Sylvia Sloan Black

Dr. Sylvia Sloan Black is the founder and president of Black Star Strategies, Inc..She is also an adjunct executive coach at the Center for Creative Leadership, a top-ranked global provider of leadership education. She earned her doctoral degree in strategic management from Columbia University. She also holds an M.B.A. from the University of Kansas, an M.S. in computer science from the University of North Carolina and a B.S. in physics from Howard University where she earned membership in Phi Beta Kappa. She is a Board Certified Coach.

Dr. Black has held faculty positions at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical University where she taught courses in strategic management, international business, and strategic innovation in the undergraduate and MBA programs. At Kenan-Flagler she also taught an MBA elective in international strategic alliances and an MBA elective focusing on doing business in Africa that culminated in a two-week trip to Africa. In addition, Dr. Black taught strategic management to mid level managers in the United States Postal Service’s Advanced Leadership Program from 1999 to 2006. Dr. Black has held industry positions in both operations management and finance.

Dr. Black has made numerous presentations at academic conferences and has published articles on executive leadership, competition, strategic alliances, and training leaders in scholarly journals including Journal of High Technology Management, Journal of Management, Academy of Management Executive, International Journal of Learning and Change, Managerial and Decision Economics, Organization Management Journal, and Long Range Planning. Her professional affiliations include the Academy of Management, the Academy of International Business, the National Black MBA Association, and the Honor Societies of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi.

For her service as the first African-American and first female chairperson of the Board of Visitors of the United States Army War College, Carlisle, PA, Dr. Black was awarded the Department of the Army’s Outstanding Civilian Service Award, the third highest honor the United States Department of the Army can bestow upon a civilian.

Dr. Black is an active community volunteer having served as a Red Cross volunteer, a Girl Scout leader, a Habitat for Humanity volunteer, an officer of the Chapel Hill Service League and as President of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Area Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. She currently serves as a member of the Boards of Directors of Habitat for Humanity of Orange County, A Ban Against Neglect (ABAN) and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Delta Foundation and as a mentor in the Blue Ribbon Mentor Advocate Program sponsored by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School System. She is currently the chair of the North Carolina Synod Candidacy Committee of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and also serves on the Capital Campaign Committee of the ELCA.

Companies

• Executive Coach Delta Leadership, Inc. (2017)
• Executive Coach Center for Creative Leadership (2008)
• President and Principal Consultant Black Star Strategies, Inc. (2007)
• Assistant Professor North Carolina A&T State University (2001 — 2007)
• Assistant Professor Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1993 — 2001)

Education

• Ph.D. Columbia Business School
• MBA University of Kansas - Graduate School of Business
• M.S. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• B.S. Howard University
• Hillside High School