Pepper Bullock
Safe Harbor Consulting
Atlanta, Georgia
Area of expertise: Executive Coach
executive summary
Pepper Bullock is a Certified Professional Coach who works with board members, CEOs, lead executives, and high-potential candidates within organizations. He specializes in outcome-based coaching which begins with the client developing a personal or organizational challenge that guides the coaching engagement.
company
Safe Harbor Consulting is a leadership advisory firm. Our associates offer executive coaching, strategic consulting and mentoring for high-potential leadership candidates. Through membership in the Reach Point Alliance, Safe Harbor provides clients with a broad array of advisory services, while maintaining focus on a limited number of active client engagements.

Dixie Ann Hanes
Stewart M. Long & Associates, LLC
Atlanta, Georgia
Area of expertise: Financial Operations Consultant
executive summary
Dixie Ann Hanes has 35 years experience in financial operations and facilities management, with an emphasis on e-commerce and operations management.
company
Stewart M. Long & Associates provides independent, reliable and trusted financial assessment services for financial institutions, private equity firms, and middle market companies. With a combined experience exceeding 90 years, Stewart M. Long & Associates can identify and uncover potential issues that provides customers with vital information to maximize portfolio value and mitigate risk.

Leroy Smith, Jr.
Stewart M. Long & Associates, LLC
Atlanta, Georgia
Area of expertise: Small Business Consultant, Executive Coach, Financial Operations Consultant
executive summary
Leroy Smith, Jr. has more than 35 years of experience in the financial services industry and 10 years as an entrepreneur and consultant to small businesses and financial institutions.
company
Stewart M. Long & Associates provides independent, reliable and trusted financial assessment services for financial institutions, private equity firms, and middle market companies. With a combined experience exceeding 90 years, Stewart M. Long & Associates can identify and uncover potential issues that provides customers with vital information to maximize portfolio value and mitigate risk.

James R. Balkcom, Jr.
TalentQuest
Atlanta, Georgia
Area of expertise: Executive Coach and Mentor
executive summary
Jim Balkcom joined TalentQuest as a C-level executive coach and mentor. His broad-based coaching approach offers experience and insight to high-potential young C-level executives, CEOs who are in transition, as well as boards of directors.
company
TalentQuest has been strengthening organizational performance and advancing leadership for more than 35 years by blending the art of consulting with the science of technology. Our consultants and organizational psychologists deliver fully integrated human capital management consulting and talent management software that span the entire employee lifecycle, enabling organizations to maximize the value of their investment in people.

Frank M. Merritt, Ph.D.
TalentQuest
Atlanta, Georgia
Area of expertise: Corporate Psychologist, Corporate Succession Planner
executive summary
Frank has dedicated his career to helping organizations maximize the value of their investment in people, earning a reputation as a respected leader and a trusted advisor. In addition to leading TalentQuest, Frank also consults in areas such as executive evaluation, succession planning, board development, and general talent acquisition and development.
company
TalentQuest has been strengthening organizational performance and advancing leadership for more than 35 years by blending the art of consulting with the science of technology. Our consultants and organizational psychologists deliver fully integrated human capital management consulting and talent management software that span the entire employee lifecycle, enabling organizations to maximize the value of their investment in people.
Rob Berling
Berling Associates
Atlanta, Georgia
Area of expertise: Strategic Analysis, Business Planning, Business Process Improvement, Supply Chain, Performance Measurement
executive summary
Rob believes that highly effective executive teams continually challenge, validate and adjust their business assumptions. He assists client teams in identifying changes to more effectively and efficiently use their operational resources and relationships, while considering the interplay of information systems, business processes and employees' capabilities. By becoming the executive team’s trusted business advisor, this often leads to long-term client relationships.
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Berling Associates brings experience and expertise to projects that include business planning, business process reengineering, customer and product-market potential and profitability analysis, purchasing and inventory management practices evaluation, development of operations performance measures, and other areas. Berling Associates’ primary industry focus is service, distribution, assembly, and retail.
Mark Scheer
Mark Scheer Consulting
Shaker Heights, Ohio
Area of expertise: Brand Asset Consultant
executive summary
Mark brings nearly 20 years of marketing and brand management experience to help clients launch, refresh or continue to maintain a high asset value in their corporate, product and service brands. Previously owner and president of Scheer, Inc. advertising agency, Mark founded Mark Scheer Consulting in 2001.
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Mark Scheer Consulting leverages a virtual working environment to assemble the best talent from around the country for collaboration in tactical marketing execution at any level. From an initial strategic brand analysis to complete implementation of all prescribed media, Mark Scheer Consulting can create and manage every aspect of a brand’s reputation.
Stewart M. Long
Stewart M. Long & Associates, LLC
Atlanta, Georgia
Area of expertise: Strategic Financial Consultant
executive summary
Stewart’s most-recent engagements have been in the community bank arena, performing asset quality, earnings analysis and strategic planning, in addition to providing special asset and credit management support.
company
Stewart M. Long & Associates provides independent, reliable and trusted financial assessment services for financial institutions, private equity firms, and middle market companies. With a combined experience exceeding 90 years, Stewart M. Long & Associates can identify and uncover potential issues that provides customers with vital information to maximize portfolio value and mitigate risk.
Robert Hall
HRHRecruiting
A Division of HRH Consulting, Inc.
Atlanta, Georgia
Area of expertise: Not-for-profit recruiting consultant
executive summary
Robert’s 30 years with IBM has given him the necessary experience to identify and recruit exceptional professionals. Since leaving IBM, Robert has spent the last twelve years partnering with other companies and not-for-profit organizations to provide them with key senior-level executives and professionals.
company
HRHRecruiting is an Atlanta-based recruiting firm serving a broad range of companies and industries in their search for executives and professionals. Their primary focus is the executive, management and professional resource requirements for not-for-profit philanthropic, charitable and foundation organizations. HRHRecruiting strives to find the best-fit candidates for their clients, giving consideration to not only their products and services, but also their culture.
Kevin Sessions
TalentQuest
Atlanta, Georgia
Area of expertise: Talent and Performance Management Software Consultant
executive summary
Kevin has spent the last eight years helping companies maximize the value of their investment in people. By partnering with businesses both large and small, Kevin works to identify consulting and software solutions that improve how the client selects, manages, develops and retains its people.
company
TalentQuest has been strengthening organizational performance and advancing leadership for more than 35 years by blending the art of consulting with the science of technology. Our consultants and organizational psychologists deliver fully integrated human capital management consulting and talent management software that span the entire employee lifecycle, enabling organizations to maximize the value of their investment in people.
Rachel Finglass
TalentQuest
Atlanta, Georgia
Area of expertise: Talent and Performance Management Consultant; Client Relationship
executive summary
Rachel Finglass works with organizations to ensure that their talent and performance management solutions meet their needs. She is passionate about building long-term relationships with clients and ensuring the success of TalentQuest solutions within client organizations.
company
TalentQuest has been strengthening organizational performance and advancing leadership for more than 35 years by blending the art of consulting with the science of technology. Our consultants and organizational psychologists deliver fully integrated human capital management consulting and talent management software that span the entire employee lifecycle, enabling organizations to maximize the value of their investment in people.
Dr. Keith M. Eigel, Ph.D.
The Leaders Lyceum
Atlanta, Georgia
Area of expertise: Leadership and Succession Coach, Change and Integration Coach, Executive Coach
executive summary
Dr. Keith M. Eigel, Ph.D. is founder of The Leaders Lyceum, and author of the curriculum and delivery methods for the Leader Levels model for growth. His research and consulting work has significantly impacted leadership, change and integration in private and public companies, as well as civic and non-profit organizations.
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The Leaders Lyceum provides transformational growth of the best one-to-one coaching scaled to the group level. This helps close the gap between who leaders are and who they are needed to be, accelerate Leader Level growth, establish accountability systems for leaders to realize their full potential, and maximize client return on developmental investment.
Todd D. Williams
The Leaders Lyceum
Atlanta, Georgia
Area of expertise: Change and Integration Coach, Business Process Improvement Advisor, Client Engagement Leader
executive summary
Todd D. Williams is president and co-founder of The Leaders Lyceum. Todd manages the business development and organizational aspects to support advancing the Leader Levels model for growth of individual leaders, teams and organizations. The company has significantly impacted both private and public companies, as well as civic and non-profit organizations.
company
The Leaders Lyceum provides transformational growth of the best one-to-one coaching scaled to the group level. This helps close the gap between who leaders are and who they are needed to be, accelerate Leader Level growth, establish accountability systems for leaders to realize their full potential, and maximize client return on developmental investment.
James R. “Jim” Lientz, Jr.
Safe Harbor Consulting
Atlanta, Georgia
Area of expertise: Strategic Consultant, Board Advisor
executive summary
Jim Lientz brings a perspective of leadership experience developed in the public and private sectors, and leverages that exclusive perspective to provide strategic counsel to senior executives and boards. His decades of experiences makes him uniquely qualified to mentor CEO candidates for corporate clients.
company
Safe Harbor Consulting is a leadership advisory firm. Our associates offer executive coaching, strategic consulting and mentoring for high-potential leadership candidates. Through membership in the Reach Point Alliance, Safe Harbor provides clients with a broad array of advisory services, while maintaining focus on a limited number of active client engagements.
Heath Garrett
Georgia360
Atlanta, Georgia
Area of expertise: Federal and State Government Relations Advisor, Public Affairs Advisor
executive summary
Heath Garrett is an attorney, political strategist, and government relations expert who previously served as Chief of Staff for US Senator Johnny Isakson. Currently, he works with a number of candidates for state and federal offices and advises many clients on government relations and public policy issues. Heath is a founding member of Georgia360 Public Affairs and the law firm of Turner, Bachman, & Garrett LLC. In addition to his Georgia360 work, Heath leads the Southeast office of the Stevens and Schreifer Group, a media advertising firm.
company
Georgia360 is a diversified public affairs company assisting clients through all aspects of complex public policy development and advocacy, providing a broad array of communications services including issue management, community outreach, crisis communication, media relations and research. Georgia360 partners can handle virtually any state government-relations challenge, and have developed an evolving practice in connecting the private sector to public sector business opportunities.
Jud Turner
Georgia360
Atlanta, Georgia
Area of expertise: State Government Relations Advisor, Legislative Lobbying Advisor, and Regulatory Representative
executive summary
Having served as executive counsel to Governor Sonny Perdue, Jud provides strategic and tactical advice to corporate clients with interests that interface with the government sector. Jud's unique combination of legal and policy expertise make him a valued counselor to help clients translate broad strategic goals within the public affairs arena into specific measureable results.
company
Georgia360 is a diversified public affairs company assisting clients through all aspects of complex public policy development and advocacy, providing a broad array of communications services including issue management, community outreach, crisis communication, media relations and research. Georgia360 partners can handle virtually any state government-relations challenge, and have developed an evolving practice in connecting the private sector to public sector business opportunities.
Jeff Moore
JE Moore Accountants and Consultants
Area of expertise: Personal Forensic and Managerial CPA
executive summary
Jeff Moore draws on 34 years of professional accounting experience to assist clients with a wide variety of business and legal problems. Jeff is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Fraud Examiner, and Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor. He handles assignments involving small and mid-market companies, government agencies, and non-profit organizations. One of Jeff’s strongest skills is “bringing order out of chaos” in situations involving poorly functioning accounting systems, and fraud and business dispute cases.
company
JE Moore Accountants and Consultants is a non-traditional CPA and consulting firm that specializes in three niche areas: CFO and controllership services; troubled businesses and bankruptcy; and financial investigations and litigation support. Business owners, investors, boards of directors, CPA and consulting firms, law firms, banks, and government agencies retain us for accounting and financial projects, distressed and under-performing businesses, ethics violations, business disputes, litigation, and other special situations.