Opportunity
Who receives stretch work, enterprise exposure, decision authority, and assignments that become evidence of next-level readiness?
IRB Under Review · Approval Pending
Black senior leadership in technology
From proven performance to executive authority.
BeVISIBLE™ examines what happens after Black professionals enter technology: who gains consequential assignments, candid developmental insight, sponsorship, credible visibility, network access, and the organizational support needed to advance.
Applied Doctoral Project by Jack Darnell GivensDeveloping a Strategic Advisory Framework to Advance Black Senior Leadership in the Technology Industry: The BeVISIBLE™ Alliance Model
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Research milestone
Doctoral proposal approved
A major milestone. A bigger purpose. The work continues.
The doctoral committee approved the proposal. The doctoral chair has submitted the IRB package; approval remains pending. Recruitment and interviews have not begun.
Follow the research journeyThe problem being studied
Entry into technology is not the same as advancement.
The research focuses on the transition from proven performance to greater authority.
Executive-readiness judgments reflect a record built over time: consequential assignments, candid feedback, sponsorship, visible authority, and access to influential networks. The project examines who receives those opportunities before a promotion decision is made.
Representation context
In the EEOC’s analysis of 2022 high-tech sector data, Black employees held 7.6% of sector jobs, 4% of first- and mid-level official and manager positions, and 3% of executive and senior official and manager positions. These figures describe workforce composition, not promotion rates. Read the EEOC report, opens in a new tab.
Development
Who receives specific feedback, comparable standards, and a credible opportunity to act on what the next level requires?
Advocacy
Who receives advice, who receives active sponsorship, and whose readiness is represented in consequential talent decisions?
A visual introduction
The work in seven branded views.
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Explore the work
One doctoral project, four connected paths.
The Framework and Alliance Model show two views of the proposed work. Research explains the study. RoleBright is planned for a later stage of the doctoral project.
Framework
Eight proposed dimensions
Explore how leader strategy and organizational conditions are considered within the developing framework.
Explore the framework ModelThree connected lenses
Examine the leader, the alliance of advocates, and the organization that allocates opportunity and authority.
See the Alliance Model ResearchIRB under review
Follow the completed proposal defense, submitted IRB package, pending approval, planned interviews, and evidence boundaries.
Explore the research Later-stage featureRoleBright
See the planned doctoral-project feature that will translate selected concepts into evidence-grounded career workflows without treating product outcomes as research findings.
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Practitioner-scholar
Jack Darnell Givens, MBA
Technology leadership experience shaped the question, not the answer.
Jack Darnell Givens brings more than two decades of technology program management and enterprise transformation experience to the project. The applied doctoral research is designed to examine practitioner assumptions against scholarship and, after required approvals, participant accounts.
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