Leadership Atlanta’s 2023 class to feature leaders in education

By Maria Saporta

On the eve of its closing weekend retreat for the Class of 2022, Management Atlanta on Friday introduced the 86 members of the Class of 2023.

Management Atlanta’s new class represents a broad variety of professions – schooling, regulation, company, nonprofit, expertise, media, healthcare, politics and authorities – just like the make-up of the earlier 51 lessons.

Based in 1969, Management Atlanta  is without doubt one of the oldest repeatedly working coaching applications of its sort within the nation.

“We’re thrilled to welcome our 52^nd Class,” mentioned Pat Upshaw-Monteith, Management Atlanta’s president and CEO. “We’re proud to proceed Management Atlanta’s custom of bringing collectively the area’s most influential, engaged, and inventive leaders devoted to working collectively for the larger good. We are able to’t wait to see what modern concepts the Class of 2023 brings!”

The nine-month management program presents class members a possibility to study extra concerning the area by

collaborating in retreats, full-day seminars, service initiatives, dialogue teams, group excursions and different actions. Along with exploring vital regional points, class members will critically look at themselves as leaders, problem themselves to search out methods to be simpler and construct relationships of belief and understanding with one another.

Bentina Chisholm Terry, senior vice chairman of Buyer Technique and Options for Georgia Energy, would be the program chair for the Class of 2023

Georgia Energy’s Bentina Terry

“Management Atlanta’s program required me to be susceptible, get uncomfortable and study to be totally current with my class members for 9 months,” Terry mentioned in a press release. “It strengthened that as leaders, we should learn to hear, have exhausting conversations, domesticate curiosity and be really genuine. It has made me one hundred pc dedicated to the mission of the group, which is ‘to encourage members to tackle and train actual management dedicated to serving the widespread good.’ These instances demand braveness over consolation, and Management Atlanta supplies that have.”

The Class of 2023 can have a number of presidents of native universities, together with George French, president of Clark Atlanta College; Kevin James, president of Morris Brown School; and Nicholas Ladany, president of Oglethorpe College. Adrian Tyndall, dean and government vice chairman for well being affairs at Morehouse College of Medication (second in cost), additionally might be within the class.

The academic theme additionally will prolong to folks working for Ok-12 establishments. The category will embody: Lisa Herring, superintendent of the Atlanta Public Faculties; Cheryl Watson-Harris, superintendent of the DeKalb County College District; James Calleroz White, head of the Galloway College; David Howland, government director of Educate for America – Metro Atlanta;

Mini’imah Shaheed, CEO of  KIPP Metro Atlanta Faculties, and Camille Naughton, president of the Cristo Rey Atlanta Jesuit Excessive College.

A number of prime leaders within the basis and nonprofit sector additionally might be a part of the 2023 class: Joselyn Baker, president of the Grady Well being Basis; Mark Banta; president and CEO of the Piedmont Park Conservancy; Maryum Gibson, president and CEO of Jerusalem Home; Kari Love, CEO of the Atlanta Ladies’s Basis; Daniel Preister, managing director of Coxe Curry & Associates; Nicole Armstrong, CEO of TechBridge, Inc.’; Shan Arora, director of the Kendeda Constructing for Revolutionary Sustainable Design at Georgia Tech; Alieizoria Redd, government director of the Covenant Home; and Fay Twersky, president of the Arthur M Clean Household Basis.

A number of authorities leaders might be within the class, together with Christopher Nunn, commissioner of Georgia’s Division of Group Affairs; and Fitz Johnson, commissioner on the Georgia Public Service Fee.

The category additionally will embody representatives from a few of the largest firms and enterprises in metro Atlanta: UPS, Delta Air Strains, King & Spalding, IBM, Oglethorpe Energy, Southern Co., Google, PNC Financial institution, Georgia-Pacific, Baker & Hostetler, Real Elements, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Metro Atlanta Chamber, Truist Financial institution, Equifax, Financial institution of America, Cox Communications, the Coca-Cola Co., Atlanta Hawks/State Farm Area, Douglas County Chamber, Chick-fil-A, Wells Fargo EY, Woodruff Arts Middle, Emory Healthcare, Alston & Chicken, Georgia Energy, Bain & Co., Humana, WarnerMedia, American Most cancers Society, IHG Lodges & Resorts and the Shepherd Middle.

Right here is the entire record of the Management Atlanta’s Class of 2023

Felicia Allen           
President of US & SMB Advertising and marketing
UPS

Amy Ard
Govt Director
Motherhood Past Bars

Nicole Armstrong
Chief Govt Officer
TechBridge, Inc.

Shan Arora
Director – Kendeda Constructing for Revolutionary Sustainable Design
Georgia Institute of Expertise

Joselyn Baker
President, Grady Well being Basis
Grady Well being System

Mohamed Balla    
Chief Monetary Officer
Metropolis of Atlanta

Trebor Banstetter
Managing Director – Enterprise & Chief Communications
Delta Air Strains, Inc.

Mark Banta
President & Chief Govt Officer
Piedmont Park Conservancy

Robert Benson     
Associate
King & Spalding LLP

Maurice Blackwood
Vice President of Gross sales – Americas
IBM

Annalisa Bloodworth
Senior Vice President, Normal Counsel
Oglethorpe Energy Corp.

Robin Boren
Senior Vice President Finance & Treasurer
Southern Co.

Nelson Boyce
Managing Director
Google

Laura Brown         
Senior Vice President, Regional Gross sales Govt
PNC Financial institution

Sarah Brown         
Trustee
The John and Rosemary Brown Household Basis

Deborah Bruner  
Senior Vice President for Analysis
Emory College

Leslie Hazle Bussey
CEO and Govt Director
Georgia Management Institute for College Enchancment

Lori Chennault     
Senior Vice President, Strategic Souring and Procurement
Georgia-Pacific Corp.

Charlotte Combre
Associate
Baker & Hostetler LLP

Jennifer Dawson
Vice President, Inside Audit & Compliance
Real Elements Co.

Beautiful Dhillon      
CEO
Jodevi Consulting

Charlie Ebersol     
CEO
Teddy Brilliant, Inc

Damon Elmore
Govt Director
State Bar of Georgia

April Estes
Associate
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Sarah Fonder-Kristy
Chief Growth Officer
Atlanta Group Meals Financial institution

Heather Fortner
CEO
SignatureFD

George French      
President
Clark Atlanta College

Maryum Gibson    
President & CEO
Jerusalem Home

Jonathan Goins     
Associate & Co-Chair IP & Tech, Leisure Teams
Lewis Brisbois LLP

Alex Gonzalez
Chief Innovation Officer
Metro Atlanta Chamber

Sammy Grant
Principal
HomrichBerg

Vivian Greentree
Senior Vice President, Head of World Company Citizenship
Fiserv

Carl Hanna
CEO/Co-Founder
Evva Well being

Hilliard Hardman
President & CEO
Granite Holdings, Inc. / Woodleaf Companions, LLC

Nikki Harland       
COO
Paradies Lagardere

Lisa Herring
Superintendent
Atlanta Public Faculties

Philip Hill
Govt Director
Soccer within the Streets

Jillian Tellez Holub
Associate
McKinsey & Co.

David Howland     
Govt Director
Educate for America – Metro Atlanta

Cathy Huyghe        
Co-Founder and CEO
Enolytics LLC

Kevin James
President
Morris Brown School

Ted Jenkin
CEO
oXYGen Monetary

Fitz Johnson          
Public Service Commissioner, District 3
Georgia Public Service Fee

Tayari Jones          
Writer

Jon Eager
Head of Enterprise Growth
Treaty Oak Clear Vitality

Nicholas Ladany
President
Oglethorpe College

Michael Lan
Govt Director
Jabian Consulting

Shannon Longino
Senior Vice President
TRUIST Financial institution/TRUIST Group Capital

Kari Love
CEO
The Atlanta Ladies’s Basis

Pleasure Lybeer
Chief Income Officer
Equifax

Al McRae
Market President and Various Segments Enterprise Growth Govt
Financial institution of America

Katrina Mitchell   
Chief Group Affect Officer
United Manner of Larger Atlanta

Amol Naik
Vice President, Public Coverage & Authorities Affairs
Ting Web at Tucows

Camille Naughton
President
Cristo Rey Atlanta Jesuit Excessive College

Christopher Nunn
Commissioner
State of Georgia, Division of Group Affairs

Allison Padilla-Goodman
Vice President, Southern Division
Anti-Defamation League

Renee Pearson     
Senior Vice President Digital Transformation & Enterprise Engagement
Republic Nationwide Distributing Co.

Joiava Philpott      
Senior Vice President & Normal Counsel, Legislation & Coverage
Cox Communications, Inc.

Kama Pierce
Vice President of Technique, Advertising and marketing and Communications
The Woodruff Arts Middle

Vincenzo Piscopo
President/CEO
United Spinal Affiliation

Daniel Preister     
Managing Director
Coxe Curry & Associates

Joanna Value          
Chief of Public Affairs, Communications and Sustainability
The Coca-Cola Firm

Melissa Proctor    
Govt Vice President, Chief Advertising and marketing Officer
Atlanta Hawks & State Farm Area

Sara Ray
President & CEO
Douglas County Chamber

Alieizoria Redd    
Govt Director
Covenant Home Georgia, Inc.

Cliff Robinson
Govt Vice President & Chief Folks Officer
Chick-fil-A, Inc.

Hugh Rowden
Senior Vice President, Enterprise Progress Technique Director
Wells Fargo

Nabile Safdar        
Assoc CMIO, Emory Healthcare; Endowed Professor and Vice-Chair of Informatics – Radiology
Emory College/Healthcare

Regenia  Sanders
Associate
EY

Lawrence Sernovitz
Senior Rabbi
Temple Kol Emeth

Mini’imah Shaheed         
Chief Govt Officer
KIPP Metro Atlanta Faculties

Jeremy Silverman
Associate
Alston & Chicken LLP

Lisa Smith
Senior Vice President of Area Exterior Affairs & Group Engagement
Georgia Energy

Jeb Stewart
Proprietor
Xana Administration, LLC

Michael Stewart
Associate
Bain & Co.

Marcus Taylor      
Market President, Industrial Enterprise GA & LA
Humana

Travis Townsend
Co-Founding Associate & Monetary Supervisor
Townsend & Lockett, LLC

Fay Twersky
President
Arthur M Clean Household Basis

Adrian Tyndall
Dean and Govt Vice President for Well being Affairs
Morehouse College of Medication

Lesley Wainwright
Senior Vice President & Affiliate Normal Counsel
WarnerMedia

Tammara Warren
Regional Vice President for Georgia
Oak Avenue Well being

Cheryl Watson-Harris    
Superintendent
DeKalb County College District

James Calleroz White
Head of College
The Galloway College

Kimberly Wright
Govt Vice President, Southeast Area
American Most cancers Society

Cesar Wurm          
Vice President of Industrial & Income Administration, CMH
IHG Lodges & Resorts

Michael Yochelson
Chief Medical Officer
Shepherd Middle

Be aware to readers: Maria Saporta was in Management Atlanta’s Class of 2020, and he or she continues to be an energetic member.