McKinley Malbrough III
J.D., MS-HRM. Founder of Urban Human Resources and Online Facilitation Skills. 12+ years in human resources, training facilitators online and in person, out of Oakland, California.
Every article on this site is written by me.
I started teaching online in 2017 and never stopped. In between, I went to law school, earned a master's in human resource management, spent 12+ years running HR inside organizations, and built a consulting practice serving urban professionals and urban organizations.
I have also been doing stand-up since 2010, which is where I learned to read a room in seconds and adjust before losing it. That is not a side note. It is half of what I teach.
I am from East Oakland, ZIP 94603, where roughly 3 in 1,000 adults hold a professional degree (ACS 2020 to 2024, table B15003). Nobody handed me the rules. I learned them by getting them wrong in public, then wrote them down so the next person would not have to.
What I write about
Live session design, participation for people who do not perform, the legal side of training that most facilitation programs skip, what AI changed about learning and development, and the unwritten rules that decide who advances at work.
Every statistic on this site carries a source and a date. Where AI was used in a page or an image, the page says so.
One vision. Three lanes.
People from neighborhoods like mine have to over-prove themselves to systems that weren't built for them. If it wasn't an issue, I would've called it Suburban Human Resources. Every business I run attacks that same gap from a different side.
Urban Human Resources
The work
Career strategy that helps urban professionals land the highest pay their work is worth, and full-scope HR for urban organizations. The parent company.
Visit urbanhumanresources.com
Online Facilitation Skills
The teaching
Training the people who pass the playbook on, so the knowledge doesn't stop with me. You're here.
MM3 Sports
The negotiation
I represent WNBA players as a certified agent. Under the 2026 CBA, the league minimum jumped from $66,079 to $270,000 in one season. That's money arriving faster than anyone hands out the playbook for it. mm3sports.com, coming soon.
Sources: WNBA and WNBPA (2026 minimum); National Partnership for Women & Families (2025 minimum). Data current as of September 2026.
Bring me a session.
Twenty minutes, no pitch. I will tell you what I would change about it.