Ancella Livers, Ph.D
Ancella Livers, Ph.D., joined the board in 2011. She is the Senior Faculty member on the Design and Delivery team at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), working with clients on gaining clarity around their leadership needs and creating dynamic solutions to meet those needs. Ancella earned a B.S. in Mass Communications from Hampton Institute, a M.S. in Journalism from Northwestern, and a M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Carnegie Mellon University.
Ancella is a skilled leadership development professional. While most of her clients have been in Fortune 500 companies, Ancella has also worked with government agencies and nonprofits. For 12 years, Ancella worked at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®) where she held a number of leadership roles including global director of open enrollment programs, global program manager of CCL’s flagship offering the Leadership Development Program (LDP®) and program manager of several other programs including the Foundations of Leadership, the African-American program and the Women’s Leadership program. She has deep expertise on diversity issues, particularly those focusing on African Americans and women. For a time, Ancella joined the Executive Leadership Council® (ELC) where she served as Executive Director of the Institute for Leadership Development and Research. Prior to working in the leadership development field, Ancella was an assistant professor in the School of Journalism at West Virginia University, and spent a decade as a newspaper journalist, acting as business editor and Capitol Hill reporter for Gannett News Service.
Ancella has been a visiting faculty member for Antioch University’s Ph.D. program in Leadership and Change and has also served on several dissertation committees.
Ancella is co-author of the book Leading in Black and White: Working across the Racial Divide and of the Harvard Business Review article “Dear White Boss.” She has written a chapter “Coaching People of Color,” for The CCL Handbook of Coaching: A Guide for the Leader Coach and she has written the essay “Black Women in Management” published in Vol.1 of Gender, Race, & Ethnicity in the Workplace. Most recently, she has co-authored the chapter “Miasma: The Dynamics of Difference” in the casebook, Leading Across Differences and is author of several columns in Positively Successful magazine.
