Business Owner, Executive Pastor, Professor, Leadership and Life Coach Christian Counselor
Clinton spent 25 years with Verizon Communications Inc. before retiring in 2013 as a Director. He led teams in sales, product marketing, product development, training, channel sales, customer marketing and operations and communications, earned multiple President’s Leadership awards, as well as Platinum, Presidents and Diamond Club awards for sales and operations excellence.
He is a business owner and recently sold one of his businesses, an AAMCO franchise, after he and his wife owned it for six years, where he doubled the revenue, was in the top five performing centers annually, was the #1 center out of 42 centers in the Ohio Valley Region in 2017, and one of only 16 national President’s Club winners out of 700 AAMCO shops nationwide.
He is currently a business and marketing Professor at West Virginia State University teaching multiple courses in Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Business Operations.
After serving faithfully in churches going back to his youth, answered a call to serve in the Ministry as an Executive Pastor. He was licensed as an Executive Pastor in 2014 and is a certified Faith Based Counselor specializing in marriage and relationships. He is also a Certified Life Coach.
From 1997-2012 he coached youth and high school baseball teams in Texas, Pennsylvania, and WV. His teams won city championships, two state championships and one national title. He had multiple players earn college scholarships to Division I, II, III and NAIA schools all over the country and was proud to contribute towards their development into productive, responsible, disciplined young men.
His unique mix of experience and success in leading, teaching, developing, coaching people and teams in a Fortune 500, small business and athletic environments has enabled him to fulfill his calling, which is to help people achieve their short and long-term goals and be the best person they can be for themselves, their companies and their families.
The foundation of his experience is education and training. He has a BA in Communications from the University of Kentucky, where he was the baseball team co-captain his senior year. He was also a four-year letterman and All-SEC performer for the baseball team from 1982-1986. He earned an MBA from the University of Charleston and is a graduate of the University of Maryland Executive Leadership Program as well as the Center for Creative Leadership in San Diego, CA.
He has been married to Trina, a retired teacher and UK graduate, for 35 years and they have two grown children. Their daughter Christen Woodard is married to Pastor Brandon Woodard, she is a Mid-wife and they have four children. Their son Clinton Barrett Arnold III is married to Tyra Meadows Arnold. Barrett earned his undergraduate Degree from Coppin State University and an MBA from Marshall University. He is also a Certified Personal Trainer.
