Our Team
By: BusinessClassInc.com
Jan Bolick is the owner of Business Class.
She believes that work should be enjoyable – even fun – especially since most of us spend more time at work than anywhere else.
It drives her mad thinking about all the people who don’t enjoy their work – maybe even hate it.
Knowing from personal experience, backed by research, that the most frequent reason people dislike their work is because of their leader or manager – Jan chose to specialize in working with leaders to develop a take-charge, make-it-happen, inspiration style of leadership.
The result is improved morale and productivity. Team members are more engaged. And overall performance is higher. It’s a win-win-win-win for everyone.
Michele Brant is a Business Class Partner.
She has twenty years of corporate and coaching experience. Her specialties include: Career Transition, Change Management and Wellness.
Michele is a graduate of the Georgia Tech College of Management and Champion Education Coaching Academy; and is currently a student at Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching.
She has lived in many different states and countries in her life which she found very exciting. She says it gave her the ability to be flexible and a quick learner. She now lives in Tega Cay, South Carolina (a suburb of Charlotte, NC).
Michele and Jan met and found much common ground through their affiliation with Roving Coach International.
Contact Information: Michele@BusinessClassInc.com
Brad Johnson is a native of North Carolina.
He is a Senior, at UNC-Chapel Hill, majoring in Business Administration and is a member of Zeta Psi Fraternity.
The summer after his freshman year (2009), he worked as a Summer Intern for Business Class and has continued to help out on a freelance basis – doing research, writing and assisting with website development.
His interests include the outdoors and athletics of all types. And we think it’s cool that he earned the prestigious Eagle Scout in the spring of 2008.
Since May of 2011, he has worked as a Marketing Intern for Dimension Data which is based in Australia.
Contact Information: brad@businessclassinc.com
A special thanks to Brad for converting our favorite quotes, tips and reminders into a format that’s easy to access and download. Check these out in our Motivational Quotes section. We hope you will use them often as tools for teaching, learning, remembering and reinforcing these great words of wisdom.
Jordan Van Gorder is a native of North Carolina.
He was a Summer Intern at Business Class in 2009 and continued on a freelance basis as his schedule allowed during his sophomore year.
In the summer of 2010, he worked for State Farm in Greensboro and then spent eight weeks in Europe, six of these studying in Maastricht, The Netherlands. In the summer of 2011, he was a Strategy & Change Intern at Booz Allen Hamilton in McLean, Virginia.
He is now a Senior at UNC – Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler School of Business and a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity, so he is very busy. But we hope you will see the results of some of his freelance work here during the next year.
Contact Information: jordan@businessclassinc.com
A special thanks to Jordan for setting up a system to convert our book author interviews from the Business Class On The Radio Series into downloadable files for our subscribers. If you’d like access to these and other helpful tools for leaders in business, subscribe here.
Josie Johnson is a native of North Carolina. She graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2008, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English. While a student there, Josie:
- volunteered through APPLES Service Learning program.
- visited New Orleans, gutted Katrina-ravaged houses, and studied civil rights on an Alternative Spring Break trip.
- held leadership chair position in Alpha Delta Pi sorority.
- led Carolina Music Outreach as Vice-President and President.
- worked as an Administrative Assistant with Business Class, Inc. 2006-2008.
During her first two years out of school, she taught 10th grade English through the DC Teaching Fellows Program in Washington, DC; earned a Master of Arts in Teaching at American University (completed Summer 2010); and became certified to teach Advanced Placement classes.
This year she is teaching AP English Language and 11th grade American Literature.
Somehow during all of that, she has managed to find some time to work with Business Class on a freelance basis – doing research, writing and assisting with website development. And we appreciate that!
Her hobbies include reading, writing, running, ballet and cooking.
Contact Information: josie@businessclassinc.com
Sue Pace is a native of North Carolina.
She graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1982, with a Bachelor of Art Degree in Studio Art.
She worked for The Village Companies 1983-1998: as a Graphic Artist for The Village Advocate (1983-1998); Manager of Creative Department for The Village Advocate (1985-1992). She was named a vice president of the Village Companies in1988.
Since 1998, she has worked as a freelance Graphic Designer, developing a wide range of marketing materials for a variety of businesses including:
- Tar Heel Sports Network
- Performance Bicycles
- CREE
- The Big Putt
- Lucent Technologies
- All Kinds of Minds
- Capital Opera
- Atlantic Spas and Billiards
- Wake Medical Center
- plus Business Class, where she helps with the design and content of various on and offline materials
Sue is also very community minded – having served in a volunteer capacity with The Animal Protection Society of Durham, Ronald McDonald House, PTA president, American Red Cross, Lineberger Cancer Center and the American Cancer Society.
Her hobbies include running, gardening and home renovation.
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