Episode 99: Elevating Your Visibility with Facebook’s Suezette Yasmin Robotham

Visibility matters. How can we expect to change the world if we’re invisible? That’s what we will discuss in this episode featuring Suezette Yasmin Robotham, who is a passionate advocate for visibility and authenticity as a catalyst for change.

Suezette is a DEI practitioner, speaker, connector, coach, and a leading “Black Woman in Tech”. She currently leads Diversity Programs on the Global Product & Software Engineering Recruiting team at Facebook. Suezette has more than a decade of leadership experience, with expertise in talent acquisition, diversity & inclusion initiatives, leadership development, strategic planning and relationship building across various industry sectors. Suezette also founded a platform created to amplify the voices of Black Women in Tech and beyond, called #BlackTechBeauty in 2020.

 

Highlights:

[03:26] Suezette’s journey

[15:25] Building relationships

[20:55] Advice on landing a role in Big Tech

[22:18] Articulating the transferability of your skills

[26:19] Overcoming limiting beliefs

[30:32] Finding your community

[33:42] Suezette’s daily success habits

[36:44] Advice on accelerating success in the digital age

[40:09] Black Tech Beauty

 

Quotes:

“Be grateful for your process and trust in that process.” – Suezette Yasmin Robotham

“Assess the company landscape and gain an understanding of who are the people that you have an opportunity to learn from.” - Suezette Yasmin Robotham

“Owning who you are authentically can help you overcome imposter syndrome and increase your confidence.” - Suezette Yasmin Robotham

“Ensure that your LinkedIn profile evokes someone to want to know more.” – Suezette Yasmin Robotham

“The best investment you can make is an investment in yourself.” – Suezette Yasmin Robotham

 

About Suezette Yasmin Robotham:

Suezette Yasmin Robotham is a DEI practitioner, speaker, connector, coach, and a leading “Black Woman in Tech.”

She has more than a decade of leadership experience, with expertise in talent acquisition, diversity & inclusion initiatives, leadership development, strategic planning and relationship building across various industry sectors. Over her career, she has contributed her work to large urban school districts, such as Atlanta Public Schools and Metro Nashville Public Schools, as well as education reform organizations that include Teach For America, The New Teacher Project and The Achievement Network. She previously served as the lead Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Program Manager on the Google Search & Assistant team; and currently leads Diversity Programs on the Global Product & Software Engineering Recruiting team at Facebook. Suezette also founded a platform created to amplify the voices of Black Women in Tech and beyond, called #BlackTechBeauty in 2020.

Suezette has been tapped as a speaker by a number of organizations across the U.S. and Canada for her thought leadership in authenticity in the workplace and diversity and inclusion, and she has been a featured TEDx Speaker (TEDxBeaconStreet 2015). Suezette is passionate about the power that can be realized in spaces where vulnerability, empathy and authenticity are encouraged, and she is devoted to using her talents to connect others – whether individuals or organizations – to the people, opportunities and resources that will help them realize, access and achieve their highest potential. Suezette is also a TNJ 40 Under Forty 2019 Honoree.

An alumna of the University of Florida and the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, Suezette currently lives, works, and plays in Brooklyn.

Her words to live by: “You were brave before you were born.”-Her Mommy

 

Links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suezette/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suezette/ & https://www.instagram.com/blacktechbeauty/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/11Zette17