Biggest influence?

Bob Cohn and Jim Overstreet, two PR greats who I worked with in my first PR job.

Three traits every leader should have?

Listen. Be on time. Motivate your people.

What book are you reading now?

“The Best of Hal Clement” by by Harry Clement Stubbs

What are you binge watching?

“How I Met Your Mother”

The artist you cannot take off your playlist.

Jimmy Buffet

Biggest thing on your bucket list?

Visit the pyramids

Favorite Decatur spot?

Legacy Park

The best thing a customer ever said to you? 

“I want to recommend you to another potential client”

What’s your favorite quote?

On motivation…

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” 

— Theodore Roosevelt, “Citizenship in a Republic.” Speech at the Sorbonne, April 1910

On success…

To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. 

— Often attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson, it is an adaptation of a poem published in 1905 by Bessie Stanley.