John Carroll is the Executive Director of City Leadership and Founder of Choose901. Originally from Murfreesboro, TN, he and his wife Ashleigh came to Memphis via Texas twelve years ago to become the V.P. of Ugly Mug Coffee.
After several years of side consulting with nonprofits while serving as a pastor at Fellowship Memphis, John launched his own to serve other nonprofits, schools, churches, and government agencies.
City Leadership exists to recruit, develop, and catalyze leaders for the City of Memphis. They proactively identify the challenges of other leaders in our city and try to help them find the best solutions and more efficiently achieve their missions.
John and Ashleigh live in Midtown with their four children: JAC 12, Charis 10, Abigail 9, and Jones 8.