Childress Business Consulting
Our Team
CBC is comprised of a team of business professionals with over 100 years combined of high level business experience. Our team has years of successful work in Finance, Strategic Management, RFP/RFI Editing & Writing, Marketing Strategies, Project Management, Business Development, Web Design, Corporate Communications, Product Development Dynamic communications, assessment of organizational needs, Program management, Entrepreneurship, Community Relations, Government Affairs, Sales and Marketing, and Commercial Leasing.
Through creative agreements, the customer only pays for the team members he/she needs for the project. We are able to do this by eliminating overhead for the customer. We build a custom solution for each client. We have no off-the-shelf packages. This custom solution ensures we bring you the resources needed for the best possible result without you paying for more than what you need.
Our team includes:
CEO and President
John T. Childress
ASSOCIATES
John T. Childress
John T. Childress is an experienced business leader
who has excelled at both starting businesses and
working within existing businesses to help them
grow. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from
Rutgers University School of Business. John is
certified as a trainer/facilitator in the Predictive
Index, Balanced Scorecard, and FastTrac tools and
programs.
John began his career at age 20 by joining the Domino’s Pizza management training program. After being promoted to General Manager, he built up his store sales to rank among the highest in per capita sales. As a result of this achievement, he soon built and owned his own store and in the process became one of the first African American Franchisees in the 4,000 store chain. His store consistently ranked at the top of sales in his region in Long Island.
After selling the store, John became a Finance Manager at Temple University. Here he also managed the Office of Community Service and coordinated several community service projects including a holiday celebration where Temple hosted over 500 children from families facing challenging circumstances. This led to him becoming Director of Health & Safety Services at the American Red Cross. Here John not only increased revenue from $1.7M to over $3M in just two years, but he helped launch programs that saved lives.
John was later recruited by Edison Schools of New York, NY to serve as an Area Financial Manager. In that role he was given challenging projects such as taking over management of the finances of their 20 Philadelphia schools. John worked with the principals to teach them fiscal management and work with school district officials.
In late 2005 John was selected to serve as Executive Director of the African American Chamber of Commerce in Philadelphia. He helped increase membership by creating a new strategic vision for the Chamber. But he is most proud of starting an entrepreneur training program there to assist people starting their own business. John also is an elected member of the East Greenwich School Board and serves on many city and regional committees.
In 2002, John established his own business management consulting firm, Childress Business Consulting (www.ChildressBiz.com), which has helped many small businesses and non-profits increase their revenue and manage their business. Over the years CBC has connected small businesses with over $3 million in new revenue and contracts.
In 2009, John was chosen by New York City Business Solutions to facilitate entrepreneurship to business executives. This program is conducted at the State University of New York (SUNY) Global Center. John has helped trained over 400 entrepreneurs to date. Recently, John was also chosen by Entrepreneur Works of Philadelphia to run a similar program in Philadelphia.
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Paul Goldsborough
23-year seasoned IT Professional with varied experience in Project & Operations Management,
Consulting and Technical Sales … Leading & managing business process design and improvement,
product lifecycle development, implementations, transition management, technical sales on a local,
national and global basis … Highly productive team leader; equally effective working independently in a
consultant role … Detailed-oriented, strength in problem solving … Strong interpersonal & organization skills …
Committed to excellent customer service.
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L. Renee Mitchell
Specialties
Seasoned Marketing & Client Services Manager with over ten years broad financial services experience with expertise in the following:
RFP/RFI Editing & Writing, Marketing Strategies, Project Management, Business Development, Corporate Communications and Product Development.
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Erik Reid
Erik Reid is a graduate from Temple University‘s Political Science Program. In addition he holds an MS degree
in Counseling from Springfield College in Delaware. His experience in direct services includes in- home social
work, one-to-one counseling and family therapy. He also has an extensive background as a technical assistant
in mental health programs. He was a major participant in establishing the strengths based program and served
as the coordinator for the Outpatient clinic. He has provided numerous trainings and workshops for community
agencies and has presented at several conferences among which was the BACW Conference in 2006 and 2009. He also
presented at the Temple Outcomes Measurement Conference in 2006. Mr. Reid was a co-trainer and presented more
than 10 workshops at social service agencies in the Greater Philadelphia area. Mr. Reid provides consultant
services for ABO-Haven, a workforce enterprise to assist young adults in obtaining employment. He is currently
the co founder of ASSET Builders Inc., non- profit committed to building strengths for youth and families.
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Luz Maria Rivera
Ms. Rivera is a bilingual business professional with over 15 years of business and administrative experience. She has set up and managed a wide variety of financial systems for many companies. Ms. Rivera has also built and trained office staffs including developing standard operating procedures and protocols. Ms. Rivera has also served as an office manager and staff development specialist.
Ms. Rivera got her start in business as an entrepreneur over 15 years ago. She founded several businesses and franchises both in the Philadelphia region and in Puerto Rico. This direct ownership experience gives her unique insight into what makes a business work and how to achieve results.
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