The Steward Chair

Sarah Marske founded Saramar Group with a vision to positively impact the world by doing business with a higher purpose, creating social impact along with profit. She is passionate about partnering with people, brands, and organizations to bring their purpose-driven visions to life and create a real impact for their business, customers, and communities. Before starting the Saramar Group, Sarah led...

Future Successors in Atlanta, GA was born in 2012 by Niki Watson as the founder of the nonprofit. The organization encourages underrepresented youth to find their passion to live out their purpose by equipping them with entrepreneurship and leadership skills under FOUR PILLARS: Communication, Explore, Respect, and Believe. Jeff chats with Niki about her story of escaping poverty in Augusta, GA whe...

In 2006, Beth Armknecht Miller 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 capabilities and builds succession plans for organizational continuity. For business owners and senior leaders, Replaceable: An Obsession with...

Anita Ward is an Applied Cultural Anthropologist whose Ph. D. and career have been dedicated to culture, purpose, and the growth and transformation of organizations.  Considered a corporate shaman, Anita has led organizations that include JPM Chase, American General, Occidental Petroleum, and the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health.  She currently serves as CDO leading the...

James Carbary is the Author of Content-Based Networking, Founder of Sweet Fish Media (an Inc. 5000 B2B podcasting agency), Young Married Christian (a media company on a mission to end the foster care crisis), and Showcase (a SaaS platform that helps you build an audience). Jeff chat's with James about how he’s learned to reverse engineer meaningful relationships that have tremendously impact...

In this episode, we had the pleasure of sitting down with Brandon Hatton , the Author of Conscious Wealth: Money, Investing, and a Financial Awaking for the Person Who Has it All . Brandon draws on the wisdom he’s gained through his own experiences in life and amid his career as an investment advisor who endeavors to help his clients live abundant and intentional lives.  We unpack some...

Presenting a sneak peek of the newest show in Chat With Leaders Media Network, Future Health NOW hosted by Shavonne Reed.  Every day, there are public health crises threatening the livelihoods of our families and communities. While the novel coronavirus has taken center stage, there are several other escalating issues impacting our society, not limited to: mental health, generational poverty,...

Dalia Racine is the Douglas County District Attorney and today's featured guest. Dalia brings almost 15 years of prosecutorial experience to serve our community with specializations in homicides, crimes against women and children, and human trafficking.  Dalia has championed the responsibility of elected prosecutors to keep their communities safe by implementing innovative practices and polic...

Ashley Rutland and Tiffany Pearson-Kilgore are the Co-CEOs of Planned to A.T., a nonprofit organization that curates interactive game-style workshops to teach financial literacy and life skills to students and student-athletes from diverse backgrounds. They are both former classroom teachers and have 16 years of combined educational experience that ranges from Title I public schools to private sch...

Chris Sizemore is CEO of Creative Mischief , an Atlanta based marketing and branding agency, founded in 2008. As CEO, Chris leads the strategic mission to bring brands to life through a human-centered marketing approach that drives and inspires memorable experiences. This method of creative problem solving, and innovation fuels the creation of ideas that resonate deeply with an audience, drives en...

Vicki Flier Hudson is the Chief Collaboration Officer of Highroad Global Services , Inc., a company that exists to release the power of diverse teams. She offers executive coaching, presentations, and organizational strategy for working successfully across differences. Vicki has observed hesitancy in leaders to engage in depolarizing conversations. And they have some valid fears! They wonder, &ldq...

Join us for a coffee chat with  Jasmine Burton , founder of  Wish for WASH  and the  Hybrid Hype , who will be talking about her work as a social impact founder that operates at the intersection of innovation and inclusion. Jasmine is an Atlanta native, Georgia Tech College of Design graduate, a current MBA student, and a Social Impact Fellow at Emory University’s Goizuet...

Tim Huff is an Executive Coach and Leadership Advisor who has a passion for helping leaders and executives at all levels tap into the greatness that exists within themselves to lead their teams at their full potential and live their lives intentionally and unapologetically. With over 26 years of high-stakes leadership experience in the U.S. Army as well as multiple Fortune 500 companies, he has a...

Carson nourishes authentic communities by connecting people through food and entertainment. Crohn's disease forced him to think deeply about life, meaning, and purpose at a young age. After losing 18-inches of his colon, Carson “accidentally” completed a degree from William & Mary and left his career in real estate behind. Choosing instead to pursue his lifelong passion. Carson&rsq...

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 consu...

Glynis Lee serves as the Vice President of Inclusion, Community, and HR Technology, responsible for accelerating and actuating a world-class inclusive culture at Infor, LLC.  With her deep background in technology transformation, program, and project management – she has been able to inject an action-oriented approach to inclusion and community, focusing on systemic process transformati...

John is an accomplished business leader with extensive experience in CRM, Marketing Automation, and Content Management software in corporate and start-up environments. He graduated from Georgia College & State University in 2010 with a Bachelor’s in Business Administration, majoring in Marketing and dual minoring in Psychology and Management. John also earned the rank of Eagle in The Boy...

Shannon started her own journey of transformation when she realized what a terrible leader she had been for many of her team members over the years.  Growing up as the daughter of a bank CEO and holding Director and VP roles in large organizations did not make her a good leader of people. It took a Hero’s Journey saga of self-awareness and challenge for her to uncover and embrace her tr...

​​Kerry Mallory is the Managing Director for the Eastern U.S. region of Ronald Blue Trust. As Managing Director, Kerry is responsible for the client service, growth, and expansion of the company’s offices across the Eastern U.S. region. This includes providing leadership and oversight of offices in Atlanta, Georgia; Baltimore, Maryland; Charlotte, North Carolina; Greenville, South Carolina;...

Nipuna Ambanpola is a native of Sri Lanka currently living in the United States. Nipuna is a tech-for-good entrepreneur and strongly believes that technology has the capacity and efficiency to mobilize people to strengthen social impact across the world. In 2017, Nipuna founded IVolunteer International, a 501(c)3 tech-nonprofit in the United States with the vision of creating 7-billion volunteers....

Dean J. Fusto is a 2020 recipient of the Klingenstein Fellowship at Teachers College, Columbia University, and the President and Head of Brandon Hall School, an international boarding and day school serving students in grades 6-12. His career spans nearly three decades as an educational leader. He founded the teachlearnlead.net community in 2014 as a tribute to his heroes and heroines: teachers. T...

Chad is the culture, and people strategist who drives business results with the power of belief, purpose, and communication. Chad began his 20-year career as a labor and employment attorney, then transitioned to a senior business executive, where he learned how the power of people can impact an organization. In co-founding NICH in 2016, Chad sought to develop a resource that he wished he had as a...

Ayushi Sinha graduated Cum Laude from the Princeton University Department of Computer Science, received a certificate in Cognitive Science, and is a member of the Product team at Nines, a startup bringing AI to radiology diagnostics. Having co-founded her own startup, WellPower, a vertically integrated Uber for water filtration and distribution in East Africa, she is particularly interested in soc...

Tino Mantella joined Turknett Leadership as President and CEO in October of 2018. Over the course of his career, he has led some of the nation’s largest non-profit organizations as well as for-profit companies in diversified fields such as human and social services, health, and technology. Under his guidance, the Technology Association of Georgia and the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago became t...

The vision Ashley Jones had as the Founder of Love Not Lost came from her personal and heart-breaking story . Having a daughter with a terminal illness, and being gifted portrait sessions, Ashley wanted to pay it forward and started offering free portrait sessions to anyone she met with a terminal diagnosis. As she donated more and more sessions, she realized that something greater was taking shap...