The Immigrant Experience: Challenges, Opportunities, and Impact in the Workplace with Jackie Glenn

Break Concrete: Black Women At Work

From a newly immigrated nanny to CEO, Jackie Glenn has embraced life’s challenges with boldness and humility, always being true to herself and giving back to those who come after her. It’s this commitment to helping others, which led Jackie to write her instructional biography, Lift As I Climb: An Immigrant Girl’s Journey Through Corporate America. Jackie discusses how she climbed her way up the corporate ladder and the character gems that brought her and other immigrants professional success in the American workplace.

Topics Covered:

• Why Jackie decided to write Lift As I Climb: An Immigrant Girl’s Journey Through Corporate America
• Workplace challenges Jackie faced as an immigrant in the U.S.
• How your accent can impact you in the workplace
• Defining authenticity
• How to turn your unique attributes into an advantage
• Jackie’s experience moving to the U.S. as a young single Black woman from a predominantly Black country
• Confronting microaggressions in the workplace
• Getting out of your head
• Resilience in the workplace
• How to address being passed over for a promotion
• Soliciting feedback from others

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