Leadership Greater Augusta
Mentors
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Rod is Director of Hospitality Services at AugustaMedicalCenter,
overseeing the Departments of Nutrition, Environmental Services, Laundry, Food Services, Catering & The Atrium Fair. He also serves as AMC’s Hazardous Materials Officer.
A graduate of the University of Florida in English Literature, Rod began consulting professionally in 1980. During his career he has designed, opened & sold four restaurants and a backhoe business. He spent six years in sports club management directing a country club, racquetball & fitness club and bowling center. He was a Corporate Instructor with Morrison’s Incorporated and Food Management Group, recruiting & mentoring new managers and developing employee training & retention programs for over a decade. Before joining AMC as a Director, he was Regional Director for Food Management Group, overseeing nine facilities in four states.
Rod’s professional associations include membership in the National Speakers Association, the Food & Nutrition Advisory Committee for MedAssets Business Solutions, the Healthcare Foodservice Managers Association of America, the Advisory Board for Restaurant & Institutions magazine and Who’s Who in Healthcare Nutrition Management.
Locally, Rod volunteers his business acumen with SCORE, Counselors to America’s Small Business and sits on the Board of Directors for VAE, the Valley Alliance for Education. He works closely with The Bradford Company and the View program in RockbridgeCounty. Through Bradford he provides motivational & skills training to participants in Rockbridge’s local Food Stamp & Taniff programs, teaching the currently unemployed how to find and keep a good job.
As an Eagle Scout and Friend of Scouting, Rod is a fundraiser for the Stonewall Jackson Area Council of The Boy Scouts of America. Through his consulting firm, The Team Builder’s Workshop™, Rod provides business & industry training in employee retention through team building, employee & management training and generational conflict management, all for a tax deductible donation to the Boy Scouts.
Personally, Rod is an Independent Wellness Consultant with Nikken, the world’s largest provider of wellness products. He speaks regularly at Nikken events and has two training CDs that have stayed on the top 10 best sellers list since released in March 2007. His articles on health & wellness, team building and management have been published nationally and he blogs regularly on the subjects of his choice.
He is a member of CrossroadsBaptistChurch and lives with his wife Peggy and their hound Molly in Waynesboro. Between them (Peggy and Rod, that is) they have three children and four grandchildren. To find out more about Rod, visit his web site @ www.RodHooper.com
Amy Laser Kiger serves as the Director of Development for Blue
RidgeCommunity College and has held this position since July 1, 1998. Prior to fundraising for the BRCC Educational Foundation, Amy was the Assistant Director of Major Gifts at JamesMadisonUniversity and was the Director of
Development for WVPT Public Television before that.
Amy is a member of the Shenandoah Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and the Shenandoah Valley Kiwanis Club, and is active with various efforts at her church, Christ Evangelical Lutheran in Staunton. She is a distinguished past president of the Shenandoah Valley Kiwanis Club, and previously served on the boards of the Blue Ridge Leave A LegacyTM effort, Harrisonburg / Rockingham American Heart Association, and New Directions Center, Inc.
Amy completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication Arts with a minor in French at JamesMadisonUniversity in 1987 and followed that with a Master’s degree in Public Administration at JMU in 1998. She has held the Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) designation since December of 1999.
A resident of Staunton, Amy lives with her husband John and their five-year-old son Jackson.
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