Channing Salava: Living Out Your Purpose In Your Profession

by Jeff Bond

I'm the Co-Founder of Chat With Leaders Media and People First Elevation Team, where my team and I help values-driven businesses create content that strengthens relationships, fuels engagement, and drives high-performing cultures. We partner with communications, marketing, and people teams to produce thought-leadership podcasts, executive messaging, and event content. My team and I also work with leaders to transform company meetings into culture-defining moments—ensuring they align teams, elevate key voices, and inspire action. As a board member of Conscious Capitalism Atlanta, I advocate for business as a force for good. Outside of work, I’m passionate about faith, family, and using influence to create lasting impact.

Channing Salava is the Co-Founder of Brand Pollinators, a conscientious consulting firm that specializes in establishing foundational marketing within emerging brands. Brand Pollinators works with purpose-driven brands to bring clarity to your mission and vision and ensures those values are being actualized in the market.

Before co-founding Brand Pollinators, Channing built her career in the consumer packaged goods space working with brands that held a strong social mission. Her life’s purpose is to help ideas, people, and companies actualize their full potential and she believes in the power of cross-pollination.

Channing has a BA in Communication Studies from Belmont University and a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Emory University. She is a lifelong competitive athlete and a proud dog mom.

What you’ll learn

How Channing came to the realization that she was not living out her personal purpose in her profession.
What she did to clarify her purpose and apply that to the decisions she set out to make from that point forward.
Why Channing believes people struggle with the tension of clarifying their own purpose.
Why Channing believes it’s important for business leaders to clarify their organizational purpose and social impact mission.
What leaders can be doing better today that will help equip and empower our next-gen professionals and organizational leaders to create a sustainable future.

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Our Community Partners

B Local GA: A collection of for-profit companies each dedicated to creating a future where businesses operate as a positive influence on society.
InspirEDU: A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that seeks to support education equity with its commitment to youth and their families, through training, device distribution, and technology career development.
AppBarry: An Atlanta-based software engineering team specializing in building custom web and mobile applications, cloud migrations, and software integrations.
Classic City Consulting: An Atlanta-based WordPress design + development, content writing, and SEO consulting firm.
Stratfield Consulting: Helping organizations successfully adapt to a rapidly changing landscape with an approach that integrates proven consulting, staffing, and recruiting services.