Linda Patterson
This article was written by Linda A. Patterson, an executive-level leader with 25+ years of IT and healthcare experience, and who currently serves as the Director of Technology Training at GenSpark.
As a woman of color, it is important that when I consider employment with your organization, I see representations of myself in roles across the spectrum — including at the senior level. I’m not suggesting that job qualifications are irrelevant, of course, but I’m asking you to adjust your lens to look past gender and color for talent. Better still, look at women of color and recognize that your organization is in need of their talent.
Women of color are equipped with a tried-by-fire strength that stems from endurance, persever- ance, and survivorship. Their formal education is greatly enhanced by the type of intelligence not found in books. Women of color know how to love with a strained, frayed heart and can face their fears without batting an eye.
As CEOs, mamas, and in every other role, women of color manage, create, innovate, strategize, and multitask. But even after adding these powers to their degrees and specializations …
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