Author

Nancy James

Leadership development trainer

Nancy James is a leadership development trainer who has developed dozens of customized learning experiences for corporations across the world, including serving as a program director for Leadership Education at Duke Divinity. She has been associate dean for executive education at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business and more recently has been a human resource executive for the United States Postal Service. She has been a member of the faculty of the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) since 1995. At one time she managed CCL’s most popular program, Looking Glass Experience. James holds a Ph.D. in educational psychology from Mississippi State University and an M.B.A. from the Fuqua School of Business. She is a Eucharistic minister and lector in her parish in Greensboro, North Carolina.

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