Joelle A. Murchison

About Joelle A. Murchison

Multifaceted, accomplished leader poised to assist organizations and individuals in achieving or surpassing growth, inclusion, workforce development and engagement, recruitment and retention, budget, and process improvement goals by leveraging culture and inclusion. Skilled communicator, team player, and strategic solution provider.Specialties: Organizational culture, development and inclusion (strategy, program development, management and training), public speaking (panels, discussions, keynotes, workshops), community partnerships/engagement, career and executive coaching, non profit management, professional development

Experience

1. Executive Director

   Lawyers Collaborative For Diversity Lcd

   Apr 2020 — Present · US

   Long term consulting assignment as Executive Director of the Lawyers Collaborative for Diversity, an organization formed in 2003 to answer the call to unite the resources, energy and commitment of the region’s leading corporations, public sector entities, law firms, law schools and state bar associations to advance diversity in the legal profession. The current challenge is to increase the recruitment, retention and promotion of lawyers of color and other diverse individuals, not only as good social policy but also as good business practice.

Education

• Harvard Graduate School of Education

  Ed. M, Administration, Planning and Social Policy

  1995 — 1996

• Brown University

  B.A., Public Policy; Educational Studies

  1991 — 1995

• S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University

  M.S., Communications Management

  2005 — 2010