Black women leaders are significantly underrepresented in facilities management, a construction-related and built environment profession. Existing literature shows that facilities management is a poorly defined profession and is embedded in a predominantly white, hegemonically masculine, patriarchal culture that results in racist and sexist behaviors and actions against Black women. Such harmful experiences discourage Black women from the profession and its leadership. Most of the literature focuses primarily on Black women's experiences of oppression in predominantly white institutions across various industries, generally and in construction-related and built environment occupations, highlighting perceived negative stereotypical labels and images used to mischaracterize their behaviors to undermine their leadership. Until now, no attention has been paid to Black women leading specifically in facilities management, and no published data exists. I employed a multi-case study methodology and a Black feminist framework to examine how seven Black women executive leaders negotiate and navigate structural barriers in this profession to persist in leadership. Results of my study suggest that my participants: 1) gained critical consciousness from their lived experiences of oppression, caused mainly by two complex structural barriers: a poorly defined profession and an oppressive culture; 2) utilized their experiential knowledge gained from lived experiences of oppression to develop a network of support systems, relationships, and sacred spaces; and 3) extracted and transferred their experiential knowledge from their respective disciplines to leadership positions in facilities management. My study provides insight and recommendations to draw attention to how we can address this injustice against Black women in facilities management. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]