Atlanta Communities Real Estate Brokerage Adds Carley Stephens as Director of Strategic Development

ATLANTA - May 26, 2016 - PRLog -- Carley Stephens, in her new position, will focus on the growth of the company, including retention of current agents, recruitment, marketing, event planning and adding to the firm's services and technology to help agents reach their full potential.

"The culture at Atlanta Communities is incredible. As the Director of Strategic Development, I am focused on bringing the right people into that culture," explains Carley Stephens. "When you have an amazing company like Atlanta Communities, it is not difficult to find people wanting to be a part of this organization. The difficulty lies in finding the right people, those who fit the culture, are experienced, professional and experts in real estate. We have experienced tremendous growth and success over the past few years and my goal is to accelerate that growth and success-not just for the company, but our agents as well."

Stephens' background includes serving as association executive for two different Realtor associations, the Camden-Charlton Association of Realtors in St. Marys, Ga., and the Cherokee Board of Realtors locally. She is a graduate of the 2012 Leadership Cherokee class, was a 2015 Atlanta Top 40 Under 40 nominee, and was named the Camden Charlton Business Woman of the Year in 2010. Stephens also spent more than five years in development/fundraising leadership position, first with the United Way of Greater Atlanta and then the Goshen Valley Foundation, a nonprofit, foster youth organization in Cherokee County.

When not focusing on real estate marketing and expansion, Stephens serves on the Advisory Board for Macy's and is active in her church. She resides in Marietta.

"Carley Stephens has an extensive leadership background as well as an excellent working knowledge of the challenges real estate professionals face in their businesses," says Judson Adamson, founder and CEO of Atlanta Communities. "She will be essential in our future growth."

This spring, Atlanta Communities was again the youngest real estate firm to make the Atlanta Business Chronicle's Top 10 Residential Real Estate Organizations list. Atlanta Communities actually moved up a spot on this list from 2015. The metro Atlanta real estate firm was also just named to the prestigious national list known as the Real Trends 500. This list ranks the top 500 U.S. real estate firms by annual sales performance and Atlanta Communities cracked the top 100 for the first time, placing No. 81 for 6,208 transactions in 2015.

Atlanta Communities is a residential real estate brokerage that assists home buyers and sellers primarily in the north metro Atlanta region. To learn more about metro Atlanta real estate or to conduct a property search of the local real estate market, visit www.AtlantaCommunities.net or call 770-240-2001.

Formed by Judson Adamson in 2009, Atlanta Communities Real Estate Brokerage has been named one of Atlanta's top 100 fastest-growing private companies for three consecutive years. Comprised of more than 750 agents and five locations, Atlanta Communities increased its total volume in 2015 by 32 percent, reaching over $1.3 billion in annual gross sales. The firm also earned the prestigious Inc. 5000 Award as one of America's fastest-growing privately held companies last year.