Opportunity
Who receives stretch work, enterprise exposure, and assignments that later become evidence of next-level readiness?
Research Proposal in Progress
Black senior leadership in technology
From proven performance to executive authority.
BeVISIBLE™ examines what happens after Black professionals enter technology: who gains consequential assignments, candid developmental insight, sponsorship, credible visibility, network access, and the organizational support needed to advance.
Applied Doctoral Project by Jack Darnell GivensDeveloping a Strategic Advisory Framework to Advance Black Senior Leadership in the Technology Industry: The BeVISIBLE™ Alliance Model
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The problem being studied
Entry into technology is not the same as advancement.
The research focuses on the transition from proven performance to greater authority.
The project examines an advancement bottleneck where strong performance does not always lead to consequential assignments, candid feedback, sponsorship, visibility, or consideration for greater authority. It considers how relational and organizational conditions shape advancement after entry.
Advocacy
Who receives sponsorship, candid developmental feedback, and advocacy from people with influence in consequential decisions?
Systems
How do evaluation, succession, visibility, psychological safety, retention, and informal networks shape mobility after entry?
A visual introduction
The work in seven branded views.
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Explore the work
One doctoral project, four connected paths.
The Framework and Alliance Model show two views of the proposed work. Research explains the study. RoleBright is planned for a later stage of the doctoral project.
Framework
Eight proposed dimensions
Explore how leader strategy and organizational conditions are considered within the developing framework.
Explore the framework ModelThree connected lenses
Examine the leader, the alliance of advocates, and the organization that allocates opportunity and authority.
See the Alliance Model ResearchProposal in progress
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Explore the research PracticeRoleBright
See the separate practitioner application translating selected concepts into evidence-grounded career workflows.
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Practitioner-scholar
Jack Darnell Givens, MBA
Technology leadership experience shaped the question, not the answer.
Jack Darnell Givens brings more than two decades of technology program management and enterprise transformation experience to the project. The applied doctoral research is designed to examine practitioner assumptions against scholarship and, after required approvals, participant accounts.
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