Insightful #ProTip from Jopwell Co-Founder, Ryan Williams
workplace allies
Our Black History Month series on the Black leaders at Jopwell continues with a feature on our President and Co-Founder, Ryan Williams, who emphasizes the importance of expressing your interests to find common ground with potential allies.
The Nod event is fast approaching this Thursday, February 21 -- RSVP to mingle with Jopwell’s Black leadership team to listen to an engaging conversation on how to navigate the workplace to find allies as a professional of color and thrive in your career.
Ryan Williams, Co-Founder and President of Jopwell
Ryan’s #ProTip
“Do your best to publicly ‘fly the flags’ of your professional or personal interests. Make sure people know what drives you. Putting yourself out there and being vocal about projects of interest, areas of desired future growth, professional goals, or even side hobbies is one of the best ways to ensure that prospective future allies become aware of your interests -- including, hopefully, any shared ones. Discovering an alignment in goals or interests can expose a stronger commonality than the obvious one. This fosters a much more natural, mutually beneficial, and less transactional dynamic for sharing advice, benefiting from each other's experiences, and combating the sense of being in this alone. You're not!”
About Ryan
Ryan is the President and Co-Founder of Jopwell. Prior to founding Jopwell, Ryan earned his Bachelor’s in finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and worked as an analyst in foreign exchange sales at Goldman Sachs, on the same trading floor as Co-Founder Porter Braswell. Together, Ryan and Porter created Jopwell and developed it into the leading career advancement platform for Black, Latinx, and Native American students and professionals. Ryan has been featured on Forbes’ 2018 “30 Under 30,” Fast Company’s 2017 “100 Most Creative People in Business” and Inc. Magazine’s 2016 “30 Under 30”. Ryan has also been a featured speaker at the Fast Company Innovation Festival, the Tech Inclusion New York summit, the Peer 150 HR National Summit, and the DISC Sports Diversity & Inclusion Symposium.
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