Beth Miller
Beth Armknecht Miller, CMC, of Atlanta, Georgia, is a Vistage Chair and President of Executive Velocity, a leadership development and coaching firm accelerating the leadership success of CEOs and business leaders from emerging to midsize companies..
She was named 2007 Rookie of the Year by Vistage, the international CEO coaching organization for which she serves as a group chair in Atlanta, Georgia; a Georgia Trend Magazine 40 Under 40 honoree; a Business to Business Magazine Diva and she is a member of Leadership Atlanta Class of 2004. A graduate of Babson College the nation’s #1 rated university for the study of entrepreneurship, Beth is a graduate of the Harvard Business School’s Owner/President Management Program, a Certified Managerial Coach of Kennesaw State University, and is certified to deliver the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, Hogan Leadership Assessment and WorldBlu. In addition, she holds certificates in Strategic Workforce Planning from the Human Capital Institute, and Facilitation and Advanced Facilitation from Leadership Strategies Institute.
Prior to Vistage, Beth co-founded MA&A Group, a project management consulting firm named to Inc.’s 1996 ranking of America’s 500 fastest growing, privately-held companies. She honed her management skills in finance, sales and marketing for Coopers and Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) and the Digital Equipment Corporation. A committed professional and personal volunteer, she is a past president of the Association for Corporate Growth and has served on the boards of Junior Achievement, the Junior League of Atlanta, and Georgia Council on Economic Education.
Beth Armknecht Miller, CMC
Recent Posts by Beth
When it comes to the development of your team playing the role of mentor and coach can be beneficial to their development. These two terms Read More
I recently worked with an insurance executive and business owner who had a receptionist who demonstrated many high potential behaviors. Within six months he had Read More
As a consultant and coach, I have experienced a lot of company cultures over the years both good and bad. The worst are the companies Read More
You know about personal branding—what makes you unique to the workplace and how to leverage that for the best career opportunities; you also know about Read More
In past posts, I have discussed the value of emotional intelligence, commonly called EQ or EI. Daniel Goleman developed a theory of emotional intelligence in Read More
The degree to which employees are engaged with their work at your company has a significant impact on how successful your company can be, and Read More
What is a leader to do when one of their top team members starts to fade? What happens with high potentials that lose their shine? Read More
One of the tools I have found beneficial for both team building and executive coaching is the Johari Window. Do you have a good view Read More
Scientists, engineers, programmers and other technical experts have a difficult time letting go of their work product because they start as a lone expert in Read More
All across the country I hear a call of desperation from leaders “millennials are a different breed, how do we lead them?” They aren’t like Read More
Have you ever been in a meeting where one person decided to display a negative attitude? You know, the person who starts reading his PDA, Read More
Leaders can spend more time talking and less time listening to their team members and generally it is because the questions they ask are not Read More
The culture of entitlement is rampant in corporate America. Whether someone has been an executive for years and believes they just need to show up Read More
In the last post on behavioral interviewing, I discussed how to purposefully create and develop a system of questions when using behavioral interviewing to Read More
As a leader, you want your employees engaged, motivated, and eager to come to work. At the same time, you know that everyone looks forward Read More
Creating a work environment where leaders and employees feel comfortable and safe telling the truth is a critical component to organizational success. But, in reality, Read More
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. –Jack Welch
The Read More
Maintaining a system of progression within a company gives more peace of mind to both employees and managers. So, it is important to establish a Read More
Once you’ve identified high potentials in your company, you want to do what is best to turn them into the best leaders they can be, Read More
An employee enters your office with a problem and in turn you offer a solution.
As an executive coach, leadership development advisor and Vistage chair Read More
As we all know, intelligence is an important factor in success. However, there is more than one type of intelligence, and one being considered more Read More
Fear surrounds the idea of performance feedback: leaders are scared about how the receiver will react and employees are afraid of what their bosses will Read More
Business leaders can have many titles. But excelling at one role is a highly-effective way to bring about better performance in your employees: the role Read More
Good leaders help their employees grow and improve.
An important part of this process is performance feedback, but it’s easy for leaders to make mistakes Read More
Performance feedback is something employees in our country view negatively—even HR staff largely don’t trust the process. Part of the reason why is because most Read More
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