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Chris Quinn Vistage Chair

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Chris Quinn: How The Marines Taught Me to Lead

Chris Quinn - Vistage Chair

Chris leads CE groups, Vistage Inside groups, a Trusted Advisor group and Co-Chairs Small Business, Key, Advancing Leader and Emerging Leader groups.

Chris is the recipient of numerous Vistage Awards including: Vistage Master Chair, Pat Hyndman Award, STAR Award and Multi-Year Chair Excellence Award

Meet Chris:

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  • Served in the U.S. Marine Corps as an Infantry Officer - Served two deployments to the Middle East as well as served as an Aide de Camp for a Major General 
     

  • As a C-level executive and entrepreneur, Chris has walked in your shoes. Like you, he’s felt the pain of hiring mistakes.

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  • ​In 40+ countries, in multimillion-dollar companies, Chris has held roles from sales to Corporate Officer & President. Along the way he stayed curious, questioning hiring, retention, and management practices based on poor predictors and cognitive biases. Ever the disruptor, he moved upstream by applying science-driven insights to talent challenges.
     

  • ​Helping growth-minded clients find, manage, and value their talent with psychometrics and KPIs requires a dynamic, insightful approach. Chris stays close, stays responsive as clients push through often uncomfortable change. The reward? Seeing them realize meaningful business impacts.
     

  • ​Chris comes from a long line of independent thinkers and doers; his mother was leaning in way before it was a book. Service was also important in his family; Chris continued that tradition as a Marine.
     

  • ​Giving back now includes coaching CEOs and emerging business leaders. With his wife, Chris also provides marriage mentoring for engaged couples.
     

  • 'Chris’ Why' as a Vistage Chair is best captured in this quote from author Eugene Kennedy: "Ambition is most mature not when you know what you want and how to get it, but when you understand what you possess and how to give it"

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Ana Quinn - Vistage Chair

Ana leads Vistage Inside groups, Emerging (EL) and Advancing Leaders (AL) programs as well as Co-Chairs CE, Small Business and Key groups

Meet Ana:

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  • Having built successful strategic partnerships in healthcare and consumer products industries, academia, and entrepreneurial start-ups, I am delighted to be leading the Leadership Development programs.

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  • Her focus and experience which allow her the opportunity to assess, organize and build while simultaneously inspiring individuals to achieve their highest potential. Her background in coaching, change management, marcomm, strategic development, managerial leadership, operational excellence, project / program management, and executive education provide the ability to explore and assess the potential of each individual and in turn, inspire them to achieve greatness.

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  • She has held senior positions in healthcare, pharmaceutical, consumer products, academia, and organizational development companies such as Baxter, P&G, Pfizer, Duke University, Lee Hecht Harrison, and Burger King Corporation. She co-founded an online business executive leadership program targeted to physicians which was awarded the Brandon Hall Excellence Award for 'Best Use of Mobile Learning' and was subsequently sold to a top tier academic institution.

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John Adams III - Vistage Chair

Meet John:

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  • Upon graduating from Yale University in 1962, John began his business life in his family’s Phillips Petroleum Co wholesale oil jobbership in Raleigh, NC. In 1977, after figuring out all the ways it wouldn’t work… he started sharing his hard-earned experience by conducting seminars and management consulting.

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  • Having operated his own companies for thirty-seven years, John is familiar with all aspects of family-run and closely held businesses. His clients have included a wide variety of business interests - from fast foods to oil jobberships, banks to ice plants, manufacturing to trucking, physicians to hospitals, environmental technology to computer technology, retail outlets to Arnold Palmer’s golf management company,

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  • For four years he was an Instructor for Dale Carnegie courses. For ten years he was a guest lecturer at UNC Graduate School of Business and presented workshops at four of the first five Annual Conferences on Entrepreneurship presented by Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

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  • In January of 2001, John was selected to join Vistage Worldwide, an invitation-only think tank of CEOs as a Group Chair. 

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Missy Orr - Vistage Chair

Meet Missy:

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  • Missy has a reputation for identifying talents and aspirations people don’t know they have. Always strategic, she facilitates her clients not only to meet their current goals but dig into their strengths and transferrable skills and spot unrecognized potential.  This, she says, “often leads to people growing in ways they hadn’t thought possible.”

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  • During a dynamic 30-year career in the pharmaceutical industry, Missy advanced to executive levels of her corporate structure. And she brought others along with her—as she helped colleagues develop as employees, managers and senior leaders, she strengthened the entire talent pipeline.

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  • Choosing to now focus on coaching is a natural evolution for Missy.  She believes that when we are faced with challenges or decisions, we often already know what to do but struggle to access the information. As a servant leader, her style is practical, empathetic and inquisitive; she asks intriguing questions to help clients uncover answers and pivot points as she helps them get to where they want to go.

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  • In her spare time, Missy uses her organizational and leadership expertise in service of multiple nonprofit boards. She is an avid runner and enjoys traveling the world.

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Emily Holland - Executive Assistant

Meet Emily:

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  • An admin pro through and through, Emily specializes in variations—in personalities, perspectives and ideas. As she’s climbed the ladder to executive assistant at warp speed, she’s made an art of zeroing in on each client’s work style and vision to offer laser-guided support as they bring their dreams to life.

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  • Emily finds Imprint’s focus on growth and empowerment incredibly motivating; she’s always enjoyed being part of something bigger than herself. Volunteer work anchored her during a rocky childhood; at 19, she struck out on her own, moving cross-country with $100 in her pocket. She survived and succeeded with tenacity and sheer determination. She learned to approach every situation—business or personal—with compassion and curiosity, honing her ability to walk in another’s shoes and find a solution for every challenge.

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  • In addition to her passion for work, Emily loves exploring new places and going on adventures with her two dogs. She’s a devoted history buff (“anything about the past that helps me understand people”), an avid hiker and a coffee connoisseur.

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Rachel Bishop - Senior Client Services Advisor, Southeastern Region

Meet Rachel:

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  • With a father having a career of almost 20 years with the US Coast Guard in Kodiak, Alaska, Rachel attributes her strong work ethic, sense of adventure, and commitment to family to her years growing up on Kodiak Island. Choosing similar terrain in the Pacific Northwest, Rachel got a BA in Journalism and Communication from the University of Oregon.

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  • Rachel moved to San Diego in 1997 and lived there for nearly 24 years.  In March 2006 she was hired by Vistage Worldwide, and soon became a vital part of their Client Services Team.

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  • As a Senior Client Services Advisor at Vistage, Rachel supports Chairs and Members by building lasting relationships enhancing the success of the Vistage community as a whole:

    • ​Support Chairs in achieving success, measured by having Peer Advisory Groups who are engaged, valued, and encouraged to gain personal and professional growth.

    • Manage relationships and provide problem resolution for Chairs and members.
       

  • In Spring of 2021, Rachel and her husband decided to relocate to beautiful Charlotte, North Carolina where she continues to work for Vistage remotely.

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  • Rachel enjoys performing in local community theater, cooking/baking, travel, and hiking on various Carolina trails.

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Lora Shipman - Social Media Strategist

Meet Lora:

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  • Lora brings over 30 years of marketing expertise to the Imprint Talent Readiness team. She kickstarted her career at Ernst and Young in Miami, where she fine-tuned her marketing skills within the Health Care Consulting Department. Later, at Sunglass Hut International, she broadened her knowledge in vendor relations, store manager incentive programs, communications, and employee training.

 

  • Since 2007, Lora has specialized in digital marketing, focusing on content marketing and brand awareness across various industries, including business coaching, data security, healthcare, and real estate.

 

  • With her diverse client background, Lora offers a fresh perspective to each marketing project she works on. She's dedicated to helping businesses, start-ups, entrepreneurs, and busy executives craft engaging content for social media, blogs, email campaigns, and more. Her aim is simple: boost brand awareness, attract the right clients, and position her clients as industry leaders.

 

  • Outside of work, Lora enjoys traveling, practicing yoga, and kayaking with her husband and Shih Tzu, Tatsu.

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