Childress Business Consulting (CBC)

About Childress Business Consulting

JOHN T. CHILDRESS is the CEO and President of Childress Business Consulting. John is an experienced business leader who has excelled at both starting businesses and working within existing businesses to help them grow. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Rutgers University School of Business. John is certified as a trainer/facilitator in the Predictive Index, Balanced Scorecard, and FastTrac tools and programs.

John began his career at age 20 by joining the Dominos Pizza management training program. After being promoted to General Manager, he built up his store sales to rank among the highest in per capita sales. As a result of this achievement, he soon built and owned his own store and in the process became one of the first African American Franchisees in the 4,000 store chain. His store consistently ranked at the top of sales in his region in Long Island.

In late 2005 John was selected to serve as Executive Director of the African American Chamber of Commerce in Philadelphia. He helped increase membership by creating a new strategic vision for the Chamber. But he is most proud of starting an entrepreneur training program there to assist people starting their own business. John also is an elected member of the East Greenwich School Board and serves on many city and regional committees.

In 2002, John established his own business management consulting firm, Childress Business Consulting (www.ChildressBiz.com), which has helped many small businesses and non-profits increase their revenue and manage their business. Over the years CBC has connected small businesses with over $3 million in new revenue and contracts.

In 2009, John was chosen by New York City Business Solutions to facilitate entrepreneurship to business executives. This program is conducted at the State University of New York (SUNY) Global Center. John has helped trained over 400 entrepreneurs to date. Recently, John was also chosen by Entrepreneur Works of Philadelphia to run a similar program in Philadelphia.
  

 
 
DEIRDRE M. CHILDRESS-HOPKINS is the Strategic Communications Manager for the Pennsylvania Convention Center. She is a former features, city desk, sports and suburban editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, where she supervised and edited award-winning reporters and freelancers. She is the immediate past Vice President-Print of the National Association of Black Journalists and its former National Secretary. In recent years, she has traveled throughout the U.S. and also Toronto, Canada, Kingston, Jamaica, and Dakar, Senegal, organizing and attending meetings, conferences, and conventions.

Born in Los Angeles, Deirdre previously worked at The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Daily News, United Press International and the Syracuse Post-Standard. She earned a bachelor's degree in English and Fine Arts from Colgate University, where she received a Presidents Award as an outstanding graduate. She attended private and parochial schools in Burlington County, N.J.. During her career, Deirdre also has studied at The Poynter Institute, the University of California at Los Angeles and London University.

She has edited an e-Journal, published quarterly online and currently has a blog, Seeing the World in 3Dei!, where she combines her love of travel, film and other general interests. Deirdre has moderated sessions of BlogTalkRadio; she has made appearances on Philadelphia radio and television stations, FOX and NBC, and she was a regular contributor to NPRs News and Notes.
 
PAUL GOLDSBOROUGH is the IT Services Manager.  Paul has 23-year seasoned IT Professional with varied experience in Project & Operations Management, Consulting and Technical Sales Leading & managing business process design and improvement, product lifecycle development, implementations, transition management, technical sales on a local, national and global basis Highly productive team leader; equally effective working independently in a consultant role Detailed-oriented, strength in problem solving Strong interpersonal & organization skills Committed to excellent customer service.
 
ADA C. URIBE, MBA, PMP Principal Consultant, Ada C. Uribe, MBA, PMP is an accomplished leader with more than 13 years' experience in Project Management, Business Analysis and Process Improvement in both government and corporate sectors. Ms. Uribe possesses a keen ability to envision global project perspectives while executing business details within critical deadlines. Highly skilled at managing multi-faceted projects through competing cross-functional teams with the ability to communicate clear mission and key objectives.