{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Ep. 28: Dr. Isaac Addae: Embracing the Uncomfortable in Order to Fly","description":" \u201cIt\u2019s a diverse world. Companies sell products to consumers that are very diverse. Their teams and technical talent should reflect the communities that they sell products to.\u201d \u2013 Dr. Isaac Yao Addae Dr. Isaac Addae is a man with many hats \u2013 first-generation Ghanaian American, computer engineer, strategist, business professor, entrepreneur, investor, and author of \u201cBlack Boy Fly: Embracing My Ancestry, Blackness, and Purpose in the African Diaspora.\u201d  Isaac also served as the Treasurer for Freddie O\u2019Connell\u2019s mayoral campaign, and now has agreed to wear yet another hat as the \u201cSmall and Minority Business Engagement Liaison\u201d for Nashville. Listen in as Isaac shares how he came to Nashville, why he will always spend a significant amount of time as an educator, how navigating two worlds as a Ghanaian American became his superpower, and why we should all care about diversity, equity, inclusion and justice in the workforce.  Also learn why Isaac\u2019s new role will be one of his biggest challenges yet, and about how some of the plans being put into motion in the Mayor\u2019s Office are likely to move the needle for small and minority-owned businesses.  Isaac also makes a unique, compelling case for how Nashville can adjust the lens that the rest of the world views Nashville through and emerge as an increasingly ascendant tech hub. ","author_name":"Climbing the Charts with Angie Lawless and Brandon Miller","author_url":"https:\/\/sites.libsyn.com\/424508","html":"