NSBE Strategic Articulation Vision Level DRAFT

NSBE Strategic Articulation Vision Level DRAFT

STRATEGIC ARTICULATION MAP nsbe.org

OUR PURPOSE // What we will do to get there

TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF

CULTURALLY RESPONSIBLE BLACK ENGINEERS

WHO

EXCEL ACADEMICALLY

SUCCEED PROFESSIONALLY

POSITIVELY IMPACT THE COMMUNITY

VISION // What we want to see

WE ENVISION A WORLD IN WHICH ENGINEERING IS A MAINSTREAM WORD

IN HOMES AND COMMUNITIES OF COLOR, AND

ALL BLACK STUDENTS CAN ENVISION THEMSELVES AS ENGINEERS.

BLACKS EXCEED PARITY IN ENTERING

IN THIS WORLD,

ENGINEERING FIELDS, EARNING DEGREES, AND SUCCEEDING PROFESSIONALLY.

STRATEGIC VISION Summary from SPTF and NEB meetings to clarify NSBE’s identity and its impact

IDENTITY / NSBE’S WHO!!

IMPACT / NSBE’S DO!

• Normalize black excellence; • Provide Early academic and career exposure, Sisterhood and brotherhood; • Encourage members and stakeholders to appreciate and support Black identity.

SAFE HAVEN

• Present Black engineers as world-class problem solvers; • Provide local Chapters, which are the Arena of Action where the DO happens • Gives majority orgs access to black talent • Helps People of Color Engineers and STEM talent get through College - a critical juncture on the Community to Career Lifecycle • Community service • Common themes: Visibility, validation, and reinforcement

BEACON OF HOPE/ BRIDGE from community to college to workplace/career PREMIER ORGANIZATION for/of Black engineers

This SPTF small group took a novel angle to how NSBE expresses its IMPACT, they focused NSBE’s signature member engagement event that delivers to each member a summative picture of NSBE’s value. • Conventions are critical • Metrics are critical, like new convention attendees • In terms of member outreach “Go to convention” is important messaging

SAFE HAVEN that provides academic and professional support CAREER ADVANCEMENT PLATFORM

• A special, unique place where Black engineers - and by extension other People of Color talent - do not have to feel like unicorns - unusual or non-normative.

COMMUNITY

IDENTITY / NSBE’S WHO!!

IMPACT / NSBE’S DO!

• NSBE taking a more activist stance regarding members’ well-being at work • Community/family to combat feelings of isolation and tokenization • NSBE has the power to “raise the question” about climate and cultural conditions within the Engineering Space that have the potential to do harm to Black or Diverse Engineers

REPRESENTATIVE of and potentially ACTIVIST for the larger African American Engineering community and its special concerns.

• IMPACT/DO! - Raise awareness of STEM in K12. Incubate, connect, engage, equip, mentor, support in a safe environment that produces leaders and creates opportunity. • NICHE/HOOD - Build and nurture a ‘regionized’ Collegiate base around which all other stakeholders revolve.

At its core: NSBE is a like-minded yet diverse group of engineers committed to supporting and increasing Blacks/Diverse talent in engineering.

STRATEGIC DIRECTION

Corporate Career Entrepreneurship Academia

Graduate with a 3.20 GPA or better

Get into a good college or University STEM/Engineering Program

SOCIETY

Interest in STEM Engineering Computer Science

NSBE Professional Developed

THE ENGINEERING ACADEMIC JOURNEY College/University

Community Pre-collegiate Activities & Engagement

THE NSBE CONTINUUM

NEXT A NEW GO!

NEAR SET

NOW READY

Assumptions: How could NSBE DO LESS & BE MORE - OR - In year ONE prioritize DOING MORE WITH WHAT WE ALREADY HAVE

SCALE FAST

POTENTIAL FRAMEWORKS FOR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

START SMALL

THINK BIG

DRAFT STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS

10K

NSBE & BLACK ENGINEERS A HOUSEHOLD NAME

CLIMATE CHANGE / CULTURE SHIFT

NSBE INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADE

VISION SNAPSHOTS // When we want to see it

THINK BIG 2024

NSBE member who has gone into their career being named CEO

Nobel Peace Prize/Pulitzer Prize folks

NSBE members out there on networks like CNN giving talks on STEM being those go to persons

Every company, private, public would want to be a sponsor or a board member of NSBE

NSBE representative being that go to person but in a positive light

More engagement by more companies at the university level

Our stakeholders venture capital and technology companies

Getting 10,000 by 2025 and beyond

More NSBE members who are heads of global tech firms that are internationally noticed

Close the gap in the voice of that stakeholder

Every sector would be able to identify a NSBE person. Sitting on boards, sitting in CEO spots, professorial, and administration

Handshaking with world leaders and big decisions that are being made

THINK BIG 2024

NSBE featured or mentioned in prestigious events such as Kennedy Honors or Black Girls Rock (ie Dr. Frazier)

Engineering is an accessible and encouraged career

Being focused in STEM also being broadening, expanding the STEM space and STEAM

Engineering is a well-defined idea in communities of color

It's not just important for black kids to see black professors, it's just as important for white kids see black professors and their classroom.

Black students in engineering courses see themselves represented in faculty, sta and other students

START SMALL 2020

A formal outreach or communication to maybe a governing body of engineering tech schools or engineering presidents

I'd like to see more black faces in white places, speaking and engaging.

I’d love to see the NEB and some of the WHQ folks just putting on their calendars or beginning to chart out a schedule where they're doing listen and learns, going to some of these universities and setting up meetings directly with the deans

Showing up at people's schools and speaking, teaching chapters and both collegiate and professional about how to go about soliciting groups

Create some type of program or strategy towards helping those faculty and that academic sta that is currently in place now, to give them some type of support