Chapter PresidentDwight TurnerGRC, privacy, AI governance, and community education.Portfolio LinkedIn Leadership in Atlanta
Leadership is a team sport
The Atlanta chapter is built by volunteers who turn community ideas into useful programs, welcoming spaces, and practical opportunities to learn.
LEARN◆LEAD◆LIFT OTHERS
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Leadership ethos
How power works here
Leadership that makes room for more leaders.
The Atlanta chapter is starting with a small, intentional group of changemakers who lead by serving, share responsibility, and make room for others to grow. In Atlanta, the home of the civil rights movement, we have a powerful example from leadership giants who blazed a path: empowered people, aligned around a clear purpose, can move a city and change hearts. We are building carefully, giving each person meaningful ownership and growing from a strong foundation.
The package
Control-led model
Empire building / Dictatorship
Concentrated power
Recommended
The Atlanta chapter way
Servant leadership / Changemaker
The path we chose
Built for
One person at the top
People who do the work
How power works
Command, control, and a throne
Shared, accountable leadership
What titles mean
Status and a personal empire
A useful piece of the mission
Growth model
Go big, fast, and thin
Intentional, empowered, and small
How members show up
Followers waiting on direction
Changemakers who lift others
What success looks like
The leader looks large
The community gets stronger
For now that means a small founding team, chapter officers, and a handful of director seats. Every chapter fills four officer seats, president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer, and can add directors as it grows. Each role owns a useful piece of the mission. As we grow, we share leadership instead of concentrating it.
02 / Current leadership
Meet the founding team.
This chapter is just getting started, and we need more leaders. Join us as a volunteer leader today to help grow the community, organize programming, and support the chapter's development. This working crew grows stronger as more members step in to serve, share responsibility, and create room for others to contribute.
Chapter PresidentDwight TurnerGRC, privacy, AI governance, and community education.Portfolio LinkedIn 
Chapter Vice PresidentPrinceton BakerSecurity engineering, technical program management, and audit-ready program delivery.Portfolio LinkedIn 
Director of MembershipDara ThomasHuman-centered GRC and a welcoming path into Atlanta's chapter community.Portfolio LinkedIn 
Director of EventsTommy King-MarshallCloud security, IAM, security automation, and practitioner-focused chapter events.LinkedIn 03 / Open ways to lead
Own a useful piece of the mission.
We don't need more chiefs. We need people willing to hold a seat so the work has a home, then make everyone else's path lighter.
Secretary
Maintain chapter records, meeting notes, and the follow-through that keeps members informed.
Treasurer
Support responsible budgeting, clear financial records, and accessible chapter activities.
Director of Practitioner Development
Shape practical learning, mentorship, labs, and opportunities that help members grow their craft.
Director of Marketing
Tell the chapter story, and build the sponsor and community connections that create useful access, resources, and a richer member experience.
The wider GRC engineering community
More engineers. More stories. More ways to connect.
Meet more practitioners building the wider GRC engineering community, then come back and help Atlanta stay a place worth joining.