Current Leadership Atlanta Class
The core of Leadership Atlanta's programming is our signature nine-month, executive-level series. We choose approximately 90 established leaders each year to represent a broad cross-section of metro Atlanta. Through retreats, full-day seminars, service projects, discussion groups and community tours, members explore critical community issues, examine themselves as leaders and build relationships of trust and mutual understanding.
Class of 2025
Tensley Almand
President & Chief Executive Officer
Atlanta Mission
Maria Armstrong
Executive Director/Founder
Raising Expectations Inc.
TJ Austin
Regional Loss Prevention Specialist
Publix Supermarkets, Inc.
Robin Bailey
Chief Operating Officer
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Terri Block
Senior Vice President, Atlanta Market Executive
Bank of America
Noel Bowers
Partner
PwC
Rita Breen
Charitable Giving Executive Director
Georgia Power
Kirk Brown
Chief Development & Communications Officer
The Ron Clark Academy
Madeline Chadwick
Chief Corporate Affairs Officer
Papa Johns International
Michael Chanin
Chief Executive Officer
Cherry Street Energy
Ellyn Cochran
President and Chief Executive Officer
Quality Care for Children
Jeremy Cole
Executive Director
Clarkston Community Health Center
Susan Coppedge
Executive Director
Georgia Legal Services Program
Audra Cunningham
Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer T. Dallas Smith & Company
Kimberlynn Davis
Partner
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
Mike Davis
Chief Executive Officer
Purpose Built Schools Atlanta
Dorothy Davis
President and Chief Executive Officer
Visiting Nurse Health System
Alexandre Drummond
Partner
Seyfarth Shaw
Robert Dumbacher
Partner
Hunton Andrews Kurth
Greg Dunavant
Vice President of Customer Operations
Gas South
Crystal Edmonson
Senior Editor of Community Engagement and Live Journalism Atlanta Business Chronicle
Fatima El-Amin
Chief Judge
DeKalb County Juvenile Court
Adrian Epps
Dean & Chantal and Tommy Bagwell Endowed Chair
Kennesaw State University
Gina Espinosa
Chief Executive Officer
Hope Beckham Espinosa Inc
Jake Evans
Shareholder
Greenberg Traurig
Sameera Fazili
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Zoon Ventures
Lauren Fernandez
Chief Executive Officer, Founder
Full Course
Brent Fielder
Senior Director; Corporate Social Responsibility
Chick-fil-A, Inc.
Marshall Freeman
Deputy Chief Administrative Officer
Atlanta Police Department
Greer Gallagher
Senior Vice President
Holder Construction
Barry Givens
Managing Partner
Collab Capital
Garrett Gravesen
Co-Founder
ADDO Worldwide
Felicia Hale
Vice President, Chief of Staff to the Executive Vice President and President
The Coca-Cola Company
Randy Hall
President & Chief Executive Officer
Batson-Cook Company
John Helton
President & Chief Executive Officer
CareerRise, Inc.
James Holmes
Senior Vice President/North Atlanta Market President
Truist Bank
Samir Idris
Executive Managing Director
Cushman & Wakefield
Asha Jackson
Presiding Judge
State of Georgia/ DeKalb Superior Court
Robert James
Chief Executive Officer
Carver Financial Corporation
Lee Jarboe
Vice President
JE Dunn Construction
Keyra Johnson
Vice President & Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer
Delta Air Lines
Rose Jones
Partner
King & Spalding
Natallie Keiser
Executive Director
HouseATL
Matthew Kent
Partner, Co-Chair Antitrust Practice Team
Alston & Bird
Katie Kittredge
Chief Financial Officer
World 50 Group
Danita Knight
President & Chief Executive Officer
YWCA of Greater Atlanta
Terri Lee
Chief Executive Officer
The Housing Authority of the City of Atlanta
Rodney Lyn
Dean and Professor
Georgia State University
Linda Matzigkeit
Chief Administrative Officer
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Nichole Miles-Sullivan
Vice President, Operations
Atlanta Gas Light
Anna Moore
Head of School
The Howard School
Brendan Murphy
Executive Director of the Bearing Witness Institute
Marist School
Elizabeth Murthy
Partner
McKinsey & Company
David Neal
President of Gypsum Business
Georgia-Pacific
Keisha Olinger
Partner and Atlanta Office Leader
Mercer, a business of Marsh McLennan
Shayne O'Reilly
Director & Associate General Counsel,
Global Head of Strategic Transactions, Licensing & Open Source
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Gilda Pedraza
Executive Director
Latino Community Fund
Ryanne Pennington
Atlanta Tenant Rep Broker Lead; Senior Managing Director Jones Lang LaSalle
Heather Prill
Senior Philanthropist
The Home Depot Foundation
Dalia Racine
District Attorney
Douglas County District Attorney's Office
Joyce Reto
Office Managing Partner
RSM US
Tai A. Roberson
Senior Vice President, Philanthropy and Community Impact, Southeast Sr. Lead
Wells Fargo
Terreta Rodgers
Executive Director of External Affairs
Amazon
Kareem Rogers
President, National Account Services
ADP
Taya Jackson Scott
Vice President, Chief Innovation Officer
Morehouse School of Medicine
Chirag Shah
Assistant General Counsel
Novelis Inc.
Mambu Sherman
Executive Director
Southern Communities Initiative
Suganthi Simon
Vice President, Mid-South, Global Philanthropy
JPMorgan Chase
Gregg Simon
Senior Vice President, Economic Development
Metro Atlanta Chamber
Suzette Smikle
United States Immigration Judge
USDOJ/Executive Office for Immigration Review
Jonathan Smith
Senior Vice President and Executive Deputy General Counsel Atlanta Braves
Stephen Smith
Of Counsel
Beveridge & Diamond PC
Dana Spinola
Chief Executive Officer
fab'rik
Brett Stefansson
Executive Vice President / GM State Farm Arena
Atlanta Hawks
Joel Stenson
Senior Vice President Operations Technology
UPS
Thomas Taylor
Head of School
The Paideia School
Yvette Taylor
Regional Administrator
U.S. Department of Transportation
Tommy Thomas
Associate Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Biomedical Informatics
Emory University School of Medicine
Winnifer Thomas-Cox
Managing Director, Health and Public Service Lead
Accenture
Jason Trujillo
Head of Emerging Markets Credit
Invesco
Heidi Veltman
Chief Operating Officer
Kaiser Permanente
DeAna Jo Vivian
Executive Director
C.T. Vivian Foundation, Inc.
Michael Waller
Executive Director
Georgia Appleseed
Cheryl Watson-Harris
President/ Executive Director
Achieve Atlanta
Thomas West
Executive Director
Atlanta Ballet
Matt Westmoreland
Councilman
City of Atlanta
Gyimah Whitaker
Superintendent
City Schools of Decatur
Annette Willis
Partner
Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders
Alicia Wilson
Chief Audit Officer & Vice President-Internal Audit
Southwire Corporation
Leslie Zinn
Chief Executive Officer
Ardens Garden