Stanley B. Lemons, Ed.D. (candidate), MBA, PMP

Stanley B. Lemons is the Founder and President of S.B. Lemons & Company, LLC. In his role as President, Mr. Lemons provides marketing and communications counsel to nonprofit and corporate executives as well as entrepreneurs. Mr. Lemons uses his years of domestic and international executive leadership experience to provide executive coaching services to emerging leaders and senior executives across a broad range of industries.

EXPERIENCE

For over three decades, Mr. Lemons has honed his marketing, communications, and business leadership skills by serving as the founder of multiple start-up firms and as a strategic leader in government and multinational organizations. He has led marketing and communications projects in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America.

Mr. Lemons’s leadership is grounded in strategic initiatives at some of the world’s largest and most recognized blue-chip companies. At Citibank, for example, Mr. Lemons led a global project team to develop a charge card product with a singular brand positioning and usage across approximately 185 countries. As part of the product development process, Mr. Lemons conducted qualitative and quantitative market research in Singapore, Argentina, Italy, and the United States, culminating in the development of marketing and communications strategies for a global product launch.

Similarly, Mr. Lemons served as a senior manager of strategic planning for The Coca-Cola Company. At Coca-Cola, Mr. Lemons was tasked with strengthening health care and education channel strategies in the U.S. market. Mr. Lemons led product segmentation studies to gain consumer insights and competitive intelligence, leading to strategies that deepened Coca-Cola’s market penetration.

Mr. Lemons also led large-scale organizational initiatives for the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the United States Peace Corps where he served as a U.S. Peace Corps Small Business Development Volunteer in Western Africa. In the United States education sector, Mr. Lemons designed marketing and communications strategies at a range of educational institutions within the U.S., inclusive of organizational identity and re-branding projects in higher education and primary and secondary schools.

Mr. Lemons has an entrepreneurial spirit that is evidenced through his founding and leading of a series of start-up companies, including co-leadership of a mental health counseling practice and his role as president of a Spanish language services business and a writing services company, The Secret To Writing, LLC.

EDUCATION

Mr. Lemons graduated from Greenhill School, a leading independent school in the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex. He earned a B.A. in philosophy from Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, and later graduated with an M.B.A. from the UCLA Anderson School of Management in Los Angeles California. He is in the process of completing a doctorate degree. Mr. Lemons is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and holds a certificate in Personal Development Coaching from The Coaching and Positive Psychology (CaPP) Institute. Mr. Lemons is an alumnus of INROADS Dallas/Ft. Worth, an education and leadership development organization.

Mr. Lemons served as a Coro Foundation Public Affairs Fellow in St. Louis, Missouri, where he furthered his education and leadership skills through a series of corporate, government agency, and political assignments. Mr. Lemons’s portfolio of executive education includes leadership, marketing strategy, new product development, international market research, and legal training through the George Washington University National Law Center Government Contracts Training Program, the Burke Institute, the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, and the Harvard Business School. Mr. Lemons successfully completed Spanish language immersion programs and cross-cultural communication training in Santa Lucía Milpas Altas, Guatemala and Königsburg, Germany.

COMMUNITY

Mr. Lemons values education. He frequently speaks at schools about the college admissions and financial aid process, as well as sharing his story as a first-generation college graduate chronicled through his photographic and on-stage presentation, “The Value of Education: A Snapshot of My Life." He is the author of the Expanding College Opportunity book and student workbook, as well as The Secret to Writing: 10 Secrets to Effective Communication Through Writing. Mr. Lemons is married and the proud father of one son.