The Essential Podcast, Episode 45 : An Expectation for Change - Black Professionals in Corporate America

About this Episode

Lanaya Irvin, CEO of Coqual, joins the Essential Podcast to discuss the organization’s research study on how Black professionals working in Corporate America understand their experience, and what’s driving their search for new opportunities.

The Essential Podcast from S&P Global is dedicated to sharing essential intelligence with those working in and affected by financial markets. Host Nathan Hunt focuses on those issues of immediate importance to global financial markets—macroeconomic trends, the credit cycle, climate risk, ESG, global trade, and more—in interviews with subject matter experts from around the world.

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Show Notes

• This interview discusses Coqual’s seminal research, “Being Black in Corporate America: An Intersectional Exploration,” thatanalyzes the challenges and obstacles that Black professionals face in the U.S. corporate sphere, alongside Lanaya Irvin’s personal experiences nagivating the world of work as a Black LGBTQ woman leader.
• The Essential Podcast previously interviewed Coqual Executive Vice President Julia Taylor Kennedy on belonging at work and the business case for equity and inclusion. 

The Essential Podcast is edited and produced by Molly Mintz.