Chandra Livingston, C.A.S.C, M.A.O.M, CPA, Managing Director

Overview

Chandra Livingston is the Founder and Managing Director of It’s Your Time to Flourish, a workforce development and management consulting agency that serves work teams, entrepreneurs, new managers, and career shifters who are seeking to transform into effective, heart-centered decision makers. Clients prefer her company’s solutions over available alternatives because they deliver holistic strategies utilizing a healthy mind/body/lifestyle approach, resulting in benefits that last. Practice specialties include, but are not limited to, Career Coaching, Communications, Diversity/Equity/Inclusion/Belonging Training, Culture & Organizational Development, Healthy Lifestyle Advocacy, New Leader Development, Public Speaking Coaching, Small Business, Financial Operations Consulting and Team Coaching.

Professionally, Chandra is a Certified Axiogenics Self-Leadership Coach and a Certified Public Accountant with a master’s degree in Organizational Management. She has 20+ years of corporate experience that includes serving as the Accounting Manager for the $2.5 billion dollar Houston Municipal Employees Pension System, Accounting Manager for the Star of Hope Mission homeless shelter and five years as the Investment Operations Officer for Houston Endowment Inc., a private foundation with assets of more than $1.5 billion that supports charitable organizations in the greater Houston area. Chandra is also an Independent Consultant with Arbonne, a personal product company whose mission is to empower people to flourish with sustainable healthy living. From 2010 to 2012, she had the opportunity to advocate for enhanced diversity awareness in her role as the Board Chair of the Arbonne African American Advisory Taskforce.  As a Senior Consultant, Chandra's creative and engaging leadership style resulted in the efficient procurement and distribution of $4.3 million in Hurricane Harvey aid to 800+ families.  Her brilliant design of an equitable disaster aid needs assessment and procurement protocol system resulted in her earning an Unsung Hero Award.

Chandra was recently selected to participate in the prestigious Inner City Capital Connections Houston Cohort for 2021, a nine-month masterclass business program that features lectures from Ivy league professors and access to venture capital. She is the author of the book, “It’s Harvest Time: Reaping the Treasure God has Waiting for You”, available at Barnes and Nobel and Amazon.com.  She is a member of the Texas Society of CPAs and is a Lifetime Associate member of Jack and Jill of America. As a member of Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church, Chandra serves on the Deaconess Board, is a music ministry soloist and enjoys leading bible studies for Family Group 31. Chandra is married to Army Veteran E.S. (Rudy) Livingston, Jr. and they have three wonderful adult children, Alysia, E. Steve and Mia.