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"This book is for anyone who wants to understand what being more inclusive at work means, especially as it relates to black leaders. Based on candid interviews with thirty successful black leaders, it peels away the multifaceted layers of black British leaders in organizations to offer a new way of thinking about the black British experience. This book provides the insights and ideas required to have positive conversations about race at work and to create work environments where black leaders can thrive. This book offers new ways of thinking about black people at work that help to further inclusion. It shines a light on the daily reality of being a black leader in the workplace, providing an alternative entry point for conversations around inclusion and explores what individuals and organizations can do to increase inclusion in the workplace. Through firsthand stories this book explores the challenges, compromises, struggles, and successes that black people encounter, and the range of strategies they employ to achieve success as they navigate the ""white"" workplace. It is essential for business leaders in the private, public, and third sector, human resources professionals, students, anyone teaching or mentoring black students or leaders, and everyone interested in understanding race and furthering inclusion in the workplace."

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Barbara Banda is the founder of the leadership consultancy BarbaraBandaConsulting, which works with Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies. As professor of practice and educator in leadership, inclusive leadership, and change at Duke Corporate Education, Rotterdam School of Management, and Hult Ashridge, she is passionate about connecting leadership education to the realities of daily life in organizations. Barbara holds five degrees, including a doctorate of philosophy from the University of Oxford that explored the importance of connecting management education to the workplace, which informs her approach with clients. She is black British of Jamaican heritage.

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