Executive Leadership and Leadership Team
The Management Team works as one team committed to Volunteer’s Mission. It is the Team’s belief that the key to organizational success lies in creating an environment where people thrive. Volunteer’s Management Team holds that philosophy and serves with a set of high standards by which the organization is measured, a set of values about how employees, colleagues, and communities ought to be treated and a set of principles that makes this organization unique and distinctive.
The following dedicated professionals are committed to excellence in the provision of mental health services. As dedicated leaders they serve together to reach desired goals, and they encompass decades of service in the Behavioral Health field. They are focused with a sense of direction for the future to the organization, employees and communities.
Executive Leadership Team
Phyllis Persinger
Chief Executive Officer / President
Greg Lewis
Sr. Clinical Director
Gala Murray
Chief Compliance Officer
Amanda Cook
Chief Business Development Officer
Missy Johnson
Chief Human Resources Officer
Angela Hampton
Chief Administrative Officer
Dawn Carlton
Chief Financial Officer
Aaron Hall
Chief Information Officer / Chief Technology Officer
Dr. Troy Gilson
Medical Director
Dianne Jackson
Executive Assistant
Carrie Robinson
Sr. VP of Operations
Robert Edmonds
Sr. VP of Operations
Nathan Miller
Sr. VP of Operations
Tonya Ballew
Regional VP of Operations
Richard French
Executive VP
Danielle Smith
Director of Corporate Communication & Affairs
Leadership Team
Connie Farmer
Sr. Vice President of Specialized Grants & Services
Laura Tedesco
Sr. Vice President of Crisis Services
Leah Pastula
Sr. Director of Crisis Services
Cindy Sneed
Sr. Vice President of Co-Occurring & Addictions Services
Angie Stokes
Vice President of Nursing
Mary Chesnut
VP of Housing
Ella Britt
VP of Community Outreach
Beth Tucker
Clinical Director
Tamara Crutcher
Director of Auditing and Monitoring
Jeff Phillips
Property Director
Paris Freeman
Centralized Access/Customer Service Director
Bryan Herriman
Center Director
Shane Farris
Center Director
Kory Hendersen
Center Director
Shirley Jennings
Center Director
Haylee McPhearson
Center Director
Janet Parrish
Center Director
Christopher Sales
Center Director
Anne Stamps
Senior Center Director
