May 23 2014 at 06:44AM
Anthony Reed, CPA, PMP
Mr. Reed is a business professional with twenty years in management and executive positions for various Fortune 500 companies and large consulting firms. The responsibilities included managing multi-million dollar departmental budgets and staffing blends of international, multi-generational, multi-cultural employees and consultants.
He’s been interviewed on radio and webcast programs and featured in the business, travel, and sports sections of major newspapers and publications across the country. This includes the Dal-las Morning News, Runner’s World, Southern Living, Ebony, and the Journal of Accountancy. He holds two graduate degrees and two undergraduate degrees. He’s also taught collegiate business management courses. He’s served on the Board of Directors for the Oracle Applica-tions Users Group (OAUG), Ft. Worth’s Jubilee Theatre, the Dallas White Rock Marathon, and various local and international not-for-profit organizations.
He has spoken at national and international business conferences. He has four books and over 50 articles published. The articles have appeared in ComputerWorld, Datamation, Career Focus, and Runner’s World magazines. His book, entitled Finding the I in TEAM: Better Team Building Through Individual Building, focuses on building stronger team members.
He’s completed one hundred 26.2-mile marathons around the world and in thirty States. This included the fridge Antarctica, Kenya’s dangerous Lewa SafriCom, and China’s Great Wall Ma-rathons. In completing marathons on all 7 continents, he made history by becoming the first Black in the world to accomplish this feat. Fewer than 225 people in the world had achieved this goal. (By comparison, over 2,500 people have reached Mt. Everest’s summit, including over 500 in one year.) Subsequently, his journeys were chronicled in his book, Running Shoes Are Cheaper Than Insulin: Marathon Adventures On All Seven Continents and he was featured in the May, 2009 edition of Ebony. He resides in Dallas with his wife, Deborah, a triathlete and minister.
