Channing Salava: Living Out Your Purpose In Your Profession

Episode 97

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Jeff Bond

As Executive Partner at Chat With Leaders Media, Jeff Bond helps purpose-driven business, communications, and people leaders create high-impact content that strengthens relationships, fuels engagement, and drives meaningful impact.

His team partners with marketing and communications professionals to produce compelling podcasts, corporate event content, and leadership messaging—freeing up bandwidth while ensuring every message resonates.

Through the People First Elevation Team (PFET), Jeff and his colleagues turn company meetings into transformative experiences. By enhancing planning, elevating production, and coaching speakers, they ensure all-hands meetings and town halls inspire action, reinforce values, and build deeper connections.

Beyond media and communications consulting, Jeff serves on the Conscious Capitalism Atlanta Chapter Board, leading the Marcom Committee. He believes businesses thrive at the intersection of purpose and profit, leveraging storytelling and stakeholder-driven leadership to create sustainable 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

  1. How Channing came to the realization that she was not living out her personal purpose in her profession.
  2. What she did to clarify her purpose and apply that to the decisions she set out to make from that point forward.
  3. Why Channing believes people struggle with the tension of clarifying their own purpose.
  4. Why Channing believes it’s important for business leaders to clarify their organizational purpose and social impact mission.
  5. 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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