How does volunteer leadership open you up to one corporate leadership opportunity after another?
According to Angela Shaw, volunteer leadership is playing the long game to ensure career transition success. Shaw is an accomplished Human Resources professional who was recently sought out to become the Chief People Officer of Juiceland, a growing, independently owned juice concept company.
She is the past president of the Austin SHRM; past Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Director for the Texas SHRM; adjunct professor at the University of Austin in Texas; and she sits on the boards of Peloton University and the YWCA of Austin. She is a dynamic public speaker who gave a TEDx talk in 2019, “Busting the Stereotype of the Angry Black Woman.” A servant leader who is devoted to diversity and workforce readiness, Shaw sees volunteer leadership as the key to unlocking her last three successive career moves.
I invite you to read Shaw’s inspiring story about overcoming the challenges and bias she has faced as a Black woman, how she tenaciously continues to map out her career path with goal setting, and how she builds authentic relationships through communit volunteer leadership.
I am grateful to our mutual connection, Ricklyn Woods, for introducing us. You were a guest on her podcast, “So You Want To Work In HR?” I listened to it three times! Your strategic and intentional way of building your brand through volunteer leadership is powerful and will inspire many people. I was struck by you saying you are no different or better than anyone else.
When I think about the privileges people have, I don’t think only in terms of skin color, if someone went to college, or if they grew up with a silver spoon. While I grew up lower class, I came from a two-parent household. I grew up in an actual house with a backyard. I ate meat every day. I consider that privilege, too.