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Turner College Well Represented among the Columbus Chamber's Leadership Columbus Class of 2026

The Turner College is well represented among the Columbus Chamber of Commerce's Leadership Columbus Class of 2026. Among the class is Will Heard, a CPA and partner at Robinson, Grimes & Company. Heard earned an undergraduate degree from Berry College and an MBA from the Turner College. 
Another Turner College alum among the Class of 2026 is Ralph King, the Business and Community Development Manager at Liberty Utilities. King has held his current position since 2017, prior to which he was a sales representative for Foley Materials. King is a graduate of Hardaway High School in Columbus.
Next is Renee Lambert, an Employee Experience Consultant at Aflac. Lamber earned two degrees from the Turner College - a BBA in management with a concentration is human resources in 2014, and an MS in organizational leadership in 2015. During her graduate studies, Lambert held a graduate assistantship that focused on assisting business students with business courses and career development, overseeing the media marketing for the Turner College's servant leadership journal, Servant Leadership: Theory and Practice, promoting business programs and recruiting students at campus orientations and events, and assisting business professors with research efforts and course review sessions.
Kyndal Nipper joins the Class of 2026 as a Communications Specialist with Synovus. Nipper earned a BBA in marketing from the Turner College in 2014. Prior to joining Synovus, she worked as a Project Manager at TSYS, a Customer Care Specialist at Randstad, and a Marketing Director for Chick-fil-A.

A second two-time Turner College graduate in the Class is Tashee' Singleton, an Accounting Operations Administrator with Columbus Consolidated Government. Singleton earned a BBA in accounting from the Turner College in 2003, and a Turner College MBA in 2008.
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