“If your daughter can translate this contract, I’ll double your salary,” the billionaire told a young Black boy. A little later, he was amazed by the girl’s talent…

Later, he said to Marcus,
« Your daughter has changed the outcome of this contract. Do you understand what that means? »
« I understand, » Marcus replied, moved. « But she’s still a child. I don’t want her to lose her innocence. »
« And she won’t. She’ll have what you never had: education, mentorship, choice. You’ve done your job as a father. Let me do mine as a mentor. »

That was perhaps the most humane sentence James ever uttered.

Years later, that moment in the lobby—when a billionaire made a seemingly innocuous remark to his doorman—would be remembered as the spark that forever changed a young girl’s destiny.

For James, it was proof that genius often emerges from the most unexpected places.
For Marcus, it was the certainty that his daughter’s future would not be limited by her background.
And for Alisha, it was only the beginning of a journey that would take her far beyond the glass towers of Whitmore Global.