Chandra G. Irvin is the founder and president of Irvin, Goforth & Irvin, LLC. With over 20 years experience in management, human resources, and organization development, she has worked with organizations in the United States and Austria to facilitate healthy relationships and increase productivity among people at work.

Chandra is a master consultant and frequent presenter on Polarity Management™, a breakthrough strategy that maximizes potential by supplementing traditional methods of creative planning and problem solving. Employing the GOFORTH Principles and Polarity Management™, she equips individuals and organizations to: simplify complexity, capitalize on differences, overcome chronic problems, resolve conflicts and manage change.

She is the executive director of the Diversity Strategy Consortium, a group of corporations that examines domestic and global diversity issues and develops strategies for advancing diversity leadership, accountability, communications, and performance.

She is also a senior consultant and advisor for Identity Holdings, Inc, a research-based, entertainment and education broadband network, dedicated to providing insight into shifting identities in the 21st century.

Chandra Irvin is the co-author of Do You See What I See? A Diversity Tale for Retaining People of Color, the author of FINDING PEACE in Life, Work and Love Listening to the Voice Within, and has presented at national and regional forums featuring these books.

She has earned several professional certifications, a M.Ed. degree from the University of South Carolina, a B.S. degree in Business from Winthrop University, and has completed post-graduate studies at the University of North Texas.

Nat Irvin II, is a principal of Irvin, Goforth & Irvin and the “W.M. Strickler Executive in Residence, Professor of Management,” at the College of Business of the University of Louisville. He is also the 2008 Visiting Executive Professor of future studies at the Babcock graduate School of Management, Wake Forest University. He is the founder and president of Future Focus 2020™ founded in 1996 as a non-profit, non-partisan 501c3 corporation dedicated to providing leadership in bringing futurist thinking to urban American and minority communities.

Irvin has engaged many groups and organizations in strategic conversations about the future focused on the significant social, political, economic, technological and environmental trends and events that will have the greatest impact on urban communities by the year 2020 and beyond.

In 2005, he was elected as a member of the Board of Directors of the World Future Society, Bethesda, Maryland. He is chair of the 2008 Annual World Future Society Meeting, Washington, DC.

He has been quoted in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The BBC, Christian Science Monitor, ABC News, Essence Magazine, Black Issues in Higher Education, Financial Times, among many other news organizations. Nat was a columnist for the Winston-Salem Journal, distributed by Media General Newspapers for over 15 years. He has provided commentary for NPR’s Weekend Edition and served as a regular member of the roundtable on NPR’s News and Notes hosted by Ed Gordon and Faria Chideya. Irvin is also the voice of “N2 the Future” a new futurist thinking educational program aimed at urban audiences which debuted January 2006 on “Syndication One,” produced by Radio One, the nation’s premier urban radio network in the country. “N2 the Future” can be heard in 30 major cities in America.

Irvin serves as a member of the Kraft Multi-Cultural Advisory Council which provides expertise on diversifying the company’s workforce and develops strategies for reaching the emerging urban consumer markets. He is also an advisor to a new proprietary research study on African American consumer behavior and the emergence of identity among ethnic minority groups conducted by Starcom MediaVest Group. Ranked as one of the largest brand communications groups in the world, Starcom MediaVest Group encompasses an integrated network of media, entertainment marketing, sports sponsorships, and event marketing and multicultural media.