About Ellen
Ellen Miller, EMC’s Principal, is a collaborative, creative leader with over 25 years of experience in professional associations, foundations, and courts. As a trained mediator and facilitator, she creates progressive and sustainable solutions in diverse settings, earning recognition as a problem-solver and innovator.
Her extensive experience in program development, advocacy, stakeholder engagement, service evaluation, strategic planning, communications assessment, policy development, organizational leadership and employee recruitment is brought to every project. She served as President of the National Association of Bar Executives (NABE) and is a member of the American Society of Association Executives. Ellen is particularly passionate about helping organizations see their full potential through strategic framework development and implementation.
What's My Why?
I am passionate about helping organizations. Aligning ideas to strategy and creating a clear path to implementation is what drives me. I am here to help leadership be impactful.
Who's Worked With Ellen
California Lawyers Foundation
San Joaquin County Bar Association
Miracle Babies
Consumer Attorneys of San Diego
International Ombuds Association
LEAP (Legal Education Access Pipeline)
Articles by Ellen
July 2023: How Organizational Ombuds Can Help Increasingly Complex Organizations (FORBES)
October 2023: A Workplace Culture Of Safety And Inclusion Modeled By Ted Lasso (FORBES)
January 2024: How Ombuds Can Impact The Well-Being Of Healthcare Worker (FORBES)
Sampling of Association President's Messages: 2021-2022: NABE News: Resilience, Coming from a Place of Yes, Change is the Only Constant, Sometimes you have to throw out the first few pancakes,Time flies when you are having fun