Conference Award Recipients

Clifton Taulbert

President, Freemount Corporation, author of Eight Habits of the Heart

About Clifton Taulbert:
Clifton L. Taulbert is the President and CEO of the Freemount Consulting Company and has consulted internationally for businesses, international schools and for community colleges throughout the United States.

Taulbert a banker by profession saw his life shift to owning his own business with the publication and success of his first book, Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored which became a major motion picture. Taulbert’s capture of the look and feel of community was received internationally.

Taulbert now has fourteen books to his credit and is recognized internationally as an entrepreneur—from being on the team that introduced STAIRMASTER EXERCISE SYSTEM to the world and most recently as the President and CEO of AFRICAN BEAN COMPANY—the home of ROOTS JAVA COFFEE. Taulbert’s life is reflective of the necessity to embrace STRATEGIC PREPAREDNESS.

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Jim Simpson

Jim has over 30 years experience in industry and higher education. Jim is currently the Executive Director at College of Central Florida. In this role he provides leadership to assist seven Florida colleges serving 23 Florida counties to increase the number of graduates in high demand areas. This is role that is not new to Jim, since May 1996, has has assisted over 58 colleges to implement strategies to improve their graduation rates.

Jim’s role as an innovator and leader in higher education has been recognized by a number of organizations including the US Department of Labor, the League for Innovation in Community Colleges and the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development. In 2009, in recognition of his achievements and life-long commitment to higher education in the United States, the Chair Academy recognized Jim with the Paul A. Elsner International Leadership Award. The Elsner award is given annually to two outstanding higher education administrators in the world.

When you ask Jim what his greatest accomplishments have been he will tell you four things. Convincing his wife Linda to marry him, having a loving family, the friends he has made over the years, and the difference that education has made in his life and the lives of the over 48,000 students who have graduated from college programs that he has been responsible for leading.

Jim earned his Bachelor of Applied Science and Masters in Business Administration from Stephen F. Austin State University and currently resides in Alvin, Texas.

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