Danell Scarborough

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT DANELL SCARBOROUGH

Danell Scarborough’s work focuses on leadership and organization development for civic and nonprofit organizations. Her scope of work features facilitating strategic planning and visioning sessions, facilitating stakeholder and community input processes, establishing a citizens advisory committee to provide input to a water agency board, facilitating a blue ribbon commission investigating and recommending improvements to the county’s foster care system, facilitating community forums for a city police chief selection process, facilitating a City Council appointed citizens group charged with developing a new council policy, convening forums for a regional workplace civility and equity initiative.During her 30-year career, Danell served as the Executive Director of two Mayor and Council appointed commissions dedicated to fostering accountability and inclusion across all communities in San Diego – and Citizens Review Board on Police Practices and the Human Relations Commission. Danell was an internal change agent for the City of San Diego where she designed and led projects including complex culture change, strategic planning, business process reengineering, community engagement, and criminal justice reform projects. She facilitated the City’s leadership development program, was change management lead for the enterprise-wide ERP implementation, director of administration for the elected City Attorney, manager of the City’s organization development and training unit, and project leader for The Diversity Commitment. She was also associate director for The Centre for Organization Effectiveness during its creation.She serves on nonprofit boards that promote leadership, equity, and inclusion: Treasurer of theCalifornia Association of Human Relations Organizations, and Past President at Alliance SanDiego. Danell has been an Adjunct Professor in the Nonprofit Leadership and ManagementMasters Program in the Department of Leadership Studies at the University of San Diego. Shevolunteers extensively for Girl Scouts. She is a trained and experienced mediator and a board-certified coach. She is a graduate of Leadership California’s Issues and Trends program andLEAD San Diego’s Impact Program. In 2012, LEAD San Diego awarded her the Herbert G. KleinVisionary Leadership Award. She earned her doctorate from the University of San Diego inleadership studies. Her dissertation focused on leadership in local government organizations.