George Washington Carver is famous for discovering 300 uses for the peanut and almost 200 for the sweet potato. In 1894 he was the first Black man to receive a Bachelors’ degree from what would later be known as Iowa State University. When Booker T. Washington invited Carver to The Tuskegee Institute, Carver took it as an opportunity to fulfill the charge of his “Aunt” Moriah who told him to “Give your learning back to your people.” Dr. Karen shares seven powerful executive leadership lessons from his brilliant life.
In 1773 Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American woman to publish a book of poetry. In 1761 Slave traders captured Phillis in the Gambia when she was seven years old. The traders then sold her to the Wheatley family in Boston. She quickly learned English, Latin, Greek, Astronomy, Geography, and many other subjects. Her brilliant intellect and writing gave her audiences before dignitaries in Europe and the US. Yet her life ended in tragedy from which Dr. Karen extracts three crucial lessons for executives.
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