hybrid mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, and unit investment trusts.
Comer currently serves as the director of underrepresented minority student support and the Georgetown Reach Program’s co-director. In addition, he co-teaches a class on personal finance in the Georgetown Pivot Program as part of the Georgetown Prison and Justice Initiative.
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Accommodation requests related to a disability should be made by Tuesday, April 2, 2024 to msb-deiinitiatives@georgetown.edu. A good-faith effort will be made to fulfill requests made after April 2.