Meet Our Team
Our team
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Rachel Gammon
With over 25 years of service to the Northside Neighborhood House, Rachel shifted careers in 2024 to be able to focus more on her family. During her time at the NNH, she led the Children’s Program and served as the CEO for 18 years. Throughout her years of leadership, Rachel enjoyed mentoring several leaders who were new to CEO/Executive Director positions. She also served in various volunteer roles supporting her family’s church and children’s schools and sports endeavors.
Her shift in career led her to do consulting work. Rachel stepped into the role of Executive Director of the Brock Center in January 2026 where she’s excited to build and strengthen the Center’s work focused on empowering leaders to focus on relationships building stronger businesses and community. Rachel also currently supports the Philanthropy team at the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga doing research.
Rachel Gammon is a follower of Christ, wife, mother and servant leader. She and husband Seth have two teenage daughters, Emma Grace and Laura Beth. Their family now resides in Spencer, TN.
FOUNDER
Rodger Piersant
Rodger Piersant is a retired businessman, currently serving as co-founder and Chairperson of the Brock Center nonprofit organization. Prior to this, he served twenty-one years as president and then chairman and partner of Displaycraft, Inc., a national store and industry display, fixture, and furniture manufacturer located in Dalton, Georgia. DCI manufactures interior furnishings and free-standing displays for such customers as AT&T Cricket, Sprint Boost, Shaw, Mohawk, and fifty other national companies. Previously, Rodger served 15 years as president and CEO of National Center for Youth Issues (NCYI), serving over 14,000 schools and school systems. And, before serving with NCYI, he served as founder, president and 10 year owner of ServiceMaster Building Maintenance Contracts, Inc., a multi-city commercial cleaning firm. He began his career in hospital administration directly out of college.
Rodger is a graduate of Covenant College and holds two graduate degrees from Luther Rice Seminary. He is a U.S. Navy Seabee Veteran, and has had roles with multiple Chattanooga boards including Southern Champion Tray, First Things First, the Chattanooga Christian School Board, the Maclellan Foundation CECT, and the Generosity Trust foundations in Chattanooga. He also currently performs various consulting duties for the Maclellan Foundation. Rodger and Suzanne are founding members and he, an elder, at Northshore Fellowship church in downtown Chattanooga. They have been married 51 years, are the parents of their married sons, Ryan and Timothy, and the grandparents of four wonderful granddaughters.
FACILITATOR
Scott Quatro, PHD, MBA
Scott A. Quatro is a behavioral scientist and strategist, and serves as Professor of Management and Chair of the Business Department at Covenant College (a top tier National Liberal Arts College), where he teaches courses in Management, Organizational Behavior, Strategic Management, Human Resource Management, and Business Ethics.
Dr. Quatro previously served as an Organizational Development Consultant with one of the largest management consultancies in the world, and as a Corporate Human Resource Manager for a Fortune 500 retail company. Since entering academe in 1999 Dr. Quatro’s consulting and research work have focused on strategic human resource management, organizational change and transformation, holistic leadership development, corporate/enterprise strategy, and organizational design. His independent consulting clients have included both Fortune 500 firms and small to mid-sized organizations, including Chattem/Sanofi, Kenco, Diversified Industrial Rigging, Kemper, G&L Holdings, Grain Craft, 1910 Legacy Enterprises, Adolfson and Peterson Construction, Southern Champion Tray, The Generosity Trust, Barnhart Energy Company, Mission Increase, Card-Monroe Corporation, SmartBank, Signal Energy, Johnson & Johnson, Pendleton Square Trust, M&M Industries, and the Christian Business Faculty Association. He has authored or co-authored over 20 journal articles, chapters, papers, and books, including Leadership: Succeeding in the Private, Public, and Not-for-Profit Sectors, which was selected as a Best Academic Book by the American Library Association, and The Manager as Change Agent, a perennial best-selling book in the Change Management/Change Leadership category. His most recent books are Executive Ethics: Ethical Dilemmas and Challenges for the C-Suite, 2nd Edition and The Praeger Handbook of Human Resource Management. His most recent journal article is The Common Grace Agency of Capitalistic Corporate Strategy in God’s World, published in Unio Cum Christo: The International Journal of Reformed Theology and Life. Dr. Quatro serves on the Peer Review Boards for the Journal of Business Ethics, and the Journal of Biblical Integration in Business. Dr. Quatro served as the Chair of the Christian Business Faculty Association from 2017 to 2019. He received a BA in English from Pepperdine University, an MBA from the College of William and Mary, and holds a PhD in Human Resource Development from Iowa State University.
Dr. Quatro lives in the historic Southside community of Chattanooga, Tennessee with his wife Jamie, and is a competitive hockey player and a whiskey/bourbon aficionado.
FACILITATOR
Kaysie Strickland
Kaysie Strickland is a Chattanooga native and is president of the Listening House Co., a conglomerate of her greatest passions: design, soul care, art, and creative retreats. She is the founder and former CEO of Homes & Havens and has worked within the nonprofit sector for almost two decades before launching Listening House Co.
She brings a strong entrepreneurial approach and passion for healthy leadership culture into her role at the Brock Academy. She has two young sons, Charlie and Henry.
She is currently finishing her MA from Richmont Graduate University and holds two certificates in Narrative Focused Trauma Care from Seattle School of Theology and Psychology.