Our Separate Ways, with a New Preface and Epilogue: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity

Ella Bell Smith is a professor of business administration at Tuck School of Business and works in the field of organizational behavior. She has served as a consultant to Fortune 500 companies and to many public institutions. Her scholarly works have been reported in many top publications, and her book, Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity, has been widely acclaimed. Her second book, Career GPS: Strategies for Women Navigating the New Corporate Landscape, provides career and life advice. Smith serves on the advisory board of MAKERS and is a past member of the board of directors of Coqual. Her innovative work with women leaders earned her the Scholarly Contributions for Educational Practice Advancing Women in Leadership Award from the Gender and Diversity Division of the Academy of Management. She is the founder and president of Ascent: Leading Multicultural Women to the Top. Stella M. Nkomo is a professor in the Department of Human Resource Management at the University of Pretoria. Her internationally recognized research on race, gender, diversity, and leadership in organizations has been published in numerous journals. Nkomo is the coauthor, with Ella Bell Smith, of Our Separate Ways. She is a sought-after speaker and consultant to organizations in South Africa, Europe, and the United States. She was the founding president of the Africa Academy of Management and the recipient of the 2017 International Leadership Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

You can find Ella Bell Smith at:
twitter.com/ascentisleading
faculty.tuck.dartmouth.edu/ella-bell

You can find Stella M. Nkomo at:
linkedin.com/in/stella-nkomo-23a8a51b
centreforglobalinclusion.org/The-Centre/stella-m-nkomo