Chad Jaynes named dean of business and industry at Chattanooga State and more Chattanooga-area career moves

Jaynes named dean of business and industry at Chattanooga State

Chad Jaynes has been appointed as the dean of the Business and Industry Division at Chattanooga State Community College, according to a news release.

Jaynes first joined the Chattanooga State family in 2016 as manager of solutions development in the Economic and Workforce Development Division. He was appointed as interim dean of the business division in April 2021, just prior to his recent appointment as permanent dean.

As interim dean, Jaynes worked with faculty and staff to increase enrollment for students within existing and new programs or certificates. Part of this work included leading a correctional education project for incarcerated individuals before they returned to the workforce.

In his role as dean, Jaynes will supervise and direct support services to personnel and the programs within the business and industry division. He will shape academic strategy to promote and assist in the development of new courses and programs based on local and regional needs while adhering to the college’s strategic plan, initiate collaborative programs and articulation agreements with baccalaureate institutions, and lead divisional initiatives to expand early postsecondary opportunities for high school students.

Croft and Fung join Austin Hatcher Foundation

The Austin Hatcher Foundation recently added Morgan Croft and Anna Fung as members to their growing team and promoted Tammy Gipson to director of clinical services and operations.

Morgan Croft has joined the foundation staff as the new graphic designer and social media coordinator. In this role, Croft will help promote the Austin Hatcher foundation’s activities and messages across all social media platforms, according to a news release. Croft graduated from Georgia Southern University with a bachelor of fine arts in graphic design.

Anna Fung joins the foundation staff as a new occupational therapist where she helps the foundation’s patients and families live life to the fullest through adaptations, muscle strengthening, and sensory and compensatory strategies intervention.

Fung graduated from the University of Kansas with her bachelor’s degree in occupational science, and then pursued her doctorate and master’s degrees in occupational therapy at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Fung has spent the past five years practicing occupational therapy in a school-based setting, primarily working with children ages three to five.

With the addition of Fung to the staff, the foundation can shift some responsibility from current occupational therapist Tammy Gipson and promote her to the director of clinical services and operations. Gipson has practiced occupational therapy with the Austin Hatcher Foundation for the past three years and has served as the Director of Clinical Services for the past nine months. Now Gipson will expand her role from overseeing everything on the foundation’s clinical side to also overseeing the operational side as well.

The Austin Hatcher Foundation’s vision is for all childhood cancer patients, survivors, and the entire family to reach their full human potential through education, balance, and health and well-being.

BlueCross names Scoggins as director of ethics, compliance

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has promoted Kelly Scoggins to director of ethics and compliance.

In her new role, Scoggins will oversee and manage all phases of the BlueCross corporate compliance program, including the enterprise records and information management program and the company’s federal regulatory compliance team.

“Kelly has provided invaluable expertise and leadership to our corporate compliance team for years,” said Julie Boerger, BlueCross vice president and chief compliance officer in a news release. “Her experience and commitment to ethical values makes her a great fit for the role, and I’m very pleased to see her taking on this position within the organization.”

A 30-year BlueCross employee, Scoggins developed extensive knowledge in audit and government benefits administration across a number of positions. Before assuming her current duties, she served for 11 years as ethics and compliance manager in the company’s corporate compliance division.

Scoggins earned a degree in accounting as well as an Executive Leadership certification from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

McHenry joins Goodwill Industries as chief mission integration officer

Emily McHenry has joined Goodwill Industries of the Greater Chattanooga Area as chief mission integration officer, where she will lead the workforce development and community services department. Goodwill’s mission is to change lives through the power of work, and one of McHenry’s first charges is to lead an in-depth Community Needs Assessment to determine how Goodwill can make a difference where the need is greatest, according to a news release.

Her responsibilities include leadership, strategic direction, and oversight for mission delivery, and the advancement of all agency training and mission services programs.

McHenry was previously the director of career and talent development at the Goodwill of Central and Coastal Virginia in Richmond, Virginia.

Chamber names Moore to head leadership development programs

Toya Moore has been named incoming director of leadership development for the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce.

In her new role, Moore will direct the administration of the Chattanooga Chamber Foundation’s suite of programs: Leadership Chattanooga, Young Professionals of Chattanooga, Protégé Chattanooga, the Leadership Chattanooga Alumni Association, and ChattaNewbies. Moore’s work will focus on professional development and civic engagement among early career, mid-career, and established professionals. Leadership Chattanooga alone has graduated almost 1,900 individuals since its 1984 inception.

Moore comes to the Chattanooga Chamber from LBMC where she served as talent development advisor, directing their two flagship programs for leadership development, as well as an executive-coaching program. LBMC is one of the largest professional-services firms in the Southeastern U.S. Moore holds extended certification in DiSC, a widely renowned personality and behavioral assessment tool used to improve teamwork, communication, and productivity.

Originally from Cleveland, Tenn., Moore served as director of The Acorn School at Vanderbilt University and as an Instructional Specialist for the District of Columbia Public Schools. She has also worked with the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, Chattanooga State Community College, Signal Centers, Inc., and the United Way of Greater Chattanooga.

“Serving as Leadership Development Director, Toya Moore will have a unique opportunity to oversee programs that help to grow and advance the leadership acumen of talent throughout the greater Chattanooga community,” Sybil Topel, vice president of marketing and engagement said in a news release. “As a proven leader who has worked in the private sector and for esteemed institutions of higher education, Toya brings fresh insight and perspectives to our team as well as deep experience in training today’s and tomorrow’s leaders.”

Moore earned her M.Ed. in Educational Leadership as well as a B.S. in Applied Human Science from East Tennessee State University. In 2020 she was honored with the Vanderbilt Division of Administration Service Champion Award.

– Compiled by Brandi Dixon

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