Chandra Irvin
Books by Chandra Irvin
Biography
Chandra Irvin is the founder and Principal of Irvin, Goforth & Irvin, LLC, an organization development firm dedicated to facilitating healthy relationships and increased productivity among people at work. Her commission and passion: Expand the mind and elevate the spirit!
As the Principal of Irvin, Goforth & Irvin, she provides large, midsize and small organizations with strategies and skills to build individual and organizational potential. Founded in 1994, the firm offers a range of services including: change management; culture assessments; strategic planning; leadership, management, and employee development; mediation; and group facilitation. Chandra is a lead consultant and frequent presenter on Polarity Management™, a breakthrough strategy to accelerate traditional methods of problem solving. Employing the principles of Real Time Strategic Change&trade and Polarity Management™, she equips individuals and organizations to leverage complexity, change, and conflicts to achieve a higher purpose and common good.
Some of the organizations she has served include: Keebler; Kellogg; Kraft Foods Global; Sara Lee Corporation; Avon Products; Corning Incorporated; Hallmark Cards; Tropicana; Wake Forest University; The Center for Work and the Human Spirit; The City of Arlington, TX; Forsyth County, NC; Professional Resources Organization; The Felicity Group, Ltd.; Habitat for Humanity; The United Way.
Chandra Irvin is the Executive Director of The Diversity Strategy Consortium (DSC), a group of corporations which examines domestic and global diversity issues; seeks out best practices for diversity and inclusion; and develops strategies for advancing diversity leadership, accountability, communications, and performance measurements. The DSC includes Avon, Corning, Hallmark, Rohm and Haas, Sara Lee, Hanesbrands Inc., and The Vanguard Group.
Chandra is a senior consultant and advisor for Identity TV (IDTV), a research-based, entertainment and education broadband network, dedicated to providing insight into shifting identities in the 21st century.
Mrs. Irvin serves on the board of Future Focus 2020, a futurist organization based at Wake Forest University engaging businesses and urban communities in futurist thinking and the advisory board of the Maya Angelou Research Center’s Voices of African American Health Project. Irvin is an advisor to the EHCO Council which launches social capital models for diverse and inclusive leadership; an Action Learning coach; and a community mediator. Additionally she is involved in several ministries in her faith community.
In prior positions she has served in management roles directing operations staff; directed human resources functions such as employee relations, compensation, classification, training and development, staffing, and policies & procedures; and been a consultant for corporate communications and crisis management.
Irvin is the co-author of Do You See What I See? A Diversity Tale for Retaining People of Color (John Wiley & Sons, 2005).
She is the author of Finding PEACE in Life, Work and Love Listening to the Voice Within (Wheatmark Books, 2005).
She has earned a M.Ed. degree from the University of South Carolina, a B.S. degree in Business from Winthrop University, completed post-graduate studies at the University of North Texas, and earned professional certifications from national and international management organizations.
Chandra and her husband, Nat, have three children and live in North Carolina.