EP21: Sponsorship and Equitable Access to Development in the Workplace - with Dr. Rubina Malik

Work Dope is a podcast on the messiness, and the potential, of humans, at work. In this episode, I chat with Dr. Rubina F. Malik. Rubina is a strategic advisor and a thought leader skilled at helping organizations looking for guidance on how best to engage, develop, retain, and promote the right candidates to move into top leadership roles.

Rubina is also a scholar (who teaches at Morehouse College, Atlanta GA) with a professional background in human resources, training and professional development, coupled with ten years of research, coaching and teaching experience. Learn more about Rubina’s work at https://rubinafmalik.com/ and here in the EBN article referenced in this episode, https://www.benefitnews.com/news/rubina-malik-on-upskilling-and-equity-in-the-workplace.

Rubina and I talk about:

• Corporate sponsorship and the training programs Rubina brings to organizations in order to do two key things
  • Upskill leaders so they understand the power of sponsorship
  • Upskill high potential individual contributors so they can be seen as obvious candidates for sponsorship towards leadership
• Rubina’s background and what brought her to this work… 
• What’s important to Rubina in terms of how she knows she’s valued in her professional environments

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