Ellen Van Velsor is a senior fellow at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina. She is coeditor of the third edition of The Center for Creative Leadership Handbook of Leadership Development and coauthor of Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Can Women Reach the Top of America’s Largest Corporations? She earned a B.A. in sociology from Stony Brook University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Florida.