Since founding Yancy Forums LLC in 2010, Earl J. Yancy serves as President and Lead Forum Moderator of the professional and leadership development firm.
Mr. Yancy began his professional career as a Yale University faculty member. He later went on to found Yancy Minerals, Inc., which was recognized as “Connecticut Business of the Year”. He also founded a Private Equity firm, YVC Partners, LLC., which had several successful business launches. He credits the lessons from the failure of one of his businesses, Peak Electronics, Inc., about which he collaborated with the Harvard Business School on a case study, as motivating him to found Yancy Forums as a leadership development firm.
A respected New England business leader, Mr. Yancy has served on several community, business and banking boards. He was also Chairman of the Boston-based Regional National Minority Purchasing Council. He has been a long-standing member of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity (The Boule) as well as an active member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO).
A veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, Mr. Yancy earned degrees from Southern University, at Louisiana. HBCU; from the Staatliche Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste in Berlin, Germany; and from Yale University Graduate School. He received a Loeb Fellowship in residence at Harvard University, where he did doctoral studies that he currently applies in his coaching of medical, business and educational professionals.
Married with three adult children, Mr. Yancy’s hobbies and interests over the years have been landscaping, sculpture, dog training, and martial arts.
