These Former C-Suite Executives Founded An Entire Month Dedicated To Black Professionals. Here’s How

Essence Magazine:

By Jasmine Browley ·September 28, 2021 Updated

Black professionals hold only 3.2 percent of all executive or senior leadership roles and less than one percent of all Fortune 500 CEO positions. 

Former Reebok executive Denise Kaigler and her friend Jerome Hutchinson, Jr., who once led programming at Radio One and CBS Radio had first-hand experience with these sobering numbers. 

After successfully climbing the corporate ladder to head of marketing at Reebok where she led campaigns for Venus

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