Advisor, pedagogy
After many successful years as an intrapreneur developing and leading innovative social impact programs in education and within local communities, Dr. Annice E. Fisher took an entrepreneurial leap of faith to create a multisector, multigenerational, intersectional movement for freedom.
She has coached executive teams, designed organizational cultural competencies, trained state agency leaders, co-chaired the Harvard Adaptive Leadership Network conference, served as vice-chair for the City-Council appointed Durham Human Relations Commission, been elected National Co-Chair for African American Knowledge Community, and spoke and facilitated numerous national presentations. She is the inaugural Antiracism Pedagogy Scholar at American University School of Education where designed an Exercising Conscious Leadership course and coordinates faculty learning in Antiracism pedagogy and practice.
Her work has garnered several awards. She was most recently recognized as a Black Woman of Excellence for the Black Professionals Network, Chicago Chapter, Outstanding Young Alumni Under 40 from the Iowa State University Alumni Association and featured in The Highland Project’s Abundance Magazine and Diverse Issues in Higher Education. Annice is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. She recently published her first book, "The Power Within Me: The road back home to the real you.”
In her efforts to democratize coaching, Annice launched The BEE FREE Institute, an online coaches certification hub for The BFW Coaches Academy & Conscious Leadership for Equity Coach. Annice has a B.A. in Rhetoric & Speech Communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, M. Ed in Higher Education Administration from Iowa State University, and Ed. L.D. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She holds certifications and trainings in Immunity-to-Change Coaching, HAVEN Interpersonal Violence, Safe Zone Ally, and the Social Justice Training Institute.
