Jacquie Abram
SHE / HER / HERS
Jacquie Abram is a DEI / Anti-racism Consultant and the international best-selling, award-winning author of Hush Money: How One Woman Proved Systemic Racism in Her Workplace and Kept Her Job, based on true events from her former career in higher education. She has been featured in Forbes, Yahoo News, CBS, and NBC, is an Amazon #1 Best-Seller, and is the recipient of the Readers Favorite gold medal for social issues novels.
Authenticity, Integrity, and Humility
Popular Talks
The Impact of Racism in the Workplace on the Organization
In this session, we explore the impact that racism in the workplace has on employee retention, organizational finances, employee health, and the organization’s reputation.
The Importance of Antiracism and DEI in the Workplace
In this session, we explore the importance of including antiracism practices in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion trainings and programs.
Strategies to Respond to Microaggressions and Bias
In this session, we break down common microaggressions and biases that often mask racism in the workplace and identify healthy ways to respond.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=361sB8FH3nY
Workshops
The Impact of Racism in the Workplace on the Organization
In this session, we explore the impact that racism in the workplace has on employee retention, organizational finances, employee health, and the organization’s reputation.
The Importance of Antiracism and DEI in the Workplace
In this session, we explore the importance of including antiracism practices in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion trainings and programs.
Strategies to Respond to Microaggressions and Bias
In this session, we break down common microaggressions and biases that often mask racism in the workplace and identify healthy ways to respond.
Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace
In this session, we breakdown what diversity, equity, and inclusion really means and examine the pillars an organization must have in place to successfully promote and maintain DEI.
Racism in the Workplace: Overt or Covert?
In this session, we discuss the difference between overt and covert racism and the impact of each on the organization and its employees.
“Personally, I’ve had the honor of working with Jacquie directly, and her level of empathy is unmatched which makes her the type of person you’re always looking forward to speaking or listening to. The bravery it took for Jacquie and her daughters to write this compelling and revealing account is commendable. I chose to work with Jacquie after hearing her speak in an interview. She is authentic, passionate about helping others, and truly inspiring. She is the ideal speaker to bring a real approach to any program that values impacting behavior, not just awareness, as a learning and development outcome. Written with nuance, detail, and emotion, Hush Money isn’t just a story with a message; it is a rare insight into the actual IMPACT that workplace trauma causes in individuals and organizations. More importantly, it is an instructional GPS for navigating and surviving this trauma and ultimately empowers individuals and organizations to create better work environments.”
— Latrice Torres, Owner, LeaderKeys Consulting, LLC
“Moms Allyship Against Racism was honored to have as a guest, International best-selling author Jacquie Abrams on our platform! She brought a wealth of knowledge and wisdom to our combined allyship communities of 6K members, which also includes Canada.
The topics of racism in the workplace for black woman has never been properly addressed… Until now!
We appreciated her heartfelt honesty and transparency in sharing the fictional accounts of the main character “Ebony” (in her book HUSH MONEY), as well as her own story and the many personal pitfalls and challenges that she’s overcome in order to write her first book. She held nothing back, a great guest who kept us engaged and in awe!
– Renita Thomas-Franklin, Owner, Mom’s Allyship Against Racism
“Jacquie Abram’s book “Hush Money” is a must-read for all people in the workplace: Black people can learn how to go from victim to victor as Ebony does.
Non Black people can learn to recognize how we are all steeped in anti-Blackness, what our harmful behavior is, and stop, and how to be an effective success partner to Black people in the workplace.
Executives: unless Black colleagues are explicitly telling you otherwise, assume they are experiencing the harm Ebony is. Listen to your Black colleagues and fire the racists to protect their wellbeing and your company from financial and reputation risk.
Podcast hosts: I highly recommend interviewing Jacquie, she has tremendous helpful information to share and is eloquent and thoughtful.”
– Karen Fleshman, Esq., Owner, Unifying SF for SF Unified
- Traveling from Midwest, USA
Jacquie Abram is the international best-selling and award-winning author of Hush Money: How One Woman Proved Systemic Racism in her Workplace and Kept her Job. She has been featured in Forbes, Yahoo News, CBS, and NBC, is an Amazon #1 Best Seller, and is the recipient of the Readers Favorite gold medal for social issues novels.
Before Jacquie began her journey as an author and DEI / Anti-racism Consultant, she had a career in higher education that paid a lucrative income to a single mother of two girls. A career that spanned nearly two decades and by any measure should’ve been a successful career. But it wasn’t. Because throughout her career, she experienced racism in the workplace, and not the kind you see in a lot of movies, books, and TVs shows about racism that occurred decades ago during a time when it was more overt and easily spotted, but the kind of racism that is more covert, hidden, and harder to prove.
After Jacquie’s career was derailed multiple times by multiple employers and she suffered racial trauma that was so severe she considered homicide and suicide, she pulled herself out of corporate America, wrote Hush Money, a book inspired by true events and co-authored by her daughters, self-published it, and sold it from the trunk of her car at parks and pop-up shops. Today, Hush Money continues to be read in numerous countries around the world and has achieved the following:
International Best-Selling & Award-Winning book Featured in Forbes
- #1 Best Seller (Amazon)
- #1 in Best Eye-Opening African American Women’s Fiction (Goodreads Listopia)
- #1 in Books to Build Up Your Social Justice Literacy: Racism (Goodreads Listopia)
- #1 in Mixed Race Representation (Goodreads Listopia)
Gold Medal Recipient for Social Issues Novels (Readers’ Favorite)
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