121: How To Get Out Of Your Own Way & Step Into Your Power w/ Jotaka Eaddy

Black to Business

Name: Jotaka Eaddy

Business Name: The Full Circle Strategy

Current Title: Founder and CEO

Location: Washington DC

About Jotaka:

Jotaka Eaddy is an award-winning strategist, advocate and connector who Forbes Magazine describes as the “Olivia Pope of Silicon Valley.” With more than 20 years of experience in policy, advocacy, and movement building, Jotaka is a highly sought after speaker and strategist whose accomplishments include: her trailblazing election as the Univeristy of South Carolina’s first Black Woman Student Body President, her groundbreaking work that led to the abolition of the juvenile death penalty in America though the 2005 landmark US Supreme Court decision in Roper Vs Simmons, and her pivotal leadership as Senior Advisor to the NAACP where she led Initiatives to expand and defend voting rights through state legislative wins and executive orders, all before her bold and successful transition to the C- suite of Silicon Valley and the private sector.

As the Founder and CEO of Full Circle Strategies, LLC -, Jotaka leads a team of individuals committed to advancing transformative change and global impact for clients, including corporate, non-profit, foundations, technology, and government organizations seeking to advance policy, ideas, and change. Her clients and work include advising Oprah Winfrey: OWN Network’s award-winning OWN Your Vote Campaign; advising and managing external strategies to engage diverse communities for global telecom firms; and supporting the expansion of tech policy and platform changes aimed at increasing inclusive tech for some of the world’s largest tech companies and venture firms; among others.

DURING THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

• The power of community and boosting confidence
• How to deal with self-doubt and imposter syndrome
• How to deal with failure
• Tips for driving impact

For complete show notes and resources mentioned for this episode go to: blacktobusiness.com/121

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