(USA Today) — It is hard to imagine that my client — the confident, competent, smart, strong and impeccably dressed Debbie that I have known 15 years — felt invisible early on in her career.

But that’s just how she and other black women in corporate America have felt — and still do at times.
It goes back to unflattering stereotypes and general perceptions that “make it easy to dismiss black women as unable to be power players,” says Sophia A. Nelson in her book, “Black Woman Redefined.”

Add that less than 1.2 percent of black females are executives in corporate America, and such women not only feel invisible, but to a third of the American workforce they truly are invisible, Nelson says.

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