Three Decades
of Cultivating
Creative Solutions

Corey D. Flournoy is the Co-Founder and Principal of Creative Outreach Consulting.

Corey leads Creative Outreach Consulting, leveraging 30+ years of experience and recognized leadership in diversity and inclusion (DEI) programming, corporate-wide change management, strategy development, executive coaching, and employee engagement for multinational corporations, nonprofits, and educational institutions.

Corey is a celebrated leader in the DEI and development field. He has been honored as a Crain’s Chicago Business Notable Black Leaders and Executives, North America’s Most Influential D&I Leaders by Hive Learning, and PerformanceIN List of The Top 50 Industry Players.

Corey is a certified professional diversity coach through Coach Diversity Institute, accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). He is an experienced keynote speaker. And also an adjunct professor at Northwestern University, teaching a graduate-level course on leading global change.

As Principal of Creative Outreach, one of Corey’s primary client is the National Future Farmers of America (FFA), where he serves as the Executive in Residence for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion to help the youth leadership organization advance their strategy, initiatives and efforts to prepare members for careers in agriculture at the national, state, and chapter level.

Corey has been the VP of People and Culture Development at Aurora and was the first Global Head of Inclusion and Diversity at Groupon.

A Chicago native, Corey earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his Master’s degree in Agricultural and Extension Education at Michigan State University.

While in school, Corey was elected president of the 450,000-member National FFA, becoming the first African-American person to hold the position in the organization’s history. His story is included in The New York Times bestseller Taking Time Off by Colin Hall and Ron Lieber, and he has been interviewed in various media, including The New York Times, USA Today, and CBS This Morning.
In April of 1999, the Chicago Sun-Times recognized Corey as one of the top “30 under 30” business leaders in the Chicago area.
He is an avid world traveler, a Les Mills fitness instructor, and involved with numerous non-profits.

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"... we aimed to launch a professional development program that included mentorship and leadership components for emerging leaders of color. This kind of program in our industry is unheard of and we needed a partner who would be flexible and adaptable to our changing needs. We were very satisfied with our partnership with Creative Outreach and look forward to continued success together."

Naledi Nyahuma Seck
VP of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at the Orchard
"consistently provides valuable perspective and pushes me in ways that have changed the trajectory of my career"

Keith Jamerson
Executive Producer, Arts & Letters Creative Co.
“[Creative Outreach] makes it look easy when driving such meaningful impact”

Diane Knoepke
Associate Director of Student Affairs at Northwestern University,
School of Education and Social Policy