Regional Executive Advisory Board Adds Knoxville Member Laurent

Knoxville, Tenn. – Joseph Laurent, operations manager for three Knoxville area auto dealerships, has been selected to be a member of a senior executive peer advisory board in Knoxville by Vistage Worldwide, Inc. He joins over 300 senior executives, business owners, and CEOs across the state of Tennessee who are Vistage members. With more than 15 years in the car business beginning in high school, Laurent holds a double undergraduate degree in religious studies and business and also an MBA from Gardner-Webb University.

Board Chair Kurt Greene said, “I am thrilled to welcome Joseph to this diverse group of exceptional senior executives. These A-players play pivotal roles in their growing companies, and are growing quickly themselves as leaders. Joseph joins them in enhancing not only their own lives, but also those of their families, employees, and others they touch in their communities.” Greene is Chair of the four Vistage advisory boards in the greater Knoxville area.

Vistage members meet monthly with peers from local non-competing businesses to help one another improve their companies and themselves. Membership is by invitation only and requires a nomination and a selection process. 

About Vistage Worldwide, Inc.
Vistage is the world’s largest CEO coaching and peer advisory organization for small and midsize businesses. For more than 60 years, we’ve been helping CEOs, business owners and key executives solve their greatest challenges through confidential peer advisory groups and one-to-one executive coaching sessions. Today, more than 27,000 members in 26 countries rely on Vistage to help make better decisions for their companies, families, and communities. The results prove it: Vistage CEO members grew their annual revenue on average by 4.6% in 2020, while nonmembers with comparable small and midsize businesses saw revenue decrease by 4.7%, according to a study of Dun & Bradstreet data. Learn more at vistage.com, KtownCEOs.com, or call (865) 407-0703.

About Personal Auto Locator Service (PALS) Knoxville

Now with three dealership locations in the greater Knoxville area, PALS’s goal is to grow its business through focusing on wrapping arms around employees and fostering the type of love that the company would like their employees to lavish on their families and customers. This automotive family made up of North Knoxville Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep-RAM (CDJR), Secret City CDJR, and PALS Knoxville has been serving others well since January 2013.