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When We Are Seen

How to Come Into Your Power—and Empower Others Along the Way

by Denise Young
Denise Young
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From one of the first and few women of color to reach the C-suite in Silicon Valley, Apple’s former chief of HR and first VP of inclusion and diversity, comes a heartfelt story of growing up Black and female in a world with little regard for either and a practical road map for embodying the best in yourself and emboldening others along the way.
“You will enjoy reading this book and benefit as a business leader but mostly as a member of the human race.”—Ron Johnson, business leader Apple, Target, JCPenney
For her work as a co-creator of the Apple Store cultural experience, Denise Young has been deemed by leadership experts as one of the most emotionally intelligent leaders of her era. In this stirring narrative, part-memoir, part blueprint for action, she shares her vision of what it means to be truly seen at our places of work. As a “first and only” woman of color in boardrooms and leading roles across the Bay Area’s booming tech industry, Denise was a trailblazer in a business that was never built for her. The first black and female senior executive under both Steve Jobs and Tim Cook, Denise was often in “the room where it happened.” But within a white male-centric professional culture, she still had to work harder, smarter, and differently to be heard.
In When We Are Seen, Denise shares insights on using your own story, empathy, and intuition to unlock the potential in yourself and others. Her story serves as both solace and strategy for anyone who has ever felt left out, unseen, or ostracized; anyone interested in upending cycles of exclusion; and for those interested in reclaiming our agency in the ongoing quest to thrive and belong.
Denise argues that bringing your truest self to work—from wearing your beloved locs to sharing your artistic passion—and, in turn, holistically seeing the attributes others have to offer is not a passive experience; it is a specific skill we can and should build. And the result is a deeper understanding of what it means to be inclusive and powerfully human on the job.

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    May 21, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9780593868911
      • File size: 248719 KB
      • Duration: 08:38:09

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    • English

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 25, 2024
      Young debuts with a stirring account of her 21-year career in human resources at Apple, during which she became the company’s first Black female senior executive. She recounts the loneliness she felt in the C-suite surrounded by “people who could not fathom my childhood rooted in a Jim Crow South,” and laments the foot-dragging she faced from white colleagues when she headed the company’s DEI program. Opining on how workplaces can better support employees, Young emphasizes the importance of flexibility and recalls how a team unfairly denied the request of their coworker, who was a single mom, to postpone a morning meeting so she would have time to drop off her children at school. Business leaders must take an active role in addressing inequities, Young contends, lauding Steve Jobs for spontaneously creating a position at Apple for Spelman College’s engineering dean to recruit Black engineers for the company after the dean, on a tour of the corporate campus, struck up a conversation with the CEO. Unlike many other DEI volumes, this book defends inclusivity as an end in itself, rather than a means to higher retention or profits. While Young’s harshest critiques of Apple sometimes shy away from specifics, what comes through is her resilience. This stands out in the crowded field of business memoirs.

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