PresidentDwight TurnerGRC, privacy, AI governance, and community education.PortfolioLinkedInLeadership in Atlanta
Leadership is a team sport
Leadership here is about service, shared ownership, and making room for others to grow. Meet the volunteers helping build useful programs, welcoming spaces, and practical opportunities for Atlanta's GRC community.
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
The charter starts each chapter with a President and Vice President. The Secretary supports the founding team; Treasurer and optional director roles can be added as the chapter 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.
PresidentDwight TurnerGRC, privacy, AI governance, and community education.PortfolioLinkedIn
Vice PresidentPrinceton BakerSecurity engineering, technical program management, and audit-ready program delivery.PortfolioLinkedIn
Director of MembershipDara ThomasHuman-centered GRC and a welcoming path into Atlanta's chapter community.PortfolioLinkedIn
Director of EventsTommy King-MarshallCloud security, IAM, security automation, and practitioner-focused chapter events.LinkedIn03 / 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.
Treasurer
Track the chapter budget, receipts, reimbursement requests, and sponsor routing without holding or spending chapter funds directly.
Director of Practitioner Development
Shape practical learning, mentorship, labs, and opportunities that help members grow their craft.
Director of Marketing
Own the chapter voice across announcements, event promotion, recaps, and other approved communications channels.
04 · The wider club
Atlanta is local. The movement is bigger.
The Atlanta Chapter is part of a growing GRC Engineering community. These leaders help shape the broader club, connect chapters, and push the discipline forward.
Global Chapter President
Abdie Mohamed
Abdie helps lead the growing network of GRC Engineering Club chapters, connecting local leaders and helping communities turn the principles of GRC Engineering into programs, events, and opportunities to build together.
Founder · GRC Engineering Club
AJ Yawn
AJ founded the GRC Engineering Club to help practitioners rethink how governance, risk, and compliance work gets done. His work challenges the community to move beyond checkbox compliance and build more technical, automated, and evidence-driven approaches to assurance.
Why join the wider club
More ways to learn, build, and grow.
- 01Learn
Explore member playbooks, guides, podcasts, and the full content archive.
- 02Build
Practice through hands-on labs, live builder sessions, and capstone-based credentials.
- 03Grow
Get live Q&A support, mock interviews, and resume and LinkedIn reviews.
- 04Connect
Meet practitioners through the member community and a growing chapter network.
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.