Thought Leadership

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Walter K Booker has enjoyed profoundly contributory and impactful parallel careers in both the business world and not-for-profit and community leadership. Along the way, reflecting the tutelage from his family of educators, he has made it a practice to follow his intellectual curiosity in a disciplined way to study the environments into which he's entered and share what he's learned so that others may benefit and pay it forward to enhance the success of those who come after them.

The motto that he developed for Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) equally applies to him: It's not about you; it's about those who came before you who made this possible for you and about those who'll come after you and realize the promise that you represent. In this spirit, in both business and service engagements, he's often called upon to offer guidance to organizations, industry associations, media publications and countless executives, professionals and students, in addition to sharing original content via several media. This page is a distillation of many of these efforts and is presented in the hope that it inspires others to find their voice and vocation, leading by example in their families, communities and careers.

WKB has been a regular contributor to WealthManagement.com since 2020. His contributions include leadership and management thought leadership (especially for wealth management and aligned industry executives), practice management guidance (especially relative to Human Capital and aligned qualitative components of leadership) and social analyses and critique. 

WKB has been a prolific contributor to LinkedIn, publishing over 250 articles via this medium since 2016. His subject matter is diverse, spanning from executive leadership strategy to organizational effectiveness and growth strategy to Diversity & Inclusion and other Human Capital Management-related topics to not-for-profit leadership and personal and professional development Best Practices. One thing's for sure: if it can enrich your life either personally or professionally, chances are that he's written about it via this medium.

As a deeply experienced for-profit and not-for-profit executive and community leader, WKB has garnered experiences and insights that have led him to offer incisive and often trenchant analyses of some of the major issues of our day. In contrast to his more business-focused writings, The Booker Chronicles is more personal in nature and tone, reflecting his life experience as a pioneering executive and leader of Color.

•  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QRrNI0E7y0 
• https://www.financial-planning.com/news/double-trouble-sec-ups-scrutiny-of-dual-registrants
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=kueSYGxxnz4 
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA76_1NNU0k
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCPDbm9JeCg
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuluLzWfAPA 
• https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/03/31/subprime-suspect