Louise Wasilewski is CEO and co-founder of Acivilate, a social enterprise providing rehabilitation software to justice, health, and human services agencies. Pokket helps justice agencies work with human services agencies to improve outcomes for...
Nicole Armstrong is the CEO of TechBridge, an innovative 501(c)3 charitable, nonprofit organization with a mission to bring creative technology solutions from the robust IT business sector to the vast ecosystem of nonprofit agencies addressing...
Show Transcript Hey, this is Jeff Bond, and welcome to the Chat With Leaders Podcast. We’re a platform for leaders to share the inspiring things they’re doing to lead themselves, their teams, and the communities they serve wisely. This...
Matthew Stevens is the CEO of CENTEGIX, an industry leader in crisis and incident management systems. CENTEGIX protects over 1M people across 13 states in 1200 schools, hotels, and government buildings. As CEO Matthew is responsible for company...
Chris Cherian the CEO of Gatherly, a spatial video chat platform designed to provide seamless virtual networking events. He is also a senior at The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania studying Finance and Management. When...
Brian Benn is Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President of the Atlanta Housing Authority. Brian is responsible for the development and implementation of technology strategies that are aligned with and anchored by the overarching...
Chat Guest In Clancy’s 30-plus years as a successful sales professional, he has quickly risen to the top of three companies, in three different decades, in three very different markets. In each case, he started from a base of zero sales with little...
Chat Guest Greg is a global people, talent acquisition, and operations leader with proven experience building strategies and execution models that create world-class employee, candidate, and customer experiences. His expertise is in designing and...
Chat Guest Erik Nilsen received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Sport Management at York College of Pennsylvania in 2003 before starting his 17-year career in baseball. Prior to working for Major League Baseball, Erik worked for the Hudson...
Chat Guest Evan is the Founder of Caffeine Marketing and a small business investor. Caffeine Marketing makes profitable marketing easy for small companies. As an investor Evan helps small companies double and sometimes even triple their bottom line...
Chat Guest Joe Barry currently serves as president of AppBarry, LLC with over 12 years of demonstrated history working in the computer software industry. He is skilled in Web Application, Web Services, Cloud Management, DevOps, Automating CI/CD...
Chat Guest Richard Hicks is the CEO & President of inspiredu, as well as a transformational nonprofit leader and speaker committed to improving opportunities for children and helping families improve their socioeconomic status. In his 11+ years...
Chat Guest Over his 20 year career, Tony Robinson has been accountable for the people and performance of engineering teams in everything from the smallest startups to Fortune 50 companies. A proven innovator and inventor, Tony has led the...
Chat Guest Stephanie Mitchell is the founder of The Rolling Mat – Mobile Yoga Studio, based in Atlanta GA. Since the start of her mobile yoga adventure, Steph (aka Rollin’ Yogi) has been shaking up the yoga industry by providing well-round...
Chat Guest William Warren is an entrepreneur, illustrator, and writer who has spent his career using visuals to help communicate ideas in an effective and enjoyable way. He is the Founder and CEO of The Sketch Effect, a Visual Communication agency...
Chat Guest Tracy Notte is a business-focused Human Resources executive with 15 plus years of comprehensive experience in the facilities services, hospitality, and retail industries. She is a collaborator and hands-on executive with proven success as...
Chat Guest Eddie was born in Baltimore, MD into a family that has struggled with poverty for generations. Despite his humble beginnings, Eddie rose above his circumstances to become the first student to ever earn a D1 scholarship in the history...
Chat Guest Irene is the creator of the Happiness Within Reach program which coaches high-achievers on how to create a more holistic approach to success. This teaches leaders evidence-based techniques to building more meaningful interpersonal...
Chat Guest Jeff Davis entered the technology arena in 1992. Experience includes project management, technical consulting, system administration, network engineering, product implementation, and business management. His knowledge of many industry...
Chat Guest Shaun has years of experience that include working for a Fortune 10 telecommunications giant and a global provider of data center services. He currently runs his own IT services practice, Tech and Main (www.techandmain.com). The firm...
Chat Guest Jay Ferro is a transformative technology leader who works with diverse global corporations to accelerate growth, improve profitability, and achieve exceptional operational results. Jay possesses an unwavering commitment to excellence with...
Chat Guest Dee Ann is a 33-year veteran of Chick-fil-A, Inc. Prior to retirement in 2018, she was Vice President, Talent and Vice President, Sustainability for Chick-fil-A, Inc. Selected as the company’s first female officer in 2001, she was...
Chat Guest Jenny Jobson is the Assistant Director at the Midtown Assistance Center in Atlanta. She manages volunteers and staff who assist clients in need of support with rent, food, and other necessities. When the pandemic started to take hold in...
Chat Guest Karen Cramer is the Chief Community Impact Officer at TechBridge. TechBridge is a national nonprofit with a vision of poverty alleviation through collective action. TechBridge utilizes the generosity of the technology community to...
Chat Guest With 15 years of experience under his belt, Mike Morris decided to leave and co-found Broadgreen Solutions. While he knew the major players in Atlanta, the non-solicitation agreement he signed upon leaving forced him to use his knowledge...
Chat Guest In 2006, Beth founded Executive Velocity as an outlet for her trademark enthusiasm and energy for assisting clients with their most valuable asset – their people. Through her proven approaches, she provides expert advice on leadership...
Chat Guest Rebecca Kelly is the founder of Accountable Talent. Starting in high school as her “family’s accountant,” she made it her career working in Atlanta and New York at Deloitte. The high-pressure environment of the...
Chat Guest John is the Co-Founder and COO of Maptician, a workplace management platform behind Maptician Flex(™) which is providing new features such as social distancing, staggered scheduling, and contact tracing to help enable a Post COVID-19...
Chat Guest After years of working in the hotel industry, Mark pivoted to owning his own social media company, ePresence. This move to a completely different work environment meant a change from interfacing with his team in person to a completely...
Chat Guest Kevin Paul Scott has traveled to six continents and spoken to leaders from more than 100 countries. Kevin is the co-founder of ADDO, a leadership consultancy based in Atlanta, Georgia. ADDO exists to inspire people today to impact...
Chat Guest Ryan Klee is the owner and founder of Ryno Media a boutique content communications agency. His entrepreneur route took him towards a solo-preneuer route. By partnering with other agencies and professionals on big projects, he’s been...
Chat Guest Tim Visconti is the Founder and CEO of PeopleLift, an employee experience consulting firm that solves the three core problems every growing business faces: engaging, retaining, and attracting top talent. PeopleLift is joining the fight...
Chat Guest Serial entrepreneur John Boyzo has worked in different roles, on all levels, in a myriad of different industries. His vast experience makes him well equipped to guide and build-up his colleagues, and using the leadership skills he’s...
Chat Guest Stacey grew up with a legacy of building our community and giving back. Her grandparents, an attorney, and a school teacher founded a church and taught people within their community how to read in the basement of the church after work in...
Chat Guest JJ Koch is the Director SEO at Techwood Digital in Atlanta. Beginning as an SEO analyst, he came up through the ranks to become the director of the SEO team. He took an approach that caused some apprehension at first and in this podcast...
Chat Guest Jason has been active in the staffing industry since 1992. He founded iStaff in 1995, and currently serves as CEO of a regionally based recruiting firm with a national reach that specializes in IT recruiting. Our mission statement is:...
Chat Guest Chad Crowe is CEO at Techwood Digital Consulting. His early challenges with reading and writing spurred a passion for communication. Now, with degrees in both mass and organization communications, he is using these skills as a business...
Chat Guest For over 25 years, Charlie has been a professional angel investor and entrepreneur. His mission is to help entrepreneurs take the next steps in business and life. 10 facts about Charlie (from Paparelli.com) 1. Professional angel investor...
Chat Guest Hank Reid is the owner of Lettum Eat and executive chef and food and beverage director at First Baptist Church in Snellville. Having been in the restaurant industry for over 20 years, he took his personal mantra “lettum eat”...
Chat Guest Currently serving as CEO & Chief Consultant – J&D CONSULTING, LLC. Jim C. Jarrells is an accomplished entrepreneur whose common-sense approach and analytical instincts have inspired effectual change and notable results for a...
Chat Guest Derrick Heberling is the NG3 Area Director and Brookwood School Director. After years of coaching high school basketball, he has taken his passion and purpose to NG3 where they believe that lasting and positive changes come through...
Chat Guest As President and CEO of the Atlanta Community Food Bank, Kyle Waide oversees the distribution of nearly 70 million pounds of food and grocery products each year through a network of 600 local and regional partner non-profit organizations...
Chat Guest For almost 30 years, Rod Hames has been teaching Business and Computer Science at Crews Middle School in Gwinnett County Georgia. After being inspired by a former student and current high school business teacher, he developed an...
Chat Guest JP James was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and his family is from India. He knew since the age of 12 that he wanted to be an entrepreneur! When he was 12 years old and the internet was just beginning to flourish, he initiated his...
Chat Guest As SVP & CIO, Tom Hall leads a team that delivers all technical services for the Automotive Parts Group (NAPA) of Genuine Parts Company. This largest subsidiary of Genuine Parts Company ($15 billion + revenue) manages over 6000...
Chat Guest Ahmed was born the second of six children in Washington, DC in 1976 to a Veterinary Microbiologist father and businesswoman mother from Sudan. He traveled the world with his family, growing up in the UAE, Egypt, Oman, and Europe before...
Chat Guest Roth Staffing based in Orange, CA welcomed Staci (Smith Johnson) Ingram into the fold in 2006. She served as Marketing Manager for three years until assuming the role of Director of Marketing in 2009. Roth Staffing named Staci the Vice...
Chat Guest Andrew is a military veteran who served in the US Air Force and a terrific leader in the field of computer engineering in Atlanta GA. His computer engineering career spans 18 years as a leader in a variety of industries. Outside of work...
Chat Guest Cliff Johnson co-founded Vacasa in Portland, after growing that business from the ground up, he decided to take his passion for social entrepreneurship down to Atlanta. He joined the Rented.com team as the Chief Commercial Officer where...
Chat Guest Mark McKenzie is one of Three Brothers that owns and operates Docqmax Digital Printing, Atlanta’s Business Printer since 1975. Mark is passionate about his role as a partner along with his responsibilities of being the face of Docqmax...