Fatimah Gilliam, Esquire. is the Founder and CEO of The Azara Group. As a skilled strategist, business leader, negotiator, and trusted advisor, she has spent her career advancing her clients’ goals. She leverages her expertise to provide real-world guidance. Her mission is to empower her clients to be strong business leaders, drive results, have successful careers, and be strategic in influencing others. She is an author, lawyer, consultant, public speaker, and entrepreneur whose career combines expertise in the law, diversity, human capital, leadership, stakeholder engagement, and negotiations – helping organizations gain influence and strategic leverage, build coalitions and consensus, drive business and organizational goals, and advance workforce optimization.  Ms. Gilliam is the author of the groundbreaking book, Race Rules: What Your Black Friend Won’t Tell You, which is an innovative, practical manual of the unwritten “rules” relating to race, helping people navigate polarizing issues.  Race Rules provides much-needed how-to advice to drive equity and behavioral change.  Introducing a straightforward, universal 3-step framework to unlearn racism, drive equity, and challenge misconceptions, it provides tips and tools on cross-racial interactions in people’s personal and professional lives. 

What You Will Hear:

• Being on CNN to discuss her uncle Jesse Balmore’s murder by the government and it impact
• What Fatimah learned about herself during her incredibly diverse and successful career
• The key component in the art of negotiation
• Difference between a good leader and a great leader.
• DEI
• Race Rules: What Your Black Friends Won’t Tell You

Quotes:

“Don’t ask don’t get…… if you want it, you’ve got to ask for it because no one's going to ask for it for you.”

“Don’t negotiate against yourself.”

“One thing that I think is really important for people to recognize or think about when it comes to race is that it's not neutral….there is no neutral zone. You're either standing in opposition to racism, or you are standing in support of it.”

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Race Rules

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