Sponsorship and Career Change With Sophia Dozier

Sophia Dozier is the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Rapid7, a company that believes in simplifying the complex to unite your teams around cybersecurity. She is a data-driven professional that supports diversity and inclusion. She helps drive strategy around diversity retention, engagement, leadership development, strategic partnerships, and hiring. Sophia also worked at Clong Education, IBM, and Google.

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Are you in a career that you desire? Would you want to change your career? How can you do this efficiently without risking your current occupation? 

Many people fear having honest conversations with their employers or managers about their career. They lack mentors and sponsors who can have those conversations and can successfully guide them. Companies also lack diversity, equity, and inclusion programs that enable employees to feel free in their careers. Now Sophia Dozier shares the ways she successfully transitioned careers and how she's creating DEI programs that give their employees a sense of belongingness. 

In this episode of Reclaim Your Career, Jess Galica is joined by Sophia Dozier, the Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Rapid7, to discuss how you can have career changes through different programs. Sophia talks about her career transition into DEI, the importance of having honest conversations about your career, and how she’s incorporating mental health into overall DEI strategy.