Partner Responsibilities: Community Development Practice
Relevant Experience
Joe is Founder and Chairman of the Hudson Strategic Group Inc. (HsG), a company that grew out of Joe’s efforts as a trainer for Corporate Supplier Diversity Program Development in 1991. He had successfully trained more than 3,000 persons in Supplier Diversity while serving as the executive director of the Georgia Minority Supplier Development Council in Atlanta. Joe is a recognized expert on Small business and community development and has testified before the US House Small Business Sub-Committee. He has been a featured columnists for two newspapers—The Atlanta Tribune and Minority Business News USA. Joe is widely recognized for his facilitation efforts around Strategic Planning and Process Implementation and has successfully lead many strategic planning and/implementation assignments. He is a Certified Administrative Manager. His focus is Non-profit Board Governance, Small Business Development, and Community Development.
Representative Clients Served
Alabama Power Company
Deloitte
Citizens Trust Bank
Bank of America
The Ethyl Corporation
National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC)
Try Us Resources
Georgia Power Company
Nat’l Black Child Development Institute
Atlanta Public Schools
HUD
GSA
Education/Certifications
Howard University
American University
Certified Administrative Manager (CAM)
Advance Minority Business Executive Program—Dartmouth University
Smaller Company Executive Development—Stanford University
International Business Executive—London Business School, London England
Minority-Owned Business Executive
Darden School, University of VA
Diversity Leadership Institute
Listed:
Who’s Who in Black America
Who’s Who in Finance
Who’s Who in Black Atlanta (3 editions)
Atlanta Success Guide
Who’s Who in the South
Outstanding Young Men of America
January 27, 1977 Declared Joseph R. Hudson Day by Fulton County Commission
January 27, 1977 Declared Joseph R. Hudson Day by Mayor and City of Atlanta, GA
Honored/Citied:
In Book “Success Runs in Our Race”
George Frazier
Jefferson Cup-Darden School University of VA
Atlanta Business league—Leadership Award
Professional and Community Activities
Fellow President’s Commission on Executive Exchange
Atlanta Downtown Development Authority—Former Chairman
Executive Committee the National Minority Supplier Development Council—Former Chairman, Executive Directors
Atlanta Black United Fund—Former Chairman
Fulton County Department of Family and Children Services—Former Chairman
Region IV Small Business Administration—Advisory Committee
Butler Street YMCA—Former Member, Board of Directors
Vice Chair Public Policy Committee Atlanta Business League
Society for International Business Fellows
Central United Methodist Church—Recent Chairman, Administrative Board
Henry Whitlow
President and CEO
Partner Responsibilities: Colleges and Schools (K-16)
Relevant Experience
Henry is a senior examiner for the State of Georgia’s Oglethorpe Quality Award. Additionally, he is trained as a Baldrige examiner and is also trained in a number of quality-related topics, including ISO 9000, benchmarking, facilitation, quality planning, and statistical process control techniques. Henry has served as an adjunct instructor for Southern Tech University, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Clark-Atlanta University Business School. He is the 1994 winner of the Groupware Service Provider Award for application of Groupware technology, awarded by Computer World at the Groupware conference held annually in San Jose, California. A business process analyst with extensive financial management and financial systems experience, Henry has served as a member of the IBM Corporate Quality Staff where he was responsible for the establishment and management of the worldwide benchmarking database, and he has conducted a number of benchmarking projects in private and public settings. He recently facilitated the HsG engagement with USDA and is currently directing the Coca-Cola project.
Representative Clients Served
Dekalb County School System
OPX
Deloitte
HUD
Hartsfield/Jackson International Airport
Georgia Power Company
Atlanta Public Schools
City of Atlanta
U.S. Department of Education
Education/Certifications
Harvard Business School, MBA
North Carolina Central University, BS
Oglethorpe Quality Award Examiner
Groupware Systems Facilitator
Shared Value Operating Systems—Lebow Systems
E-commerce Course Development
Professional and Community Activities
Harvard University Black MBA Association
American Society for Quality
Kirk Patterson
Executive Vice President and COO
Partner Responsibilities:Planning and Discovery
Relevant Experience
Before joining HsG, Kirk perfected his skills in quantitative analysis as an internal and external business consultant for Dean Witter, Pepsi, and IBM. He has extensive experience in growing revenue for third-party vendors, dealers, corporate investors, and business partners. For the past eight years he has specialized in conducting performance analyses for entrepreneurial divisions, business units, and companies. Kirk is a recognized expert in the development and creation of organizational balanced scorecards and their accompanying strategic maps. He has led HsG engagements for Supplier Diversity Strategic Planning and Organizational Development.
Representative Clients Served
Alabama Power Company
Dekalb County
United Parcel Services
Dekalb County School System
Hughes Spaulding Children’s Hospital
National Black Child Development Institute—Washington DC
