The Inner Workings Blog
Some of the things on my mind.
Know Your Value. It is that Simple.
Know Your Value. Refuse to Accept Less. There’s a specific kind of quiet that happens when you realize the trade you made on purpose, taking less than you were worth for the sake of an opportunity, a foot in the door, a chance to prove something, never got renegotiated. It...
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Building Executive Presence as a Black Man
Gravitas, authenticity, and visibility — woven into one. Picture a Black manager walking into a quarterly business review. The deck is sharp. The numbers are clean. He has done the work. But the moment he opens his mouth, a familiar calculation begins to run in the background — How loud...
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Transitioning Careers Without Losing Momentum or Identity
Let me set the scene. I came up through engineering. I studied it, lived it, and parlayed it into a career in tech — including building my own startups. If you had told me then that I would one day be leading U.S. Customs brokerage operations for a major international...
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Selah: Pause and Reflect
On the quiet discipline we keep forgetting There is a small word tucked into the Psalms that most readers skip over. Selah. Scholars still debate exactly what it meant to the original audience, but the working consensus is that it was a kind of musical or liturgical direction — a...
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