Our Mission

We support the people who move East Tennessee communities forward through education, collaboration, and connection. We bring together the doers, helpers, and service-minded leaders creating positive change and building stronger communities.

Core Values

  • Engaged: Every event and conversation here is built for you to jump in and take part.

  • Collaborative: We build this alongside you, with people and organizations across East Tennessee working toward the same goal.

  • Purposeful: Everything we do, from the conference to the workshops, has a reason behind it.

  • Committed: We keep showing up for the people who count on us.

Meet The Team

President: Jamie Bate
Secretary: Robert McClelland
Treasurer: Regina Jennings

We focus on the doers, the helpers, and the service‑minded individuals who create momentum within our community — not just leaders in a formal sense. We create workshops that people enjoy, use, and carry back into their daily work, offering learning that sparks collaboration and change. And we treat connection as essential to our mission, building the ties that hold a community together rather than treating networking as a bonus.