From the Bronx to the Boardroom

For fans of The Memo and Becoming, a memoir of resilience, power, and identity that traces one Afro-Latina executive’s rise from the South Bronx to the C-suite—and shares the hard lessons no one teaches about how the world actually works.

At five years old, Lizette Williams Rashad called the police from a rotary phone while her father beat her mother in the next room. That night—and what her mother did the morning after—became Lizette’s first lesson in a lifetime of learning how to rebuild, advance, and lead in environments not designed for her.

From the Bronx to the Boardroom is the memoir of an Afro-Latina girl from the South Bronx who became a Fortune 50 executive—not by assimilating but by learning to read power, build strategic relationships, and move with precision in rooms where she was often the only one who looked like her. Blending personal narrative with hard-earned leadership principles, this book offers a clear-eyed look at what it takes to succeed at the highest levels—without abandoning who you are. Grounded in lived experience, it challenges the notion that advancement requires conformity and translates unspoken rules into actionable principles for operating with authenticity and power.

Anyone who has ever had to figure out the unspoken “rules” for themselves will see their story—and their strategy—in this perceptive and actionable memoir.