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Karan Ferrell-Rhodes has two passions: People and business.
She’s always had a curiosity about what makes people tick, and had a knack for business, passed down from her father, who ran several small businesses throughout his life.
Perhaps it’s no wonder, then, that in March 2013, she founded Shockingly Different Leadership, an Atlanta-based consultancy that specializes in HR, talent development, and organizational effectiveness. Ferrell-Rhodes serves as the firm’s CHRO and leads a team of roughly 30 employees and 350 consultants, who work with roughly 15 to 20 US- and globally-based clients at a time.
But running her own consultancy wasn’t always Ferrell-Rhodes’ endgame.