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Career Spa’s Board of Advisors provide the insight and expertise critical to keeping our programs fresh and in line with current market trends and corporate strategies. They are the touchstone to the realities of the current economic environment and help Career Spa best serve the needs of our clients, both individual and corporate.
Pam Beckerman, Advisor
Peter Bourke, Advisor
Gary Jones, Advisor
Deleise Lindsay, Advisor
Lisa Morgan, Advisor
Mike Morris, Advisor
Gary O’Malley, Advisor
Cathy Perry, Advisor
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Pam Beckerman is a seasoned HR executive who partners with business leaders to advance strategic objectives by unleashing the talent and potential of employee communities. Currently the Vice President, HR for the Metro Atlanta Chamber, Pam has lead programs encompassing the complete employee life cycle. She has designed and implemented hiring, performance management, rewards, retention, leadership development, employee reduction, and organizational development programs in the consulting, banking and education industries. Under her leadership, Kurt Salmon Associates, where she was the top talent executive for 12 years, earned accolades as one of the Top Ten Consulting Firms to Work For for six consecutive years. She coaches individuals and teams on setting and achieving goals and working collaboratively and compassionately with colleagues to solve a wide range of business and career challenges.
Pam holds a BS in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and a Masters in Organizational Communication from the University of California at Santa Barbara. A member of SHRM, she lives in Marietta and enjoys volunteering, hiking by the Chattahoochee with her family, and reading.
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Peter Bourke is currently the volunteer Board Chair of Crossroads Career Network and a Principal at The Complex Sale, a sales training and consulting firm in Alpharetta, Ga. Peter has more than twenty seven years of experience in the professional services and computer services industry and prior to joining TCS he served as President of Spherion Corporation’s Outsourcing and Human Capital Consulting Divisions.
In addition to working with the Crossroads Career Network program, Peter also founded the Christ Centered Career Group program (www.c3g.org) and has recently completed a book entitled, A Better Way to Make a Living…and a Life. His background in sales leadership, marketing and operational management includes key roles with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), IBM, NYNEX, and First Financial Management. At Andersen Consulting he was worldwide Director of Business Development.
Bourke received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, as well as an MBA from Pepperdine University.
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Gary Jones, SPHR, is the Chief Human Resources Officer at Grizzard Communications Group with offices in Atlanta and Los Angeles. He has over 20 years of corporate level human resources experience in a diverse set of industries including marketing services, specialty retail, wholesale, and not-for-profit. Prior to joining Grizzard, Gary served as Vice President of Human Resources with Pike Family Nurseries. He has also worked as a management consultant in operations and human resources with clients in a wide range of industry groups.
Gary served as an adjunct professor at Mercer University (Atlanta campus) in the MBA program for nearly ten years and taught a number of course in human resources, organizational behavior and management. He has also taught doctoral level courses on personal development and management as a guest professor at two theological seminaries.
Gary has served in a leadership capacity on several boards and advisory groups in community and business organizations. He currently serves on the Board of SHRM Atlanta.
Gary holds graduate degrees in Administration as well as Counseling. Additionally, his professional certifications include Senior Professional in Human Resources, Licensed Professional Counselor (retired, state of Georgia) and Diplomate with The American Psychotherapy Association.
Gary’s primary hobbies and interests revolve around guitars, unsuccessful attempts to lower his golf handicap, and travel.
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Deleise A. Lindsay is the managing principal of D. Lindsay & Associates, a boutique management consulting firm that equips leaders and managers to achieve business objectives during a time of change. While other consultants may practice purely from theory, her approach is based on many years of experience helping people deal with the impact of mismanaged change. Deleise uses this experience to help leaders understand that their employees need to be focused, engaged, and productive during times of transition.
Prior to founding her own consulting practice, Deleise was vice president of F&H Solutions Group, a start-up human capital consulting firm affiliated with Ford & Harrison, LLC, an employment and labor law firm.
Previously, Deleise was the district managing consultant for DBM, a global human capital firm, where she led a high impact team of human resources professionals that provided transitional consulting services to a variety of Fortune 500 organizations in five Southeast markets.
Deleise has also worked as an international recruitment specialist for a healthcare company and as a member of the corporate human resources team for First Union Bank in Charlotte, N.C. As an entrepreneur, she owned and managed a retail establishment.
Deleise’s reputation for enhancing the human resources profession has been recognized by the National Society of Human Resources Management for leading an initiative within SHRM Atlanta that was awarded the 2007 distinguished Pinnacle Award.
Media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, CBS Marketwatch, USA Today Online, and National Public Radio (NPR) have solicited Deleise’s input and directly quoted advice as a nationally recognized expert in career transition services. With her engaging and thought-provoking style of presentation, she is also a well-sought-after speaker on transition and change management topics.
She has served as a mentor for Pathbuilders, an organization that is committed to shaping the future of high-performing women in business. With a personal mission to “encourage and motivate” individuals to discover and follow their passions, she found one of her most rewarding experiences was placing college students in academically supported internship and co-op positions during her five-year tenure with the Indiana State University Career Center.
Deleise holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education from Indiana State University.
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Lisa hit the eject button on her corporate career in 1997 after a 12 year career in human resources and marketing with Georgia-Pacific and Microsoft. Her love for the very technology that led her INTO her career in the exciting 80’s and 90’s became the basis for her new goal in life – to no longer get 500 emails a day! Lisa then took a crack at starting a golf clothing business having no clue if she’d ever make a hole-in-one as an entrepreneur.
A year after starting the business, a dear friend and former career mentor was diagnosed with breast cancer. Sadly, Lisa’s mentor died six months later. Life has a way of getting your attention. As Lisa says, “I started questioning everything– what is it really all about?” She sold the business.
Fast forward to January 1, 2000 -- the wee hours of the morning. Lisa is on a bicycle with 250 other cyclists waiting for the start of the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade. This group of naïve well-intended, folks were starting a year-long journey around the world as a “cool” way to celebrate the millennium. Lisa made it her personal mission to use the bike journey to raise thousands of dollars for breast cancer research in honor of her friend while trekking across six continents and over 45 countries.
Lisa returned to the states not having a clue where she was going to live or what she was going to do. She landed temporarily in Atlanta before finding her way to Austin Texas, where she has resided since 2003. Her desire to feed her passion travel passion, inspired Lisa to start a business that allows her maximum flexibility of time. Camco Services, LLC creates loans for affordable housing – singlewide and doublewide manufactured homes. This business allows her time to work on other passions – such as business development for a very cool company called VocationVacations – www.vocationvacations.com.
Lisa likes to think she grew up in the center of the universe – Chillicothe, Ohio – and will debate anyone who challenges this notion. She frequently makes it back to Ohio to visit family and on occasion takes a journey north to visit her alma mater Bowling Green State University. She finds herself spontaneously doing cartwheels across the football field – a throw back to her collegiate cheerleading days.
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Mike joined North Highland in 1999 where he continues to serve as a Vice President and management consultant. His career has spanned business and technology consulting. He has depth in strategy formulation, CIO services, complex program management, IT strategy and business process improvement. In recent years he has served as an account executive for Fortune-100 clients and managed large-scale interactive marketing projects. He has over 14 years of management consulting experience, having worked for Andersen Consulting and CMSI / Computer Associates. Mike serves on the board of the Notre Dame Alumni Club of Atlanta and is a member of the Ambassador program through High Tech Ministries.
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Gary O’Malley is a productivity specialist who has created and facilitated individual and team training programs for AT&T, BellSouth, Coca-Cola, Disney, Office Depot International Paper, Kimberly Clark, Northeast Utilities and Southern Company. He has trained more than 200,000 people in over 800 organizations at business meetings and conventions in North America, Europe and Africa.
As an author, presenter, and business consultant, Gary is not only a recognized authority on individual and team productivity, but is also considered by his peers as one of the nation’s leading facilitators in helping diverse work teams establish trust and maximize talents to achieve superior performance.
Gary and his wife, Kathryn, live in Marietta, Georgia. They have three children, four grandchildren and enjoy skiing, tennis, golf and antiques.
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Cathy Perry, PCC founded InwardBound Coaching in 2001 for clients who are ready to change the way they lead, manage and motivate themselves and others. Her favorite work right now: Coaching and training leaders to take Coaching deep into their organization. In particular, Cathy and her InwardBound Coaches have witnessed the newfound power of Teams who have their own Team Coach devoted to their success.
Before Coaching, Cathy spent twenty years in Corporate Marketing. As VP Marketing at Bell Helmets, she increased revenue from $31 to $72 million. And as Director of Marketing at an American Express subsidiary, revenue from card member direct marketing programs rose from $3.5 to $28 million.
In 2007 Cathy was President of the Georgia Coach Association where she has served on the Board for many years.
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