Gwynette Ford Lacy grew up in inner-city Washington, DC. and attended DC public schools.  After graduating magna cum laude from Lincoln University, Oxford, Penn., marrying, and working as an auditor for the federal government, she earned an MBA and Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She returned to DC and eventually became the first African American female Ph.D. to earn tenure and serve as Chair of the Department of Management of the School of Business at Howard University, and later, as the Associate Provost, while raising two children. Today she is an international management consultant, trainer, and motivational speaker.

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