We can help you make your human capital investment truly strategic.
Atlanta Leadership Consulting is a talent management consultancy made up of four experienced consultants, bringing decades of experience in the fields of talent management, leadership development and executive coaching. Additionally, those consultants are connected with two networks of similarly-skilled people, which provides us with the ability to scale up for large projects whether here in Atlanta, elsewhere in the US, or almost anywhere around the world.
We work with many clients, from smaller firms of less than 100 people to Fortune 500 energy companies, and a Fortune 50 retailer, as well as several well-known not-for-profits. While this work is often consulting and “technology transfer” with Human Resources, Talent Management and Organizational Development staff members, we also work with senior executive teams on strategic human capital issues, and we do a great deal of executive coaching.
SAGDRINA BROWN JALAL, Principal Consultant
Sagdrina is an award-winning leader, educator, and consultant known for cultivating and delivering transformational experiences for executive teams, non-profit boards, and impact-driven professionals.
Leveraging her unique talent for engaging diverse stakeholders in solving shared problems, Sagdrina is highly sought-after for helping companies and organizations think creatively about their impact. From helping balance equity in Atlanta’s philanthropic community to assisting in awarding grants for organizations like Mailchimp, her work thrives at the intersection of community and innovation.
Through her most recent work as the Senior Director of Community Innovation at Atlanta’s Center for Civic Innovation (CCI), Sagdrina has partnered with Georgia Tech and Emory University to develop an exclusive program that uniquely invests in strengthening executives’ impactful work and creating sustainable results through self-care, mentorship, and capacity-building.
A graduate of the University of Georgia with a degree in Education, Sagdrina inspires learning and advancement in all of her consulting work. She was recently elected to serve on the board for The Lola in Atlanta and is working with their executive team to strengthen their Leaders in Social Justice Initiative. She has also served as the founding Executive Director for the Georgia Farmers Market Association, a board member for the national Farmers Market Coalition, a Well-Being Impact Area Advisor for the Community Foundation of Atlanta, and an advisor for Tuskegee University’s Organic Farming Project. In 2022, she collaborated with Black growers and farmers market leaders to curate an anti-racist toolkit that is now utilized by farmers market leaders across the country.
In addition to executive coaching, Sagdrina is available to facilitate trainings and deliver presentations about DEI, anti-racism initiatives, community development and outreach strategy, program development and implementation, and change management.
Phone: 404-271-0071
Email: Sagdrina@AtlantaLeadership.com
CLARKE PETERSON, FOUNDER & CONSULTANT
Clarke is an enthusiastic leadership development practitioner, executive coach, and the founder of Atlanta Leadership Consulting. He considers himself a “recovering” human resources executive with over a dozen years as a senior team member. He leverages that experience to quickly build credibility with CEOs and other senior leaders in client organizations.
As an Independent Associate of TalentTelligent Clarke offers design consulting and provides training to internal staff to facilitate the creation of effective in-house talent management programs. Additionally, his services are available to work alongside company staff to insure an effective program. For example, very often client organizations using 360-degree feedback ask Clarke to deliver the feedback sessions for more senior people.
An accomplished public speaker, Clarke is available to present on a number of human resource, talent management, leadership development and management psychology topics. He has delivered presentations on practical and effective leadership development at local and national conferences.
His expertise with research-based and experience-tested human resource solutions goes back to 1996 and includes delivering over 1,400 feedback sessions for people on five continents. He has also published peer-reviewed research on 360-degree feedback and development. He offers that expertise to organizations seeking to improve the strategic impact of their human capital investment.
Clarke holds a bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York – College at Cortland, and has completed the University of Michigan’s Human Resource Executive Program. Additionally, he is qualified to provide Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® psychological type assessments and training programs. He’s currently at work on a book about leadership.
Phone: 770-500-5815
Email: clarke@atlantaleadership.com
Julie Staggs, Senior Consultant
Julie Staggs works with organizations to define and implement organizational strategy, leadership development strategies, assessment, coaching, DEI initiatives, and talent programs across organizations from vital many to senior leaders. Previously, she consulted for Fortune 100 companies and top Universities during her work as a client partner for Korn Ferry Advisory.
Her consulting at Corporate Executive Board focused on innovation and strategic partnering in addition to teaching in the Corporate Leadership Council’s (CLC) Leadership Academies.
Senior executive and high potential assessment and coaching is a key component of her work helping organizations deliver on their mission and strategic goals through their individual talent. Her coaching helps organizations and individuals through change initiatives and in delivering superior and sustained outcomes.
Julie’s combination of higher education, non-profit, and corporate experience provides a broad perspective to ALC’s clients. These combined areas of expertise enable her to develop and deliver differentiating solutions for organizations. She is certified in multiple assessment tools and often trains leaders in a variety of useful models and tools. She is certified to deliver Masterclasses for certification for a number of Korn Ferry tools.
Over time she has partnered with multiple universities and organizations in strategic planning; culture/org design; competency modeling; inclusion strategy; leadership development programs; assessments; new program planning, development, and launch; and executive presence and communication skills. She has directed all project phases, including research, planning, hiring, training, implementation, and evaluation.
Julie has been a lecturer at the Terry College of Business at University of Georgia in the Professional MBA program.
Dr. Staggs received her bachelor’s degree from Converse College in music theory and religion, her executive MBA, with a concentration in leadership, from University of Georgia, and graduate certificate in Leadership from Nova Southeastern University, and her Doctor of Education in higher education management and leadership at the University of Georgia’s Institute for Higher Education. Currently she serves on the Board of Trustees for Converse College, the Board for LEADership, Business and Development (LEAD), National Society of Collegiate Scholars (NSCS), and as chairman of the Board for Global Health Action.
Phone: 571-970-7895
Email: Julie@AtlantaLeadership.com
Bill Dickinson, Senior Consultant
Bill is passionate about leadership. Believing that confidence, competence, and credibility are essential to strong leadership, Bill combines empathy and expertise to enable leaders, from varied industries, to thrive in their roles, and contribute influentially to the organizations they represent. Both results and relationships matter within his consulting skill-set.
With over 25 years of experience and capacity building, Bill has worked with all levels of leadership, and with a variety of companies: Abbvie Biopharmaceutical, Atlanta Tech Village, Cardlytics Technology, TireHub, Ameriprise, Synchrony Financial, ParkMobile, Coca-Cola Bottling, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to name a few.
With a Doctor of Ministry degree in Leadership Development, and as a Registered Corporate Coach, Bill would acknowledge that his sweet spot is developing people-leader skills and senior leadership teams. He is adept at creating psychological safety and trust with a leader, as they more effectively develop and manage those who work with and for them. In addition, he is the consummate executive coach who develops capacity building while ensuring business and performance outcomes are aligned. He recently led the High-Potential and Executive Leadership Development for both Cox Automotive and Abbvie’s Global High Potential Leadership Series.
Finally, Bill has over a half dozen leadership certifications (ie, Hogan and Decision Styles) and, he is a Master Trainer in Leadership in Context, a 29-day leadership curriculum: Self, One-to-One, Team, Organizational, and Strategic Alliances. He designs and customizes learning content, and his platform delivery and facilitation skills are excellent (10,000 hours). What’s more, he has dozens of micro learning modules to support virtual leadership development. Areas of strength are People-Leader Development, Team Cohesiveness, Self-Leadership and Brand, Civility and Credibility, Vision and Strategy, and as a Coach-Consultant in talent development, emotional intelligence, and organizational culture and change.
Phone: 216-544-0911
Email: BDickinson@AtlantaLeadership.com