Accelerator DEI Certification - Cohort 3, Fall 22

Valentina Baio








Jenna Jontz




Kenny Smith
Kenny Smith is a Solutions Consultant for the University of Tennessee’s Center for Industrial Services, an agency within the Institute for Public Service which he joined in 2015. Prior to joining UT, he had more than 25 years of experience in manufacturing and has taught or applied Lean Manufacturing, Total Productive Maintenance, Six Sigma and problem solving skills in 14 different countries for NN, Inc.
He earned a bachelor’s degree from East Tennessee State University studying Industrial Engineering Technology and is a Six Sigma Black Belt.
Kenny, his wife Teresa, and daughter Madison run a family farm in Elizabethton, TN where they raise beef cattle.

Patty Thompson

LeAnne Williamson
Certified Business & Life Coach Strategists; Executive & Personal Coach
-Results Based Trainer & Facilitator; Professional Speaker; Author
-Professional Speaker, trainer, facilitator,and author. Certified business & personal life coach / strategists. I work with customers/clients to provide the services that match their specific needs in business and in their personal lives. Results; My desire is to help everyone achieve the results they are looking for in business and in life. Service to others is the ultimate success; your success is our success. How may we be of service in assisting you in tracing your GOALS.
