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Feb 2020
31m 31s

From “Fish Out of Water” to Wall Street ...

GOLDMAN SACHS
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Sean Legister, a vice president in the Global Markets Division, talks about overcoming imposter syndrome on the Goldman Sachs trading floor and what led him to start Breakfast Bites, a monthly fireside chat connecting black colleagues with senior leaders. Legister tells podcast host Jake Siewert, “When I looked at the black population, particularly within th ... Show More
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