Millicent B. Lann is a multifaceted leader with extensive experience as a business strategist, entrepreneur, consultant, community activist and philanthropist. She has impacted many lives, businesses, and organizations with her innovative and engaging leadership acumen and style. She is a visionary with a track record of inspiring others to achieve extraordinary results. She currently serves as the Program Director of the Benedict College Statewide Accelerator. She has a track record of successful entrepreneurial experience with her own businesses and nonprofit organizations, which collectively has generated over $1 million in revenue. In her role as Program Director, she serves as the operations manager for the accelerator program, overseeing programmatic direction, fund development, as well as building collaborative and long-term strategic partnerships locally, nationally and globally, to include the recent investment milestone securing a generous donation from the Wells Fargo Foundation.

Millicent holds a Master of Business Administration degree with an emphasis in Leadership/Management and a Bachelor of Arts in Speech Communications degree.

Millicent passionately serves as a community activist through other service and community endeavors. She currently holds National and Local Outstanding Service and Leadership Awards, and she continues to hold appointed seats on Executive and Foundation Boards such as: SC Commission for Minority Affairs and SC NAACP State Conference. Milllicent is also one of the recipients for the 2024 Woman of Influence Award from the SC Biz News, 2024 Emerge SC Alumna, SC Women in Leadership member, and ForbesBlk. She is also an active member of the Columbia Metro Chamber of Commerce, and the SC Democratic Party.

Millicent is a 31-year member of the National Panhellenic Greek Organization, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated where she holds leadership roles as Undergraduate Advisor, and Grant Committee Chair, and State Coordinator for Sponsorships and Partnerships. She participates many of the sorority’s community outreach initiatives, providing humanitarian service and civic programs from local to international levels. By way of other nonprofit affiliations, Millicent currently serves and has overseen four other local organizations as the “President” where she is responsible for strategic and operational leadership/management, fundraising, training, recruitment, and marketing.

Millicent maintains a healthy work/life balance consisting of her outreach ministry, spending time with family and friends, traveling, and fulfilling her version of the ultimate pursuit of happiness. Her goal is to leave the world, her space, her community, better than it was when she found it. With an ambitious determination to educate, serve, share wisdom, build opportunities, pay it forward, and give back, Millicent Lann is a force to be reckoned with and has a heart with much to share. She lives in Columbia, South Carolina with her family.