Mr. Lloyd Bullard has over 35 plus years of experience working within the human services field. He is considered a national expert in the areas of Restraints and Seclusion Reduction and Best Practices, Cultural Competence, Racial Disproportionality and Disparity of Outcomes, Residential Care, Community-Based Services and Supports, Human Trafficking, Program Auditing, Evaluation and Assessment, Supervisory and Management Development and Consultation/Training.

Mr. Bullard serves as a Building Bridges Initiative, (BBI) Senior Consultant. He is responsible for leading Quality Improvement Collaboratives (QICs), serving as the state lead for several state initiatives, coordinating BBI Expert Consultants and leading/coordinating the BBI Leaders of Color Project. He is currently the CEO and sole proprietor of LBIC Consulting Services, Inc. (LBIC). He also serves as the CEO for the Global Center of Creative Learning (GCCL), which develops instructor-led, virtual, and e-learning training curricula and conducts training sessions for supervisory and management personnel, as well as for program staff. Mr. Bullard is also a contractor for Danya International, Inc., a DLH Holding Corporation, conducting Immigration Custom Enforcement (ICE) Inspections of juvenile, family facilities and staging centers. 

In 2019/2020, Mr. Bullard served as Southwest Key Programs Chief Operations Officer overseeing Unaccompanied Minors, Youth Justice and Workforce programs. Prior to starting his own consulting company in 2010, Mr. Bullard spent ten years working for the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) where he held the positions of Director of Residential Care; Director of Cultural Competence and Racial Disproportionality; Director of Best Practices to Reduce the Use of Restraint and Seclusion. The CWLA National Coordinating Center for Reducing and Eliminating the Use of Restraint and Seclusion worked with several residential programs and children’s psychiatric hospital(s) across the country to eliminate the use of emergency procedures (restraints and seclusion). The Center was able to publish several best practice documents.

Mr. Bullard holds a Bachelor of Science in Counseling Education from South Carolina State University and a Master of Education from Concordia University.