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Howroyd Often Had White Colleagues Pitch to Sidestep Client Bias
“I'll tell you candidly, and I'm not proud of it, there were times when I would gift my intelligence to other members of my team and have them go in and make a presentation or them make the pitch. So that the client wouldn't have to interact directly with me as…”
Howroyd: Black Female Founders Face "Can We" Scrutiny Rather Than "How"
“I think the questioning and the scrutiny would be different. There would be more question of can we than how will we. Whereas if I sent someone different on my team in, the questions around how are we going to do this happened a lot quicker in the conversation…”
Howroyd Sent White Colleagues to Pitch Clients to Avoid Racial Bias
“I'll tell you candidly, and I'm not proud of it, there were times when I would gift my intelligence to other members of my team and have them go in and make a presentation or them make the pitch. So that the client wouldn't have to interact directly with me as…”
Howroyd: You Cannot Teach Experience, Common Sense, Confidence, or Unwilling Minds
“In our company we teach that there are five things you can't teach people. You can't teach people experience. You can't teach people common sense. You can't teach people confidence. You cannot teach people anything if they don't want to learn it, and you can't…”
Howroyd: Initially Resisted Minority Business Certification as Intrusive
“Initially I thought that certification was a strip search. I needed to open up my business to total exposure to someone, to in return, have them come back and say, yes, you are a minority. Yes, you are a woman. And yes, you are running this business. And it ju…”
ActOne Reached Profitability Within One Year of Its Founding
“Hitting profitability in a year seems pretty good, but living through it didn't.”
Howroyd: Formal Contracts Must Supersede Client Relationships Because Personnel Leave
“And one of the failures I've seen occur in my own business as in others is that we create Great relationships with people in companies, and definitely we should do that, but people are moving all of the time, and the agreement you have with a person, it may no…”
Howroyd: Family Must Earn Outside Experience Before Joining ActOne
“One of the things that I insisted for my family members before they could come into my company is that they either had to work for three years in a larger company somewhere else Or have three promotions before they could come to work for me.”
Howroyd Merged Companies With Husband So Their Son Wouldn't Choose Between Them
“I think the thing that would make it interesting for me is that our son not have to decide which one of us he wants to work for, because by then our son was looking at our industry as a future for himself, and he had worked in my company, he had worked in his …”
Howroyd Launched ActOne With $900 in Savings and $600 Family Loan
“I borrowed money from my mom, and I had saved 900 and borrowed 600 from her.”
Relying on Client Relationships Over Written Contracts Creates Business Risk
“One of the failures I've seen occur in my own business as in others is that we create Great relationships with people in companies, and definitely we should do that, but people are moving all of the time, and the agreement you have with a person, it may not al…”
Howroyd Founded ActOne With $900 in Savings and a $600 Loan
“I borrowed money from my mom, and I had saved 900 and borrowed 600 from her.”
Howroyd Required Family to Earn Promotions Elsewhere Before Joining ActOne
“Now, one of the things that I insisted for my family members before they could come into my company is that they either had to work for three years in a larger company somewhere else, Or have three promotions before they could come to work for me.”