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Aviva Leebow with Pacesetter Steel Service, Kathy Colbenson with CHRIS Kids and Vanessa Anderson with Covenant Christian Ministries Academy

July 30, 2014 by Mike

Silver Lining in the Cloud

Aviva Leebow with Pacesetter Steel Service, Kathy Colbenson with CHRIS Kids and Vanessa Anderson with Covenant Christian Ministries Academy

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Aviva Leebow, Kathy Colbenson, Vanessa Anderson, Dom Rainey

Aviva Leebow/Pacesetter Steel Service

Pacesetter Steel Service, headquartered in Kennesaw, GA, is an industry leader in flat rolled carbon steel. Pacesetter processes and distributes coated steel products through its own service centers in Atlanta, Chicago, and Houston as well as partnerships with other processors nationwide. Pacesetter is a privately held company founded by its current President and CEO, Steve Leebow.

Many associates who helped build Pacesetter from its early beginnings are still with the company today. The tenured workforce talent offers invaluable leadership and expertise to their newer associates.

Since humble beginnings, Pacesetter has added equipment, locations, and capabilities to their organization to best serve the needs of customers. Pacesetter continues to expand its offerings outside of just their products, but also into their creative, value enhancing services. They continuously look for ways to help make their customers more profitable by offering and implementing ideas on increasing customer plant throughput, innovative pricing and inventory management strategies, early engineering involvement, and alternate products

Kathy Colbenson/CHRIS Kids

Since 1981, CHRIS Kids has transformed the lives of over 20,000 children, youth and families. Their mission is to heal children, strengthen families and build community. CHRIS is an acronym that stands for their core values: Creativity, Honor, Respect, Integrity and Safety. They offer services for children, youth and families that helps individuals overcome trauma and move to resiliency and self-sufficiency. Their goal is that all children, adults and families receive the hand they need to lead fulfilling lives and to demonstrate responsible citizenship. The CHRIS Kids vision is to improve the community by providing high-quality, trauma-informed behavioral health services and support systems. Everyone deserves to be a part of a safe, vibrant community. For more information or to help make a difference, visit www.chriskids.org.

Vanessa Anderson/Covenant Christian Ministries Academy

Covenant Christian Ministries Academy, a ministry of Covenant Christian Ministries Church, is a fully accredited school (ACSI and SACS CASI – AdvancEd) established in 1994 which provides educational services to students both foreign and domestic. Excellent learning opportunities are available at CCMA! Class sizes are moderate to allow individual needs to be addressed.

Various activities are available to students in addition to the academic rigor – basketball, volleyball, cheerleading, chorus, yearbook, spelling bee, and more. Their basketball program produces true student-athletes, several recruited to NCAA Division I colleges.

The mission of Covenant Christian Ministries Academy is to prioritize the wisdom of God first and include Him in every aspect of our lives as we provide a quality academic program, equipping students for higher learning and guiding them to a productive life in society.

Spotlight on Harvard Business School Club of Atlanta

November 26, 2013 by angishields

Burr Forman's Results Matter Radio

Spotlight on Harvard Business School Club of Atlanta

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Ed Shartar/Diversified Search

Ed Shartar is Managing Director in the Atlanta office of Diversified Search. Diversified is the 10th largest retained executive search firm and the largest woman owned executive search firm in North America with 8 offices across the US. Ed is a member of the firm’s Education/Non-Profit, Consumer/Retail/Hospitality and Private Equity practices. He has served in leadership roles with Fortune 100 companies in the US, Canada, and UK, worked with private equity owned companies, and serves in a number of nonprofit leadership roles.

Before joining Diversified Search, Ed was President and CEO of Experient, Inc., one of the largest companies in the event management and services industry. He led a team of over 600 employees in 10 offices across the US serving the hospitality industry. Prior to Experient, Ed spent thirteen years at The Coca-Cola Company where he was CEO of the Company’s Canadian operations, Coca-Cola Ltd. Ed’s other roles at The Coca-Cola Company include Managing Director of Field Sales and Marketing, Director of Business Development, and International Treasury Officer. Ed joined The Coca-Cola Company from Citicorp, where he was a vice president and Senior Banker in their Structured Finance and World Corporate Group divisions.

Ed has been honored several times as one of “The 25 Most Influential People in the Meetings Industry” and “The 100 Most Influential People in the Tradeshow Business.” While in Canada, he chaired the Canadian Soft Drink Association and was on the Executive Committee of Food and Consumer Product Manufacturers of Canada.

Ed is a native of Atlanta and has lived across the U.S. and in the U.K. and Canada. He and his wife Teresa were the parents of a special needs child. They have four sons.

Ed is also a Board member and VP Social Enterprise Initiative with the Harvard Business School Club of Atlanta.

Kathy Colbenson/CHRIS Kids

After a number of years as a practicing clinician, in 1987 Kathy Colbenson became the CEO of CHRIS Kids and found her calling. CHRIS Kids offers a values-driven Family of Services that provides trauma-informed, strength-based services through a counseling center, a training institute, eight group homes, a supportive housing apartment complex for single and parenting youth of ages 17 – 24, adoption services, and a host of in-home services designed to help children, youth, adults and families unlock their potential for self sufficiency and good citizenship.

J.D. McCrary/International Rescue Committee

Executive Director of the International Rescue Committee in Atlanta, J.D. McCrary was formerly the Director of Resettlement Services at Lutheran Service of Georgia (LSG). J.D. began his work with refugee services as their Associate Director in 2008. Prior to joining LSG, J.D. was Global Field Program Manager for Jumpstart International, overseeing a global non-profit program that provides employment and reconstruction services to war-torn Iraq and Palestine. J.D.’s overseas experience includes a volunteer stint with the US Peace Corps in Morocco. He has over 12 years of management experience spanning both the corporate and the non-profit sectors, all with an international focus. J.D. holds a Masters in International Development from Tulane University, with a focus on human rights, public policy and emphasis on Africa and the Middle East. He also has a Certificate in Non-Profit Management from Georgia State University and is a certified teacher with a B.A. in Education from Georgia Southern University.

Trace Haythorne/Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc.

Turknett Leadership 2013 Award Winners

October 29, 2013 by angishields

Burr Forman's Results Matter Radio

Turknett Leadership 2013 Award Winners

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Bob and Lyn Turknett/Turknett Leadership Group

Dr. Robert (Bob) Turknett is co-founder and CEO of TLG. He is a licensed psychologist with over 28 years of consulting experience. Bob specializes in CEO Consulting, executive team development and individual development and coaching. He has served as an executive coach to more than 1,000 executives in more than 100 companies, both large and small businesses in a variety of industries. His unique approach to coaching blends psychological expertise with extensive business knowledge. Typical engagements involve work with a leader and the entire team, producing leadership development results that impact the whole organization.

Carolyn Turknett is co-founder and President of TLG. She has more than 25 years experience in management and leadership consulting. The focus of her work is character in leadership, organization assessment and change, executive team development, identification and development of high potentials and succession management.

Turknett Leadership Group’s expertise is Leadership. We are Atlanta’s premiere resource for Executive Coaching, Leadership Talent Assessment, Executive Team Development, Cultural Assessment, Executive Selection, and more. Through an approach grounded in science and guided by the Leadership Character Model, we help organizations with hiring the best people, identifying and developing high potentials, and creating an ethical culture.

Jim McGarrah/Georgia Tech Research Institute

Jim McGarrah joined the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) in November, 2008, as the Director of the Information and Communications Laboratory, where he led over 200 research faculty, staff and students in delivering applied research solutions for sponsors in federal, state and local government and in the commercial sector. In May 2013, he was selected as GTRI Chief of Staff. In this role, he coordinates executive staff actions in the planning and execution of GTRI and Georgia Tech strategy, strategic communications, policy analysis and input, and ethics and compliance. He also serves as GTRI’s principal point of contact for state and federal government relations, and coordinates GTRI’s external advisory councils and boards.

Prior to GTRI, Jim completed careers in the U. S. Navy and with Southern Bell/BellSouth/Cingular Wireless, where he retired as a Rear Admiral (O-8) and Executive Director-National Network Planning and Operations, respectively.

Kathy Colbenson/CHRIS Kids

Andy Lipman/DiversiTech and Wish for Wendy Foundation

Marci McCarthy/T.E.N.

Marci McCarthy is currently the CEO and President of T.E.N., an award winning technology and information security executive networking and relationship-marketing firm. She is responsible for driving the strategic direction of this widely respected company.

McCarthy has over 20 years of business and marketing experience, including founding T.E.N.’s flagship program, the Information Security Executive® of the Year (ISE®) Awards. For over a decade, the ISE® Awards Program Series is lauded as the premier recognition program for security professionals. Previously, McCarthy was the CEO of Executive Alliance, an organization that hosts leadership forums and held management positions with Lancope, SecureWorks, Deloitte, and PwC.

As a 2012 recipient of a congressional citation from Rep. Henry C. “Hank” Johnson, Jr. (D-Ga.) in the 4th Congressional District of GA, McCarthy was cited for her work in fostering greater professionalism in the IT security industry, naming March 13, 2012 “Marci McCarthy Day” in Georgia. She was the 2013 Turknett Leadership Character Award winner in the Small/Medium Business Category, recognized in “Who’s Who in GA’s Technology Community” by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, is a “Woman to Watch” by Atlanta’s BroadSheet and WIT WOTY nominee.

McCarthy serves on TechBridge’s Board of Directors, is a lifetime member of WIT’s Honorary Council. Other non-profit boards include: Technology Association of Georgia (TAG), SciTrek’s Advisory BOD, past Chairman of the American Diabetes Assoc. Father’s Day Council and its acclaimed Father of the Year Awards. As an author to WIT’s book, “CLIMB: Leading Women In Technology Share Their Journeys To Success,” McCarthy’s chapter is profiled amongst 60 leaders influencing Atlanta’s business and technology landscapes. She has been a guest lecturer at George Washington University and is a speaker on technology and leadership topics.

She is a magna cum laude graduate of Babson College and holds a B.S. in Marketing.