Constance Cannon Frazier

Constance Cannon Frazier is the founder and principal of Cardinal Change Consulting, a change management organization, with emphasis on diversity, equity and inclusion, corporate social responsibility, and organization management.

Prior to founding Cardinal Change, Frazier was a member of the American Advertising Federation’s (AAF) staff for nearly seventeen years. Her tenure with AAF commenced with being responsible for the AAF’s Mosaic Center and Education Services departments. In that role, she oversaw, expanded, and created numerous programs including AAF’s Most Promising Multicultural Students, Mosaic Awards, Mosaic Career Fairs, AdCamp, Mosaic Supplier Diversity Vendor Fairs, National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC) and Student Conference.

In 2007, Frazier was promoted, and her responsibilities were expanded to include being responsible for all of AAF’s programming.

She was promoted to Chief Operating Officer (COO) on August 1, 2010 and served in that capacity until July 2020. As COO, Frazier oversaw the organization’s strategic planning, administration and coordination of all services, programs, and operational activities.

Prior to AAF, Frazier was a lecturer in the School of Communications at Howard University, where she gained national recognition as an advertising educator. Frazier has also held the positions of Director of Community Affairs and Programming Director at Public Broadcasting television stations in Washington, DC and New Orleans.

She is a former member of the Howard University School of Communications Board of Visitors, Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and American Society of Association Executives. Currently, she serves as treasurer of ADCOLOR’s Board of Directors.

She is the recipient of a 2021 ADCOLOR Lifetime Achievement Award.