Program Description: 

Join internationally recognized authors, speakers, educators, and entrepreneurs Jamie Turner and Shannon Houde for an engaging fireside chat led by Ed Haines exploring what it takes to build a meaningful career and business with global impact. Drawing on decades of experience living and working across multiple countries, they'll share the lessons they've learned about leadership, entrepreneurship, reinvention, and creating work that aligns with your values.

From navigating cultural differences to building internationally respected personal brands, Jamie and Shannon will offer practical insights for professionals who aspire to be a solopreneur, grow their careers, build a global business, expand their influence, and create a life that's both successful and fulfilling.

• Jamie is the author of: Better: A Guidebook to a New and Improved You
  
• Shannon is the author of:  Good Work: How to Build a Career that Makes a Difference in the World.
  

Date:  Thursday, August 27, 2026

Location/ Timeline:  5 pm - 6:15 pm Networking, 6:15 pm - 7 pm Program;

Hosted by Jabian, 7000 Central Parkway, Atlanta, Lobby Level Private Lobby Level Event Room

Event Pricing: BABC members $35, Non-Members $65

Includes beer, wine, soft drinks, & charcuterie. Free on-site parking available. 

Speaker Bios: 

Jamie Turner

Jamie Turner is an internationally recognized author, CNN contributor, and

lecturer at Emory University. Organizations such as The Coca-Cola Company, Verizon, Microsoft, SAP and others invite Jamie to teach their executives about leadership and leadership development. He is the author of three popular business books (published by McGraw-Hill, Wiley, and Pearson). He is a regular contributor on CNN and other TV networks. And his Unspoken Rules of Leadership website and newsletter are read by thousands of executives around the world.  Jamie has been profiled in one of the world’s best-selling textbooks and is a keynote speaker at trade shows, events, and corporations around the globe. He has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, HuffPost, Business Insider, Entrepreneur, Inc. and other prominent publications.  Jamie is invited to speak at corporations and conferences around the world. In the past 5 years, he has delivered keynotes in more than a dozen countries including Dubai, the U.K., Italy, Norway, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Germany.

Shannon Houde 

Certified Executive Leadership Coach. Facilitator. Published Author. Connector.

Shannon is an ICF-PCC certified executive leadership coach guiding change leaders to overcome their blocks and achieve stretch goals while balancing their human sustainability for more than 20 years.  As founder of the impact sector’s first leadership and talent advisory company in 2009, she enables her clients to gain internal awareness and shape professional growth strategies that increase their interpersonal influence.  Having started her career in recruiting, Shannon has coached global change leaders from 25 countries over 4,000 hours. She builds on her own roles as a team manager, a business coach and a sustainability management consultant at Adobe, Deloitte, BlackRock, and WWF. She partners with C-suite and evolving leaders across tech, financial services, and consulting with a focus on women leaders, diversity, wellbeing, ESG, and sustainability.  Through fresh insights, tangible tools and live sessions, her clients build their authentic leadership presence including navigating complexity, motivating teams, gaining stakeholder trust, overcoming imposter syndrome, and inspiring behavior change.  Shannon’s clients appreciate her engaging energy and blend of pragmatism with both a direct and supportive style. Her coaching approach is underpinned by emotional intelligence, neuroscience, organimetrics, leadership assessments, and mindfulness.  As a published book author of 'Good Work', Shannon has also been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, The Guardian, GreenBiz, Huffington Post, Marie Claire, Real Leaders and SHRM. Shannon holds certifications in a suite of assessment tool including Leadership Circle Profile, Emotional Intelligence for Leaders, Harrison Assessment, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Korn Ferry’s Emotional and Social Competency Inventory (ESCI), The Game Changer Index, as well as in team coaching and neurodiversity. She earned an MBA from Thunderbird Graduate School in International Management and a BA in Sociology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. A multi-lingual American, she has lived 25 years in Chile, Italy, France, Switzerland, and the UK. Originally from Washington DC, Shannon spent 19 years supporting global change leaders from Cambridge, England. She has recently moved to Atlanta, Georgia and spends a few months a year in Biella, Italy.