Yvonne Bryant J ohnsonYvonne currently serves on the faculty of the Georgia Cent er for
Nonprofits’ learning solution organization, Nonprofit University,
teaching courses in leadership and team building, and as an Executive
Coach in the Executive MBA Program at Coles College of
Business, Kennesaw State University. In addition, she has served as a
Mentor with the Goizueta Business School at Emory University and as
Director of the Educational Opportunity Program at George
Washington University.
She has provided facilitation services for the historic National
Conclave on HIV/AIDS Policy for Black Clergy, the First Annu al
Consultation for the Conference of National Black Churches (CNBC),
and the inaugural Atlanta Business League’s Congress on the State of
Black Business in Metro Atlanta with more than four hundred
sp eakers, facilitators, and delegates.
Yvonne is a dedicated leader in the nonprofit community, with a
long history of advocating for children and women. She served as the
co-board chair of the Georgia Center for Child Advocacy, an
organization honored as Nonprofit of the Year by the Georgia Minority
Business Awards. She has also served as board chair of the Youth
Ensemble of Atlanta (YEA), Partnership Against Domestic Violence
(PADV), and SCELL (a Sickle Cell organization in Grady Health
System), and she is a past board member of the Atlanta Business
League.
Her innovative spirit and commitment to excellence was recognized
with a Microsoft Diversity Champion Team Award for her work with
Women Build, an initiative to attract and prepare women for leadership
roles in software and technology using the LEGO Serious Play Method.
As Branch Manager for AT&T’s Atlanta Customer Care Organization
and Global Sales team, Yvonne ranked in the company’s top 2 percent
of customer care and sales employees, earning her an elite membership
in AT&T’s Leading Lege nds and Leaders Council.
Yvonne earned her MBA fr om Emory University, and a ttended
Johns Hopkins University and the Universities of London and Ghana.
She graduated with honors from Spelman College and was among the
fir st recipients of the Alumnae Achievement Award in Business.
Committed to continuing education, Yvonne has completed Kennesaw