Minda Harts
2x Best-Selling Author of The Memo & Right Within | LinkedIn Top Voice | Keynote Speaker | NYU Professor | Chief Trust Officer
New York, New York, United States
76K followers
500+ connections
About
Minda Harts is a bestselling and award-winning author, workplace advocate, and thought leader in self-advocacy and trust restoration. Her books, including The Memo, Right Within, and You Are More Than Magic, have empowered countless professionals to advocate for themselves and create lasting change in their careers.
As a highly sought-after speaker, Minda delivers transformative talks on self-advocacy, trust, and courageous leadership. She has presented at major conferences and worked with Fortune 100 and 500 companies to create empowering workplace cultures.
Minda is an assistant professor of public service at NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and the founder of The Memo LLC, a career development company. Her forthcoming book, Talk To Me Nice, focuses on restoring trust in the workplace, a critical issue in today’s evolving work environment.
Recognized for her impact, Minda was named LinkedIn’s #1 Top Voice in the Workplace in 2020 and one of Business Insider’s Top 100 People Transforming Business in 2022. She also hosts Secure the Seat, a weekly career podcast offering practical advice and inspiration for professionals navigating their careers.
Learn more about Minda and connect with her at www.mindaharts.com.
Experience
Publications
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How to Feel Happier at Work When You Have the Urge to Quit
New York Times
Tips on how to feel happy at work when you feel the urge to quit.
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How to define success on your own terms
VOX
My conversation today is with Minda Harts, whose writing and podcast Secure the Seat finds pathways for young people of color, especially women of color, to succeed in spaces that weren’t built for them. My hope is that Minda’s clear guidance can help you to consider the ways that your workplace could be more open, more accessible, and more flexible to people of all kinds of experiences.
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What White People Need To Know About Racial Trauma In The Workplace
Forbes
Minda Harts is the author of Right Within: How to Heal from Racial Trauma in the Workplace, selected by TIME as one of the eight new books of October 2021 you should read. I spoke to her about this incredibly important topic—what is it like to be a Black person in today’s workplace, and what does that mean for your experience at work and your mental workload?
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BESTSELLING AUTHOR MINDA HARTS DISCUSSES HOW MANAGERS CAN DISMANTLE WORKPLACE TRAUMA
Black Enterprise
As CEO of The Memo LLC, Minda Harts has been advocating for women of color and endeavoring to dismantle racism in the workplace her whole career.
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Diversity at work starts with concrete goals. This manager’s pledge provides an easy starting point
Fast Company
Without manager support, women of color often aren’t thought of for stretch assignments, and so are denied opportunities for growth. Managers could do more to advocate for employees of color by noticing if they are being socially isolated and working to help them navigate office politics.
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Here Are the 8 New Books You Should Read in October
Time
The best new books arriving this month dive deep into a range of topics, from a wrenching portrait of homelessness and poverty in America to the dissection of a marriage and its eventual unraveling
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LinkedIn Top Voices 2020: Equity in the Workplace
Linkedin
LinkedIn News is debuting our 6th annual Top Voices list, a collection of hundreds of experts driving today’s professional conversation. As COVID-19 continues to upend our lives, these members are using their voice to help us parse today’s changing world of work, navigate our industries and find balance through it all.
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Why Black Women Need To Stop Depending On White Allies
Forbes
Black women in the workplace being allies for each other.
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Women are drowning in unpaid labor at home. Stop making them do it at work
Fast Company
Minda Harts, Sarah Lacy, and Eve Rodsky make a case that companies should pay women and BIPOC for their unpaid labor in employee resource groups that help make their workplaces more inclusive.
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Dear Black Women: Always Know Your Worth
"WE'RE IN DEMAND RIGHT NOW. WE DON'T HAVE TO SIT AROUND AND TOLERATE JUST ANYTHING ANYMORE,” SAYS MINDA HARTS, CEO OF THE MEMO.
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40 Top Women Keynote Speakers For 2020
Real Leaders
If you’re a leader looking for someone to inspire your team, or for a notable person to motivate your company during tough times, these highly-focused, professional women will help take things to the next level.
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40 Top Women Keynote Speakers For 2020
Real Leaders
40 Top Women Keynote Speakers For 2020. Minda was named number 15.
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How corporate America’s diversity initiatives continue to fail Black women
CNBC
Being a woman in corporate America comes with its fair share of challenges, often facing gender discrimination and bias in the workplace. But, if you’re a Black woman, or woman of color, these gender-based challenges are often compounded by obstacles of racism, making it even harder to navigate your way to the top.
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Survive, thrive and advance with these workplace strategies for women of color
New Day Northwest
Survive, thrive and advance with these workplace strategies for women of color - New Day Northwest
Minda Harts talks working across differences, equal pay, representation, and doing good to do well in her new strategic guidebook, "The Memo." -
Women Of Color Work Empowerment
NPR Here And Now
Tonya Mosley speaks with Minda Harts, author of "The Memo: What Women of Color Need To Know To Secure A Seat At ...
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SHARE THIS — COPIED!
MSNBC Morning Joe
Author Minda Harts discusses her book 'The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table.'
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Workplace Advice For Women of Color Beyond 'Lean In'
KQED
Women of color experience higher gender pay gaps than white women, according to the Institute for Women's Policy Research. Minda Harts, founder of the career education site The Memo, says advice books aimed at working women, such as Sheryl Sandberg’s "Lean In," fail to recognize the unique obstacles facing women of color. Tired of not seeing her experience reflected, she decided to write her own advice book, "The Memo: What Women of Color Need To Know to Secure a Seat at the Table." Hart joins…
Women of color experience higher gender pay gaps than white women, according to the Institute for Women's Policy Research. Minda Harts, founder of the career education site The Memo, says advice books aimed at working women, such as Sheryl Sandberg’s "Lean In," fail to recognize the unique obstacles facing women of color. Tired of not seeing her experience reflected, she decided to write her own advice book, "The Memo: What Women of Color Need To Know to Secure a Seat at the Table." Hart joins Forum to share what she's learned about how women of color can survive and thrive in the workplace.
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How to Win at Taking Your Child to Work
NY Times
It seems like a great idea, but there’s potential for disaster. Here are tips to get you and your kids through the day.
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27 Podcasts That Helped Us Thrive in 2018
Thrive Global
Boost your success and happiness just by listening.
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12 Speakers Who Will Inspire You in 2019
Thrive Global
Here’s a list of knockout speakers who truly shine onstage, and inspire us to take our own leap by getting up in front of an audience and sharing our story.
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Why leaning in has not worked for women of color
Fast Company
The Memo’s Minda Harts makes the case that Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In manifesto ignored the systemic obstacles that women of color face.
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How To Negotiate For Equal Pay, According To Twenty Black Women Leaders
Forbes
When it comes to black women’s success and potential, the story is one of underestimated richness and underdeveloped but rapidly emerging power.
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5 black women talk starting salaries, being underpaid and how they asked for more
CNBC
Equal Pay Day, the symbolic annual reminder of how far women have to work into the new year to earn the same pay white men earned the previous year, took place this year on April 10th.
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8 BEST JOB SEARCHING AND CAREER WEBSITES FOR PEOPLE OF COLOR
Black Enterprise
8 BEST JOB SEARCHING AND CAREER WEBSITES FOR PEOPLE OF COLOR
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The Crucial Job Skill You’re Waiting Way Too Long To Develop
Fast Company
Public Speaker as a leadership skill.
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I'm Tired of White Women As the Face of Career Development
Lenny Letter
Changing the face of career development.
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A Seat at the Table
Ellevate Network
Now more than ever diverse representation plays a key role in creating a successful workplace. Seeing people who look like you in the C-Suite, makes a huge difference.
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Equal Pay Day: Women Rally Against Wage Gap, Workplace Discrimination
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/equal-pay-day-women-rally-against-wage-gap-workplace-discrimination-n742451
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Progress Personified: Minda Harts' journey from homeless teen to career coach
The Guardian
After overcoming adversity early in her life, Harts is now focusing on helping other women get a seat at the boardroom table. Paid for by Principal
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Meet Your Career Dream Team
Essence Magazine
Mentor, Shmentor. These are the new advisers every professional woman needs in her corner
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The Memo
New York City
The Memo is devoted to helping women gain access to important resources and pragmatic real-world advice on personal finances, career development and work/life balance that will help us advance in our professional and personal lives.
Projects
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#SECURETHESEAT Podcast
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A weekly podcast that helps women of color Secure their seat at the Table!
Honors & Awards
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LinkedIn Top Voices 2020: Equity in the Workplace
Linkedin
LinkedIn Top Voices 2020: Equity in the Workplace: #1 Top Voice.
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2020 AAMBC Award in the category of Non Fiction/Self Help Book of the Year
AAMBC
Non Fiction/Self Help Book of the Year for The Memo: What Women of Color Need To Know To Secure A Seat At The Table.
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SHS Distinguished Alumni Award
Sterling High School
Received The Distinguished Alumni Award for 2020.
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Aspen Ideas Festival Scholar 2019
Aspen Institute
Aspen Ideas Scholar in Aspen, Colorado
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2018 American Express Emerging Innovator
https://emerginginnovators.ashoka.org/en#about
The American Express Leadership Academy Emerging Innovators Bootcamps are 2-3 day intensive training for social entrepreneurs and changemakers who can benefit from expert guidance, peer support, and a safe space to reflect on inner growth and wellbeing. 25 Emerging Innovators are chosen to participate.
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Alumni of Points of Light Civic Accelerator
http://cvcx.org/cohort-10/
The Points of Light Civic Accelerator "CivicX" is the first national accelerator program and investment fund in the country focused on "civic ventures" -- for-profit and nonprofit early-stage ventures that include people as part of the solution to critical social problems. The 10-week, boot camp-style program convenes 10-15 teams in person and online with the goal of equipping each venture to seek investments and scale their social innovation.
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