BIN Exclusive: Dr. Leah Brown Johnson Talks Leadership Training

In an exclusive interview with the Black Information Network, Dr. Leah Brown Johnson, owner of Be Equipped, talks about her nonprofit organization that provides leadership training for clients seeking to grow into leadership roles.

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Career experts warrant don't work harder inyour career to get ahead, but smarter
and black women who are climbing thecorporate ladder. That means setting up boundaries
them on an excellence for some couldbe going above and beyond doing two percent
and bring themselves out because when weallow ourselves to be extended beyond standards amount
as, we find ourselves either hittingthat glass ceiling feeling or being set up

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on that glass cliff, and whenwe fall off feeling burned out, not
supported, or not giving the positionthat we thought we thought we should have
had. African American doctor Leah BrownJohnson is the owner of be Equipped,
a nonprofit that offers leadership information forpeople to meet their personal and corporate goals.
She says, a valuable nugget ofadvice is to watch those in leadership

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and take mental notes. Also,get a mentor. It can help you
with best practices to show your bossesyou're a leader. Get an external professional
mentor through a referral or through anassociation. One of my best professional mentors
was an external person that was areferred to me that had similar expertise and

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it was one of the best mentorsI had ever had professionally. In an
article by CareerBuilder dot com on sixcareer success insights, experts also say learn
to be a mentor yourself and advocatefor others in the workplace. Also,
your road to success may not bedirect, so be flexible and remember there
are no setbacks in life, onlyopportunities. Johnson says often black women go

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wrong by failing to network. Itcould be over a playing squash or you
know, going through the gym together. So not just being a workaholic and
never taking the time to establish socialnetworks. I think we go wrong in
that area all the time. AndCareerBuilder dot com also says showing you're a
leader comes by leading by example withempathy for others on your team, as

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well as don't confuse kindness by otherswith incompetence or the inability to make hard
decisions. CareerBuilder dot Com is aproud national partner of the Black Information Network