Joelle A. Murchison

Founder & Principal, ExecMommyGroup (EMG

Joelle A. Murchison combines her passion and expertise in education, equity & inclusion and communications in her work as the Founder & Principal of ExecMommyGroup LLC (EMG), an inclusion, leadership and coaching consulting practice.

A career diversity and inclusion champion, Murchison, a graduate of Brown University, Harvard Graduate School of Education and Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications, also currently serves as the Executive Director of The Lawyers Collaborative for Diversity and as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Connecticut School of Business.

A native of Queens, and raised in Long Island, NY, Joelle takes her professional and leadership queues from her mother, a trailblazer in her own right, who was the first African American woman manager in the Social Security Administration in the 1970s. Joelle began her career in higher education followed by a stint in the non-profit sector; then transitioning to corporate America - first with United Technologies and then as the inaugural Chief Diversity Officer at Travelers Insurance. Murchison subsequently returned to higher education in 2016 as the inaugural Chief Diversity Officer at the University of Connecticut before launching EMG.

A recipient of numerous awards, Joelle serves as the chair of the board of RE-Center - Race and Equity in Education (formerly The Discovery Center) and is a director/trustee on the boards of the Amistad Center for Art and Culture (Hartford, CT) and College Possible, a national nonprofit focused on college access. Most recently, Joelle was elected to serve as a trustee of the Corporation of Brown University, the university’s decision making body.