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Darcy has coached, inspired, and motivated change for individuals and teams at companies including Wachovia, The Home Depot, The Coca-Cola Company, AOL, Biogen Idec, and Verizon. She also has been a featured speaker for the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), the Public Relations Society of American (PRSA), the Credit Insurer’s Association, and Best Buy’s Women’s Leadership Forum (WoLF). Her coaching expertise has been cited in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Modesto Bee, Atlanta Business Chronicle, ABCnews.com, and CareerBuilder.com.

Before founding her company, Darcy was a Principal, Internal Coach, and Senior Communication Consultant at Hewitt Associates, a top human resources consulting firm. She served on Hewitt’s national Communication Leadership team and led the Communication Consulting business in the Southeast US. In that role, she was responsible for developing and retaining successful people and teams, helping clients create better results, and managing a healthy, growing bottom-line. At Hewitt, Darcy also innovated an Associate Coaching program, designed to support associate retention and growth in ways that made a tangible difference to the company and its clients. She coached associates one-on-one, plus coached teams accountable for serving multi-million dollar, complex client relationships.

Darcy holds the Associate Certified Coach (ACC) credential from the International Coach Federation (ICF). She is the 2010 president-elect of the Georgia Coach Association, and graduated from Northwestern University.

William Crossley was born in Columbus, OH after which he was educated and raised around the world as a military child. After attending several Universities from Sophia University in Tokyo to Georgia Tech, Bill graduated from Mercer University.

During Bill’s 28-year career in the Army, he commanded field artillery units at every level from Lieutenant to Brigadier General.  He retired in 1988 after three years as Chief of Staff – V Corps in Germany, where he was selected by Colin Powell.

 Retirement last a whole 10 days before Bill was bitten by the entrepreneurial bug. He co-founded and successfully ran various entrepreneurial ventures before settling down for retirement.

As a retiree, Bill now writes business books with a twist. His first was H2 which was an espionage thriller set in Europe and more recently Build it! Run it! Sell it! (BIRISI)- a business book disguised as a novel, that comes out in the next couple of weeks.

Short Introduction to Build it! Run it! Sell it!
BIRISI is a business book disguised as a humorous novel, with a plot that makes for an entertaining and informative read.  Set in the disparate worlds of sailing aboard luxury yachts and women’s high fashion, BIRISI is organized around the framework of the entrepreneur’s mantra—Build it! Run it! Sell it!—into which are woven the imperatives of a multi-million dollar entrepreneurial enterprise and the structuring of a deal that investing angels and green card seekers can’t refuse.

A long time resident of Atlanta, Jim moved to Marietta in 1980 while he was working with AT&T. He spent 36 years with AT&T and affiliated AT&T companies progressing through positions of greater responsibility up to Area Vice President. Jim retired from AT&T in 2001 and went on to work for OFS, Conklin Corp., Carbon Motors, Ameriprise Financial and Penn Mutual, before finally settling into a slower paced life.

He has remained active with Georgia Tech teaching financial planning and supporting the alumni organization through the Cobb Georgia Tech Executive Network group as a coach and mentor for senior level graduates in career transition. Jim is also a member of the Kettering Executive Group.

Jim first came to Atlanta to attend Georgia Tech where he received a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration majoring in finance. He is also a graduate of the Executive Program at Penn State.

His has 3 grown children, and 8 grandchildren, and lives with his wife of 44 years in East Cobb. His hobbies include golf, bridge, motorsports and writing. His book “LifeSpan Financial Mapping” is listed with Amazon.com.

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Mark is the co-founder and CEO of ExecuThink. ExecuThink helps professionals achieve peak brain performance, as well as reverse the effects of normal age-related cognitive decline, by delivering unique coach-led and scientifically proven programs to both individuals and corporate customers.

Mark brings 20 years of marketing and business development experience from the Telecom and Technology industries, including serving in executive and leadership positions at Redknee Solutions, Glenayre Electronics, Lucent Technologies and AT&T.

In these roles, Mark has led efforts to open new markets in Asia, Africa and Europe, has created market-leading and award-winning new customer innovations, forged strategic partnerships with leading companies such as Huawei and Microsoft, while staying focused on rapidly evolving customer and market needs.

Dr. Avner Stern is the co-founder and Chief Science Officer of ExecuThink.

For more than three decades as a psychologist, Avner has served as an educator, clinician and consultant, specializing in the evaluation of attention deficit and learning disorders in children, adolescents and adults. He has consulted in the areas of human resource selection of executives and security personnel. He currently serves as a consultant and reviewer to state professional licensing boards.

Avner helped to pioneer cognitive training in the U.S, and is now one of the nation’s most experienced clinicians in that field. Avner supervises all ExecuThink brain training to ensure that clients receive maximum benefit from the program.

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Lynne Saunders is Founder and Executive Director of Papa’s Pantry, The Master’s Training Center, and Christian Community News. She is also the author of the book “21st Century Keys to Employment,” which will be available this spring.

Born in Miami and raised in South Florida. There she met her husband, Bill, of 30 years. They have three grown daughters and 3 grandchildren, which includes a set of twins. Lynne has Sophie- her beloved dog who is glad to go to work with her every day.

She moved to Woodstock 16 years ago from Charlotte, NC where she was in real estate and magazine publishing. She now lives in Towne Lake, attends Mt. Paran Church of God and sings in the choir.

Lynne founded the non-profit organization, Papa’s Pantry, in 1998 at a time when she still held a full time corporate position with The Home Depot. The pantry was located in her basement during the first 5 years. She delivered the much need groceries to families at their home, but found herself digging in deeper to help families with employment losses, budgetary guidance, nutrition ideas, and much more.

Five years later, Lynne left her job to take Papa’s Pantry from a part-time to a full-time ministry. The mission is to help people get out of financial crisis and into stability using a holistic approach. There are two pantry locations; the main office is in Woodstock, and a satellite in Canton.
 
The formal education division, “The Master’s Training Center” opened Fall of 2009 at the Woodstock location. This made the stability classes available to everyone in the community, not just food recipients.

Lynne has been life coaching for 13 years. One of the most popular workshops she conducts is on employment strategies. Even in a down economy, she has been able to keep up with the many changes within the marketplace to help people continue to find employment.

Lynne also sits on the Board of Directors for Cherokee FOCUS, an organization devoted to at-risk youth. She is a member of the Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce and the Cherokee County Ministerial Association.

Lynne is a life coach, writer, trainer, business developer and creator of the Life Balance Organizer, a time management and goal setting tool. She loves to inspire others and to make a lasting impact in their lives.

Tom Murphy (“Murph”) is the President of Murphy Custom Builders (MCB), a custom design and remodeling company located in Alpharetta, Georgia. 
MCB specializes in full turn-key design/build services for Kitchens, Master Bath Suites and Basements.  Tom started the company in 2007 after retiring from a successful 29 year career at United Parcel Service (UPS).

While at UPS, Tom held a variety of  positions in Engineering, Operations and  most recently Regulatory Compliance and Internal Audit where he was Corporate Compliance Coordinator
and Internal Audit Coordinator for all aspects of Regulatory Compliance including the areas of Environmental, OSHA, Dangerous Goods and Hazardous Materials, Transportation and more.
Tom served as United Way Campaign coordinator in the Louisiana District, the Indiana District and West Region (10 States) before coming to Atlanta in 2000.  While at the corporate headquarters, Tom served as the corporate-wide coordinator for the United Way Alexis de Toqueville Society (givers of over $10,000 annually) growing the membership from fifteen to over fifty in three years.  He also has participated in more than fifteen Habitat for Humanity builds in 6 cities.

Tom served in the U.S. Army for three years and used the G.I. Bill to graduate from the University of Illinois with a B.S. in Thermo-Mechanical Engineering . He remains active in the local community, serving  Habitat for Humanity and most importantly Shamrockin’ for a Cure, Atlanta’s premier event for the benefit of  the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. For he last three years Tom has been both on the committee of Shamrockin and also a generous sponsor where where Murphy Custom Builders  proudly contributes remodeling projects as part of the Live Auction.

Mary Guiney is the Founder and Executive Chairman of ShamRockin’ for a Cure, an annual fundraiser to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Under her stewardship, ShamRockin’ has raised over $270,000 in just 3 years, and expects to exceed more than $250,000 in 2012.

Mary and her husband, Chris, founded ShamRockin’ in 2009 to raise money to fund research for a cure for Cystic Fibrosis. Mary’s vision has driven ShamRockin’ to realize the venture philanthropy platform that the CF Foundation pioneered.  Mary leads all aspects of the event, including Sales, Marketing, Accounting and Finance, Operations, Press & Media, Social Media, Logistics, and Sponsor Relations.  Mary & Chris were recognized by the CF Foundation in 2011 for their Leadership, being named Volunteers of the Year.

Prior to ShamRockin’ for a Cure, Mary worked as an executive for Kemper Insurance and American International Group (AIG), in both Atlanta, GA and Washington, DC, where she led marketing, pricing and negotiation of complex insurance contracts and financial instruments. 

Mary graduated from the State University of New York at Albany with a degree in Economics. She is active in the local community, serving as VP of the Birmingham Falls Foundation, benefiting Birmingham Falls Elementary School; Grade Level Chair for Science Lab at Birmingham Falls Elementary School; Director of Nursery Ministries at Stonecreek Church; and Booster Club member for the Alpharetta Youth Football Association and Alpharetta Youth Lacrosse.  Mary is a licensed real estate agent and enjoys competing in triathlons and marathons, tennis, downhill skiing and waterskiing.

Mary and her husband Chris have three boys and live in Milton, Georgia.

For more information on Shamrockin’ For a cure, please visit www.shamrockinforacure.com

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Craig Belnap is an energetic business executive with extensive broad-based experience leading businesses in the US, Asia and Europe.  Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, with shameful French, Craig has an extensive background in global operations, business management, and human resources. He is deeply experienced with Joint Ventures, well versed in Mergers & Acquisitions and enthusiastic about enhancing the competitiveness of global enterprises by developing long-term organizational, operational, and financial capabilities.

Craig joined Alcoa in 1995 and has run global operations with assignments in the US, China and Switzerland. In the late 90’s, Craig held the position of Operations Director for Alcoa’s Equipment Manufacturing division with sales throughout the world. In 2000 he transferred and moved his family to Shanghai, China where he was General Manager of the Foil Manufacturing business and then Managing Director of Operations for Rolled-Products in China. In 2003, he was asked to establish a Human Resource function for Alcoa in Beijing, China, which now serves 24 locations in 9 countries in Asia Pacific. For the past 5 years, Craig was the President of Alcoa Architectural Products (AAP)—a $350M business with operations in the US and France.  Early in his career, Craig worked in the US aerospace industry in roles such as engineering and new product design.
 
Craig is a “Leaders for Manufacturing” Fellow of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he obtained two Masters Degrees, one in Management and another in Materials Science and Engineering. He attended Brigham Young University for his Undergraduate Studies.  Additional notable events include being interviewed by Forbes Magazine on the development and launch of EcoClean™ and featured in CHO World (A Chinese Publication) in Feb 2007 on the topic: “Alcoa: Building Diversity, Developing Women Leaders”

Kris Wustrow is the Managing Director of Our Team In China, an action-oriented consultancy helping American firms with their China strategy, specifically market entry, marketing, sales, sourcing and production assurance. With offices in Atlanta and Shanghai, and a soon-to-be-opened office in Beijing,
 
Kris holds an M.B.A. in finance from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM) at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, a business school ranked in the world’s top 100 programs by The Economist magazine’s Intelligence Unit. He also earned his B.A. in both political science and history from the University of South Carolina. A native of Greenville, South Carolina, Kris graduated from Wade Hampton High School.
 
For nearly four years, Kris has been living and working in China, first studying both Chinese language and Chinese consumer behavior and now with Our Team In China, LLC. He is conversational and functionally literate in Mandarin Chinese and passed a national Chinese written examination. Prior to his living abroad, Kris served in various management, consultant and specialist positions for multi-national corporations such as Siemens, P&O Nedlloyd, Merrill Lynch, as well as for other smaller, start-up enterprises. At the age of 35, his vast industry experience ranges from political campaign management and governmental lobbying to publishing to finance to supply-chain optimization.

John has more than 30 years of experience in sales, marketing and engineering. That includes executive experience with leading-edge Fortune 500 high-technology companies, and pre-IPO companies where he was an officer of the company and member of the senior management team. He has held P&L responsibility and managed direct and indirect sales channels in North America, Europe and Asia. His teams have consistently enabled profitable revenues, improved customer satisfaction, and increased market share.

John was the Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Enpirion, Inc. and led a successful turn-around in achieving profitability.  As the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Galvantech, his strategy and management led the company to record sales and a successful acquisition by Cypress Semiconductor Corp. Prior to Galvantech, he was the Vice President of Sales at Equator Technologies Inc, where he captured the company’s first publicly announced design-win with Tektronix, and also managed the due diligence activities for private equity placement from Sony, Canon, Hitachi and others. Previous management positions include Director of Worldwide Strategic Sales at AMD and similar positions at Sharp Microelectronics and Avex Electronics.

Mr. Corbitt holds a BSEE from Florida International University and began his career in biomedical engineering, working with implantable pacemakers at Cordis Corporation in Miami FL. Then he followed his interest in radio communications and designed digital pagers with Motorola in Plantation FL, before making a career change to sales, and joining Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
Mr. Corbitt has been a frequent author and been published in Electronic News, PC Magazine, Upside, Business Geographics, Electronic Business, TechLINKS, and EDN.  He is a volunteer  with the High Tech Ministry, and active with the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG), Executive Sales and Marketing Association (ESMA), The Indus Engineers (TiE), and the Kettering Executive Network (KEN).