Raven Solomon

Areas of Impact

Leadership

Change Management

Inspirational

Overcoming Adversity

Diversity & Inclusion

Presentation Titles

Understanding & Motivating Gen Z: Learn What Your Future Employees and Customers Want and Demand

Leading Your Parents: Manage, Lead, and Influence Those Other Than You

Closing the Generational Gap: Empathize, Communicate. and Collaborate Across Generational Differences

 

I knew at a very young age that I wanted to change the world and that I'd one day have a platform from which to do it.  For a while, I thought that platform would be leading a large business in Corporate America - particularly after graduating from the College of Management as valedictorian of my NC State graduating class.  I was primed for the traditional route to the c-suite and was well on my way, fast-tracking my career to an executive-level role at just 28 years old, leading across all degrees of difference.

I'd overcome so many obstacles to arrive there, picking up critical diverse experiences along the way.  Some of which I could have only dreamt of as a little Black girl raised by a single mother in the South.  Finally, I was living the dream!

Then came the epilepsy diagnosis and it came crashing down.  

I was faced with a choice - my health or my career.  I chose the former, thankfully, and it ultimately led me here.  To you.  And to a platform of change bigger than I could have ever imagined.  Not only do I get to lead and influence people, as I enjoyed so much in my corporate career, but I get to teach people to lead & influence people, and to do so inclusively.  The exponential impact I get to have now helping companies all over the world create inclusion by embracing diversity and advancing equity brings my soul joy and fulfills my purpose.  

This is indeed the platform for change I knew would come as a young girl.

Thanks, epilepsy.

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