ABOUT OUR FOUNDER

Katrice A. Albert, Ph.D.

Dr. Katrice A. Albert is a passionate global thought leader who has masterfully interwoven the areas of inclusive excellence, higher education, intercollegiate athletics, race relations, culture, and engagement with a penchant for people-centered talent management and mission-driven visionary leadership. With more than 25 years of purpose-propelled experience, she is a champion for access and opportunity and provides transformational business solutions, sustainable equity and inclusion strategies, and culturally-responsive leadership development services steeped in a focus on diverse top talent and the communities they serve.

Katrice brings extensive expertise and a proven record of success in advancing the complete talent management cycle with a keen focus on recruiting, developing, supporting, and growing diverse leaders. She is the founder and managing member of Third Eye Consulting Group, a diversity management consulting firm working with educational entities, nonprofit outfits, and civic organizations to reach their inclusive excellence goals. She also possesses strategic and operational leadership, helping this broad range of industries create plans for cultural integration, workplace engagement and in reaching their inclusive excellence goals. Clients include the United States Department of Homeland Security, the State of Minnesota Department of Human Services, the Association of Junior Leagues International, the City of Mobile, Alabama, The California State University System, and the Universities of Notre Dame, Nebraska, West Florida, and Central Florida.

Albert has a distinguished career in higher education and intercollegiate athletics. Most recently, Albert served as the executive vice president of inclusion and human resources at The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Previously, Albert served as vice president for equity and diversity of the University of Minnesota system, and before that as vice provost for equity, diversity and community outreach at Louisiana State University (LSU).

She writes, speaks, and consults on the issues of cultural competence and integration, corporate social responsibility, educational and workforce inclusion, gender and dynamics of power, educational access, and community-university partnerships. Albert serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, and her works are published in the Journal of Counseling Psychology and the Journal of Counseling and Development. She is the co-editor of three volumes — “Reaching the chair: Transformational leadership lessons and impactful success factors of intercollegiate athletics’ leaders” (forthcoming), “Racial Battle Fatigue in Higher Education: Exposing the Myth of Post-Racial America” (2015) and “Trayvon Martin, Race, and American Justice: Writing Wrong” (2014).

Albert earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the Xavier University of Louisiana, a master’s in counseling psychology from The University of Southern Mississippi and a doctoral degree in counseling psychology from Auburn University. She has repeatedly been recognized nationally for her efforts as an inclusion champion and subject matter expert. She is a highly sought-after scholar-practitioner that frequently writes, speaks, and consults on cultural competence and integration, corporate social responsibility, educational and workforce access and equity, gender and dynamics of power, and community-university partnerships.

Katrice A. Albert is a native of New Roads, Louisiana, in Pointe Coupée Parish.