Carrie Ellis

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ABOUT CARRIE ELLIS

Carrie L. Ellis is a graduate of Spelman College in Atlanta, GA where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. Following her undergraduate studies, Carrie moved to California to teach middle school English and Mass Media as a Los Angeles Teach For America corps member. Her teaching experience inspired Carrie to pursue a Master’s degree in Communication Management from the University of Southern California, where she concentrated in Educational Children’s Media. After graduation, Carrie went to Washington, D.C. where she worked for several years in different capacities on the national staff of Teach For America. Upon leaving Teach For America, Carrie joined the staff of KaBOOM, the national nonprofit that creates playspaces through the participation and leadership of communities, as the Director of Project Management. During her seven years with KaBOOM, Carrie\'s team oversaw the planning and installation of over 1,400 community-built playspaces throughout North America. Carrie returned to staff with Teach For America serving as the chief strategist on Teach For America\'s human assets efforts in Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, Greater New Orleans, South Louisiana, the Louisiana Delta, Arkansas, and Mississippi. After 2 1/2 years in that role, she was promoted to Vice President of People Development managing the People Partnership and Executive Coaching teams and eventually managing Staff Learning & Development and Strategy & Operations as well. Now as the Principal Consultant with Celestial Consulting, LLC, Carrie draws from her over 20 years of experience to help organizations and individual leaders create the conditions for highly effective work environments. She partners with teams to help them enact culture-focused, equitable solutions that resolve difficult situations, create sustainable change, and result in better organizational outcomes and higher employee satisfaction, retention, and performance across diverse teams.