Book Club

  1. Thirty Seven

    In 2019 I attended a conference in Washington DC for African Americans in the Footwear industry. The sea of black talent in one a single room wa...
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  2. What's in a Name?

    Back in the olden days a rite of passage was getting a check book for your bank account. I was officially a teenager and my mother wanted me to le...
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  3. Are You Directing, Managing or Both?

    As a design director at Nike I fully understood my role. There were shoes to design, branding to maintain, expense reports to sign and marketing...
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  4. Getting in the Game

    Without question there will be 6,453 versions of everything that happened at Nike at any given point. 72% of these stories are true. It’s all pe...
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  5. Future Archives

    That’s my grandfather on the far right. He was part of a semi-pro Negro League team sponsored by National Cash Register. This photo was taken duri...
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  6. Scared Money Don't Make Money

    Ugly shoes and skinny jeans had the same cycle as retro shoes and expensive denim. Large waves start out as small ripples with a lot of pushback...
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