Edgar J. Alverson III

Leads engagement and accountability for a disruptive world-class team coaching and development firm specializing in helping owners and leadership teams of small-to-medium-sized businesses ($10 - $200M) break through to unreasonable growth.

• Maximizes the client value of each coaching engagement - demanding accountability, deepening impact and solidifying client relationships.
• Built and currently executing on a long-term sustainable growth strategy, focusing on clients and future-clients with the highest possible customer lifetime value.

Executive Networks provides the most valuable and elite membership-based peer-learning services for the world's most senior HR executives.

• Built and executed the new "Crisis Calls" offering that enabled this 25 year-old events-based business to achieve its best ever financial results and renewal rates in both 2020 & 2021years in which in-person events were not feasible.
• Led the company's largest and most profitable global peer network for Global Heads of Talent, as well as key networks for CHROs and Sr. HR Business Partners a combined P&L greater than $2M, accounting for more than 40% of the company's total revenue wholly responsible for service, renewal, retention and expansion of dozens of key accounts across six continents.
• Generated $300k in new bottom line revenue within 30 days of personally launching the Back2Better Research Initiative, serving as project manager, lead researcher and lead author of three 40+ page white papers.
• Planned and fully facilitated multiple two-day in-person network meetings in Europe and North America; dozens of network calls, hundreds of one-on-one member calls and other high-touch executive services.

Harvard Group International is a retained executive search firm with offices in Atlanta and Phoenix with a global client base.

• Founded and led Harvard Group’s Board Practice, placing an accomplished woman on a multi-billion dollar NYSE-traded global manufacturing company’s board of directors
• Sold and successfully fulfilled more than a dozen search engagements, working with clients in Private Equity, B2B Software, Financial Services, Retail, and Manufacturing in both the U.S and Europe.

Global Executive Group (GXG) is a high-touch c-suite consultancy working one-on-one with demanding Fortune 500 executives. Helped grow the firm from a home-office startup into a $6+ million business with more than 55 c-suite clients.

• As employee #4—a critical do-everything leader in the firm—helped the CEO/owner achieve a successful exit of his controlling stake in late 2016.
• Envisioned, led and held P&L responsibility for GXG’s “Executives in Transition” program, placing more than a dozen clients into leadership and public company board positions.
• Co-created GXG’s proprietary networking model for executive growth and development—the core driver of the business’s six-fold growth in revenue.
• Planned and executed custom in-person innovation experiences for individual clients— accompanying senior executives to global innovation hot spots and facilitating events.
• Built the company’s branding, marketing and editorial foundation from the ground up, wholly responsible for writing and designing all of GXG’s marketing and editorial content.

World 50 is the premier c-suite executive networking company operating membership-based peer forums serving over 800 top executives from multi-billion-dollar global organizations.

• As Associate Director for World 50’s network for global CEOs, innovated the core service model resulting in a 40% reduction in churn within 6 months.
• Co-planned and facilitated twice annual high-touch gatherings of 20+ global CEOs.
• Led the transformation of the company's in-house publishing division, pivoting to an original content strategy with multiple new service offerings that boosted client accountability and retention.

Led a team of seven reporters, photographers and graphic artists in the publication of eight newspapers weekly, with a combined circulation of 28,000.

• Promoted to lead all editorial operations within 18 months of starting as a part-time sports reporter.
• Authored over 2,000 news articles, editorials and features.
• Earned multiple Georgia Press Association awards, including one for a groundbreaking investigative reporting project on judicial corruption and impropriety that led to the resignation of two elected judges serving the Griffin Judicial Circuit.

As the Anti-Submarine Warfare Officer aboard the USS Reuben James (FFG-57), led a team of 17 sailors that earned the Pearl Harbor Bloodhound Award in 2006, given annually to the waterfront's best submarine-hunting unit

• Served as the command's daily intel briefing officer during a 9-month anti-piracy deployment to the Persian Gulf and the Somali coast.
• Integral part of the crew that won the Battle E awarded annually to Pearl Harbor's top performing ship in each class.