Tiana Clark
Adjunct Professor of Executive Education
Tiana is a sought-after speaker, panelist, and contributor for organizations such as The Tory Burch Foundation, Upwork, Amazon Web Services, The Urban League, Microsoft, and more. She's been featured in several publications, including The New York Times, and The Economist.
As a global corporate tech leader, she created her own positions at two Fortune Top 10 companies, including building Microsoft's first-ever and best-in-class U.S. Services Sales University. She also served on the Blacks at Microsoft Chicago leadership team.
She holds a Master of Science in Educational Leadership and Bachelor of Science in Political Science with a minor in African-American studies.
Tiana S. Clark grew up orphaned in the murder capital of the world and harnessed her innate power to manifest her trajectory. She has always had the audacity to make her own way, defy the odds, and follow her inner wisdom, and she empowers others to do the same.
She audaciously joined the military when people laughed at her and said she was too girly. As a former military intelligence sergeant, she's flown an F-15 fighter jet over England, briefed international generals at the Pentagon, led U.S. war target strategy, and won Airman of the Year - the most prestigious award.
As an at-risk public-school teacher, she empowered the 8th grader who "couldn't read and flunked twice" to step into his power as the smartest kid in the class.
As a mom of four—and with no prior filmmaking experience –she created and executive-produced a Hollywood-award-winning web series to teach children to be more confident and inclusive.
As a nonprofit founder, her organization received an award from Big Brothers Big Sisters for recruiting hundreds of mentors for their long waiting list of underserved youth.
Tiana currently serves on two school boards, K-8 & Higher Ed; is an Adjunct Professor of Executive Education at Northwestern University Kellogg Sales Institute; and is the founder of Audacious Academy, a career advisory program empowering corporate professionals of color to reclaim their greatness and own their careers with audacity.
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Selling Yourself and Your Ideas (LDEV-477-0)
It's been said that humans are "meaning making machines." More than 70,000 years ago, near the outset of the Cognitive Revolution, we created language to help protect and organize ourselves.1 Over the ensuing millennia, we have developed myriad ways to communicate with each other. Present day, our communications take many forms, and so we find ourselves in conversations, meetings, presentations, and even as producers on social media. As business leaders, we move through these many forms of communications in the course of a week, and indeed we can even traverse each of them within one day. In order to be dynamic, high-performing communicators, we must do three things: 1. Be cognizant of what high performance looks like in each of these distinct modes of communication; 2. Develop a situational awareness for how to succeed in each form; and 3. Become agile in calibrating our approach. Selling Yourself & Your Ideas is a course that will force you out of your comfort zone to help you show up, stand out, and break through. You will develop the knowledge, skills, and disciplines you need to be a powerful and influential communicator, no matter the situation in which you find yourself.
