--- title: "From survival to leadership: My BlackRock TLx story" url: https://daily.dev/posts/from-survival-to-leadership-my-blackrock-tlx-story-o2yw2pax3 source_url: https://engineering.blackrock.com/from-survival-to-leadership-my-blackrock-tlx-story-2f921e93a282 type: article source: "Blackrock Engineering" published: 2025-05-20T18:02:57.287Z updated: 2026-03-15T05:17:05.019Z tags: ["career", "fintech", "leadership"] reading_time: 8 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # From survival to leadership: My BlackRock TLx story **[Blackrock Engineering](https://daily.dev/sources/blackrock)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Jamal Smith, a BlackRock Product Manager, shares his journey of personal growth and leadership development through the TLx program. Amid career uncertainty during COVID-19 and past hardships, he found clarity and strength through TLx. The program emphasizes diverse leadership skills, collaboration, and perspective shifts, benefiting personal and professional objectives within tech and finance. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career), [#fintech](https://daily.dev/tags/fintech), [#leadership](https://daily.dev/tags/leadership) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/from-survival-to-leadership-my-blackrock-tlx-story-o2yw2pax3)