Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Lisa Yancey is the president of Yancey Consulting (YC) and co-founder of The We’s Match. With 21 years of practice, YC is an organizational and leadership development consulting firm committed to unlocking, provoking, facilitating, and collaboratively imagining equitable social impacts on the local to national level™. YC’s mission is transformation toward just, equitable, and thriving societies. Advising across arts and culture, public space, environmental, and justice-based sectors, YC specializes in strategic organizational development, economic modeling, evaluation and assessments, board development, leadership coaching, and executive transition support. YC has directly served over 350 nonprofit organizations, grantmakers, and individuals committed to dismantling systemic inequities, enriching disinvested communities, building leadership, and amplifying diverse perspectives. It is a M/WBE.
Three fundamental philosophies drive Lisa’s work. One, we must disrupt patterns that either sustain or are complicit to inequities that challenge any person’s or group’s ability to be their full selves. Two, we will never accomplish sustainable goals looking solely at the short-term. She touts, “It is imperative to assess and set generational impact goals (20-25 years from now) that connect to present-day efforts.” The third is best captured in Lilla Watson’s declaration, “If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time, but if you are here because your liberation is bound with mine, then let us work together.” Lisa believes, “I am one of WE.”
Lisa matriculated from Boston College Law School with a J.D. and Emory University with a B.A. She is a former dancer and choreographer. She is also a member of the New York State Bar Association. Lisa resides in Mount Vernon, New York, when not traveling around the world—which is pretty often given the benefits of remote work. She is a board trustee at Fractured Atlas.