It was a huge event, and when I was done the CEO told me: “This is excellent! But there are more than forty of us here, plus the guys in videoconference, and I couldn’t help but think 'How did you get here?'” “I took a plane, of course.” He laughed. “Please, forgive me. I just have never seen a black woman such as yourself leading a meeting such as this one.” And that was when I started questioning: why were there no other black people in the meeting?