Dr. Carol Ross-Burnett Penn brings her unique lived experience, expertise, scholarship and spirit to her professional and creative endeavors through her company, CRB Global LLC. She has helped organizations identify and overcome behavioral and systemic bias for over thirty years and is widely known in the legal profession for this work. Her doctorate is in organizational change and leadership from the University of Southern California.  

Dr. Ross-Burnett Penn held long tenures in law firm and law school senior administrative roles and has also consulted with prominent clients in entertainment, education, non-profit, business and other settings. Her resume includes decades of volunteer leadership in legal organizations, publications in law-related print and on-line media, and chapters in two best-selling books with stories highlighting African Americans and African American women.

A dynamic speaker, Dr. Ross-Burnett Penn holds the highest designation of DTM (Distinguished Toastmaster) from Toastmasters International. She is a singer and songwriter who performs regularly with the music outreach of Billy Davis, Jr. and Marilyn McCoo of Fifth Dimension fame, and is the founder of a support group for prominent women in the creative and performing arts.