NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS
OUR PRELUDE
GAME-CHANGE 2025 CATAPULTING BLACK ENGINEERS TO TRANSFORM STEM & SOCIETY
Transformation. The Year 2020 may well go down in
Game-Change 2025: For A New World Being Born Plain and simple. For NSBE and the world, it is time to make a change - a GAME-CHANGE! Based on a powerful time with NSBE’s exceptionally configured Strategic Planning Taskforce (SPTF), our empirical investigations and powerful conversations with NSBE’s stakeholders, we believe both its members and the World are asking NSBE a fundamentally new and di erent set of questions. Be More, Do Di erently In the face of all these profound changes, how can NSBE BE MORE of who it is at its deepest core - a safe haven, a launching pad, a profound, life-changing professional community that unlocks potential, cultivates confidence and changes lives? In addition, as NSBE members confront profound needs for learning agility, grit, and spaces for renewal to succeed as Engineers, NSBE will have to evolve more inclusive ways to document members’ needs to help them thrive in the evolving Engineering and STEM workplaces. NSBE is also being asked how it can DO DIFFERENTLY - innovate, experiment and ultimately rapidly refine new ways of being and o ering its distinctive value and signature supports to its members and stakeholders. New Callings: Solution-Finders, Change Agents and Community Builders Finally and perhaps ultimately, we believe NSBE is being called to be and do more than create technically-proficient, Black engineers and diverse STEM talent. We see NSBE positioned to build generations of solution-finders, change agents and community builders able to cycle back into the waiting worlds of the beautiful (but sometimes beleaguered) Black communities from which its talent members are drawn, and also into the broader World stage where their gifts of imagination, diversity and unique leaderly presence will enliven the broader industry. The following Strategic Plan (we creatively called Strategic Articulation Map) is a down payment and point of entry into all the game-changing realities of a New World being born. Jocelyn Jackson, Chair, National Board, National Society of Black Engineers Karl W. Reid, Ed.D, Executive Director, National Society of Black Engineers C. Milano Harden, President & CEO, The Genius Group/TGG Reggie Hammond, Senior Strategist, The Genius Group/TGG Auston Kennedy, Shanice Shaunders, D’Andre Waller, Research Associates, The Genius Group/TGG
American and world history as a societal inflection point - a
moment of dramatic social change. When you add up the life-changing events - a worldwide pandemic; incalculable human losses; multi-city and world-wide protests; an inescapable awareness of persistent racial and economic inequality; and unprecedented financial shock waves - the clear crescendo is disruption.
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