TeamUP is the next complimentary Business Advisory Services program from the Birmingham Business Alliance. Through TeamUP the BBA hopes to arm local organizations with the skills and expertise to create engaged, effective and exceptional teams.
Kicking off in October, the TeamUP program will consist of six months of hands-on workshops, as well as several one-on-one coaching sessions led by one of our four industry expert service providers: Mildred Black, Alison Grizzle, Autumn Sanders and Melva Tate. These experts have a total combined experience of more than 75 years helping organizations create positive work environments, retain top employees, implement more effective hiring practices and promote better management strategies.
Keep reading to get to know more about each of TeamUP’s service providers and what you can expect to learn from each of them. Contact Victor Brown with questions about the program.
Mildred Black is the Founder and CEO of People Optimum Consulting, a minority-owned and Woman-Owned Small Business with over 20 years of Human Resources experience. She has helped thousands of leaders with strategy, labor law, diversity equity & inclusion, leadership, and workplace nuances.
Mildred is a speaker, lecturer, and storyteller who has addressed audiences at professional events around the world. In 2021 The Wall Street Journal recognized her as a Diversity+Business expert. Her focus on culture has improved the employee experience at hundreds of organizations including Mercedes-Benz, Allstate, and Target.
Dr. Alison Grizzle is an experienced educator, facilitator, speaker, trainer and leader. She has worked for over 20 years across industries to align company strategy with people strategy.
Alison focuses on using behavioral analytics to help organizations better hire, manage and keep top talent. Her expertise and coaching will equip any organization’s leaders with the skills to consistently make better decisions around staffing and managing for more consistent success.
Autumn Sanders has worked with Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, and nonprofits since 2010 by helping them understand their customers. She launched Quire Consulting in 2017 to bring ethnographic research and design thinking to organizational leaders looking for a way forward who aren’t sure how to get there.
Autumn focuses on design thinking to help her clients grow new businesses with a human-centered design process. Autumn also serves on the City of Birmingham’s Small Business Council.
Melva Tate lives by one rule: “Put in the work.” She recruits, coaches and runs her award-winning business according to that rule.
For more than 20 years Melva has been working in the Human Resources field to help organizations navigate the ins and outs of managing people effectively. Since 2008 she has run Tate & Associates, LLC, which specializes in executive talent searches, human resource consulting, training and development, and career coaching.
Each of these service providers has a unique perspective on how to approach organizational problems with people-focused solutions. If you are interested in learning from Mildred, Alison, Autumn and Melva make sure you apply now to be a part of the TeamUP cohort.