Jacquelyn Gates Shipe is the Executive Director of the International Services Council of Alabama, a non profit organization that promotes global peace and understanding through citizen diplomacy. Shipe is also the President and CEO of SOARing LLC, which delivers global leadership development consulting services specializing in ethics and compliance, diversity and organizational culture shaping.Her clients include the International Finance Corporation, the World Bank Group, Jacobs ESTS, Kaiser Permanente, Nationwide and Oakwood University. From 2008 to 2010 she served as the Associate Vice President of Development at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and from 2004-2006, she served as the Vice President for Advancement and Development at Oakwood University.

Shipe is the former Ethics Officer for the World Bank Group where she reported to the Office of the President and provided leadership direction in communicating the mission and values in upholding the ethical framework of the organization’s Washington, DC headquarters and 140 world wide offices. Prior to the World Bank Group, Shipe was a corporate officer for Duke Energy and served as Vice President of Diversity, Ethics and Compliance.

She also served as the chief ethics and diversity officer reporting to the Chairman of Bell Atlantic/Verizon and led various ethics, diversity and corporate culture best practice initiatives from 1990 to 2000. Under Shipe’s leadership, Bell Atlantic received numerous awards and recognition for its work in the areas of ethics and diversity including the American Business Ethics Award. Bell Atlantic was recognized by Working Mother magazine as one of the 100 best companies for working mothers, named as one of the “Top 50” companies for Asians, Blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans by Fortune Magazine. Bell Atlantic was also named as one of “America’s Top 15” companies for women-owned businesses by the Women’s Enterprise Business National Council and was recognized as a “Promising Practice” company by the White House Initiative on Race for its work with employee resource groups. She has also held strategic management positions at the Senn Delaney Leadership Consulting Group, Time Warner, PepsiCo, Revlon and JC Penney.

Shipe is an emeritus board member of the Ethics Officer Association. Shipe is on the Advisory Boards of the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College, the National Association of Black Telecommunications Professionals and the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Clubs Inc - - of which she is one of its former national presidents. Shipe is a member of Junior Achievement’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Ethics, the Executive Board of the Committee of 100 of Oakwood University and the Advisory Board of OU’s New Beginnings.

Shipe has been cited by Ebony Magazine as one of America’s 100 Most Influential Blacks and by Good Housekeeping Magazine as one of 100 Young Women of Promise. She is also listed in Who’s Who Among Black Americans. In 2002, she was named a Woman of Power and Grace by Frasernet. Shipe was inducted into the 2004 Women’s Hall of Fame at the Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Born in Brooklyn, NY, Shipe received her bachelor’s degree in History from Brooklyn College and continued her graduate education at the New School University in New York City and at Trinity Seminary.

Shipe is married to Oliver F. Shipe. They have four children, 13 grandchildren and reside in Huntsville, Alabama. She is a well known speaker on ethics and values leadership, women, education and youth issues.

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