Clearing a Path for Transformational Leadership
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SESSION INFO

Monday, August 23, 2021
3:00PM - 4:30PM
Session Type: Workshop
During this session, Directors and Chiefs will be able to have a candid conversation with our opening speaker, Aaron Montgomery. He will share insights into APPA’s upcoming executive leadership summit. If you’ve already signed up to attend the summit you will benefit from this intro. It is more important now than ever before for those at the helm of community corrections agencies to be BOLD and lead with unapologetic intention to transform our field. Words like culture, insight, transformation, and communication will be packed into this 60-minute session.

SESSION PRESENTERS
Aaron Montgomery
Chief Strategy Officer of Mission Lane, The PowerMBA


Aaron Montgomery is Chief Strategy Officer of Mission Lane, a Forbes Top 50 FinTech and Co-Founder of CarLotz (NASDAQ: LOTZ) a disruptive innovation in the used automotive retail market. Prior to CarLotz he was a consultant at McKinsey & Co. and a sales executive at Kiva Systems, a robotics company that was acquired by Amazon in 2012. In addition to his work at Mission Lane, Aaron is also an author, speaker, and instructor. He recently finished his first book Suspend Your Disbelief as a giveback to the next generation by sharing stories from his life and career He currently teaches Leadership and Strategy at The PowerMBA a platform that is designed to democratize access to executive education, and is a 3X Inc. 5000 honoree (2018, 2019, and 2020), a 2X finalist in EY's Entrepreneur of the Year Program (2015, 2019), and was named Executive Partner of the Year by the Society of Human Resource Managers (SHRM) in 2013. Aaron holds an A.B. in Economics from Harvard University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has served on the boards of the United Way of Greater Richmond and Petersburg and Junior Achievement of Central Virginia.