ACT Ready for Work
Podcast Episode 25

About Chad Chancellor 

While growing up in a small town in 1991, Chad Chancellor had an experience that would chart the direction of his career. A Fortune 100 company laid off his father to move a manufacturing plant overseas. From that day on, Chancellor made it his life’s mission to help create economic growth for small and mid-sized companies and communities of site location work and economic development consulting. His most recent successes include: Image Industries’ location of a 50-job manufacturing facility in Clarksdale, Mississippi; Sterling Packaging’s location of a 55-job manufacturing plant in Monroeville, Alabama; Hydro-Gear’s 40-job expansion of a manufacturing plant in Princeton, Kentucky; Polymer Logistics location of a 110-job distribution center in Dublin, Georgia; and a 40-job distribution center in Portage, Indiana.  

Chancellor is the Co-Founder and CEO of Next Move Group, LLC. He is responsible for the implementing the company’s long-term mission of creating economic growth for small and mid-sized companies and communities. Chancellor oversees the company’s quality control processes and provides technical expertise for all the services we offer. Chancellor has served on the boards of directors for the 17-state Southern Economic Development Council and the American-Canadian Chamber of Commerce. In 2010, the 17-state Southern Economic Development Council honored Chancellor with its prestigious “Service to the Profession” award. Chancellor is a graduate of Mississippi State University and an alumni of Delgado Community College in New Orleans.