Our Collective Story
Chanda Gibson spent 20 years in the corporate and nonprofit sectors fighting for the voices of Black professionals to not just be heard, but truly listened to. It was so consuming that she frequently woke at 3:08 am thinking about how she could be part of a new solution. Turns out the middle of the night awakenings were Chanda’s wake-up call. She began to create a constellation of like-minded professionals, and 3:08 Collective was born.
We are a new species of consulting firm.
We are a fully-inclusive, cross-sector, on-call network of professionals fueled by our own lived experiences and belief that change is possible if professionals take purposeful, strategic action.
Our Leadership Team
3:08 Collective’s Principals have been doing this work for a very long time, but for the first time… there is captive audience. Each Principal has experience in the corporate sector and know first-hand the delicacy of this work.
Chanda Gibson, CEO
Chanda Gibson spent 15 years at Goldman Sachs building their global operational Environmental, Social, and Governance practice. During that time she spent six years managing their Employee Resource Group for Black professionals, which ignited her passion for this work and led her to the nonprofit sector where she served as the Executive Director for the Council of Urban Professionals, an organization supporting the advancement of professionals of color in corporate America. Chanda also had a brief tenure as the Chief Advancement Officer at DREAM, where her mandate was to develop a more diverse external support network that better reflected the black and brown young people the organization served. Chanda recently took the exciting leap of realizing her life’s purpose and setting out to build 3:08 Collective. Chanda is a graduate of Stanford University and USC Gould School of Law. She lives in New Jersey with her two sons.
John Simpkins, Knowledge Lead
John L. S. Simpkins is the President and CEO of MDC, Inc., having most recently served as Vice President, Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute. Prior to that, he was an executive with Prisma Health, where he led collaborative, evidence-based efforts to promote health innovation, access, and equity. He also is a Senior Lecturer at Duke Law School. John was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in the Obama Administration where he served as general counsel for the U.S. Agency for International Development and deputy general counsel for the White House Office of Management and Budget. He has worked as a professor, consultant, and researcher in comparative constitutional law and constitutional design. John received his AB in government from Harvard College and a JD and LLM in international and comparative law from Duke University School of Law. He is an Aspen Global Leadership Network Fellow and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
Tommy Walker, Creative Lead
Tommy Walker is a producer/director in New York City. In 2005 Walker co- directed and produced the feature length theatrical documentary, God Grew Tired of Us, about refugees from war torn Sudan, their subsequent immigration to America, and their experience in a Post 9/11 world. The film won Best Documentary as well as the Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Walker is currently a producer and partner with Freemind Beauty, a production company that has produced The Black List and The Latino List and The Out List for HBO documentaries as well as The Boomer List and The Women's List for PBS American Masters. Walker is a producer of the 2019 critically acclaimed theatrically released documentary Toni Morrison:The Pieces I Am.
Our Collective
We have curated a fully-inclusive network of professionals who bring their skill sets, lived experiences, and extended networks to the Collective; their expertise ranges from contemporary art to financial services, political and policy strategy, pop culture, gender fluidity, women’s health and more. We deploy our family of professionals to work alongside us to achieve cultural change in our workplaces.
Our Partners
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