Cheryl Brown, MBA, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, is passionate about helping organizations relentlessly pursue organizational excellence. With more than 25 years of experience working with nonprofits to Fortune 500 companies to improve cultures, Cheryl is an expert in culture transformation, strategic planning, operational effectiveness, innovation, talent acquisition, diversity, equity, and inclusion, organizational development, performance management, succession planning, and board governance. As an award-winning executive and CEO for Impact for Excellence, LLC, her P.R.A.I.S.E. Culture™ and P.R.A.I.S.E. Strategy™ frameworks align culture with strategy to achieve measurable results. Cheryl also serves on the NLC Board of Directors and is a key contributor on the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Committee, Human Resources Task Force, and is serving a second year as a mentor for NLC’s Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards (ARENB) Fellowship.