Rod Chappell

HBCU CEO, LLC is a leadership development company launched in 2017 to explore leadership through the perspective of entrepreneurs. Its work focuses on promoting the characteristics that help people lead and support others as they advance in their careers. The organization presents its approach through a CEO capabilities model and a program designed to connect participants with practical insights from experienced thought leaders.

HBCU CEO’s model puts these leaders front and center, sharing advice based on their own experience. The company also conducts virtual training, information-sharing activities, meet-ups, and other learning opportunities. Its principles begin with the ideas that everyone is passionate about something and wants to earn money and enjoy a good quality of life. HBCU CEO emphasizes the ten steps between those goals as key to success. Through its program, model, principles, and projects, the brand aims to encourage career growth and leadership development informed by entrepreneurial experience.