: About Me

Beth Armknecht Miller, CMC, of Atlanta, Georgia, is Founder and President of Executive Velocity, a leadership development and coaching firm accelerating the leadership success of CEOs and business leaders from emerging to midsize companies. With over 2000 hours coaching seasoned, new, and rising leaders, Ms Miller has helped companies to become more profitable. With over 30 years business experience, Ms. Miller is a trusted expert to many.

She was named 2007 Rookie of the Year by Vistage, the international CEO coaching organization for which she serves as a group chair in Atlanta, Georgia; a Georgia Trend Magazine 40 Under 40 honoree; a Business to Business Magazine Diva and she was selected for the Leadership Atlanta Class of 2004. A graduate of Babson College the nation's #1 rated university for the study of entrepreneurship, Miller is a graduate of the Harvard Business School's Owner/President Management Program, a Certified Managerial Coach of Kennesaw State University, and is certified to deliver the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and Hogan Assessment Tool.

In addition to co-founding MA&A Group, a project management consulting firm named to Inc.'s 1996 ranking of America's 500 fastest growing, privately-held companies, Miller honed her management skills in finance, sales and marketing for Coopers and Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) and the Digital Equipment Corporation. A committed professional and personal volunteer, she is a past president of the Association for Corporate Growth and has served the Junior League of Atlanta, United Way of Atlanta, the Atlanta Opera and Young Audience's of Woodruff Arts Center, among others, with her time and considerable expertise.

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Leadership: Trick or Treat? For all you new leader-managers out there and you know who you are. Until recently, you were performing as a super-star engineer, programmer, scientist, accountant, sales rep, to name a few and then you were offered the opportunity to manage. This step up was what you had been working towards. It is a sign of success not to mention prestige and more money. Now, how long have you been in this new position? How are you feeling about your new role? Is this new opportunity a trick or a treat? And what about those managers who have risen up through the leadership ran...

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