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 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
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 series of facilitated sessions 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. What Got Us Here: Legacy and Excellence NSBE has long been committed to realizing it's purpose through its vision and mission. NSBE Vision - We envision a world in which engineering is a mainstream word in homes and communities of color, and all Black students can envision themselves as engineers. In this world, Blacks exceed parity in entering engineering fields, earning degrees, and succeeding professionally. NSBE Mission - The mission of the National Society of Black Engineers is "to increase the number of culturally responsible Black Engineers who excel academically, succeed professionally and positively impact the community." At this critical time with a shifting landscape and a well equipped and seasoned leadership corps, NSBE faces the challenge of asking a fundamental question: Will what got us here, take us there? 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, academic 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 build and embrace 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 - how can it innovate, experiment and refine new ways o ering its distinctive value and support 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.
inequality; and unprecedented
financial shock waves - the clear crescendo is disruption.
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
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