Show Objectives: Highlight Black Food Service Professionals & The Black Experience  Our goals are to ...  o Engage in an open & honest discussion on how to navigate controversial external elements-- politically, professionally, and socially o Understand our role and how to manage the delicate balance of influence and power o Discuss how we transform our influence and power, utilizing a sense of controlled emotional intelligence and understanding what that looks like for each of our individual narratives. In control of our own dollar...   Audience Takeaway: How to recognize and transform our influence and power, utilizing a sense of controlled emotional intelligence; and understanding what that looks like for each of us and what it sounds like as both an individual and collective narrative.