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Please alert us to grads and participants (including yourself) in the news for future issues of the log.
Christopher Brussalis,
LP XIII, President & CEO, The Hill Group, Inc. named President of
the Board of Directors of the
Andrew Carnegie Free Library and Music Hall.
Dina Clark,
LP XXIII, named Director, Center for Race and Gender Equity,
YWCA Greater Pittsburgh.
Craig Davis, LP XXV, Vice President of Marketing, VisitPittsburgh, in a recent Pittsburgh Business Times article.
Dawn Keezer, LP
XII, Director, Pittsburgh Film Office, in a recent WHIRL
Magazine article.
Rick Landesberg,
LP XVII, Principal,
Landesberg Design, in a recent POP
City article.
Petra Mitchell,
LP XXIII, President &
CEO, Catalyst Connection and R. Daniel Lavelle,
LDI IX, Councilman, City of Pittsburgh quoted in a
recent Pittsburgh
Business Times article.
Todd Moules,
LP XXI, President, Western PA region, First Niagra
Bank, in a recent Pittsburgh
Business Times article.
Dr. Audrey Murrell, LP XVI, Associate Professor of Business & Director of David Berg Center for Ethics & Leadership in a recent Pittsburgh Business Times article.
Dr. Helen
Sobehart, LP
XI, named Executive Director of ASSET Inc.
Congratulations
to Larry Hokaj, LP XXVI, Chief
Technology Officer, Greater Pittsburgh
Community Food Bank, for being selected as a "Pittsburgh
Technology Council CIO of the Year"
Finalist!
Roselyn Wilkinson, LP XXVI, Vice President, MD & A Financial Management Co., in a recent Pittsburgh Business Times article.
FUTURE LPInc Grad
Congratulations
to Kelleigh Boland, LDI XVII,
Director of Research, Planning and
Business Development, Three Rivers
Workforce Investment Board, and her
husband Rob Boland, on the birth of their
baby boy, Connor.
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diverse group of leaders to serve southwestern Pennsylvania. Our
mission is to strengthen regional leadership through programs,
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LPInc Announcements
& Upcoming Events
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Leadership Pittsburgh Inc. programs are catalysts that speed "grasp" of the region while building meaningful connections and developing capacities of established and emerging leaders from the corporate, public, and nonprofit sectors. Encourage those in your network to experience the value of LPInc. programs and apply to Leadership Pittsburgh or Leadership Development Initiative. Applications for Leadership Pittsburgh XXVII are DUE the first Friday in May. Applications for Leadership Development Initiative XVIII are DUE the first Friday in June. Applications and schedules for 2010-2011 are available at www.lpinc.org. Please contact the office at info@lpinc.org | 412.392.4505 for more information!
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LPInc.
2010 Public Agenda Series--Issues
and People in the News
Jon Delano, LP V (Money and Politics Editor, KDKA-TV) will moderate and enable YOU to ask that questions that you want to ask! Featuring Representative Joe Markosek, 25th District, PA House of Representatives/Chairman, House Transportation Committee, and PA Secretary of Transportation Allen Biehler, LP III, as they address opportunities and challenges for our region related to transportation and infrastructure.
When:
May 28th, 2010
Thank you to our 2010 Public
Agenda Series Sponsors
Media Sponsors
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POPUP PITTSBURGH! Up on the Hilltop! May 15, 2010
POPUP PITTSBURGH! is coming to the Hilltop on May 15, 2010. POP UP PITTSBURGH! is the culminating class project of Leadership Development Initiative (LDI). The project allows the LDI class to use their STAR performer skills in a community setting through its planning and implementation. Come and see how 52 of our region's emerging leaders will make the Hilltop Neighborhoods "POP UP!" Family friendly event activities include:
Bring your kids, nieces, nephews, neighbors, etc!
Check out Natalia Rudiak,
Pittsburgh City Council, District 4, promoting POP
UP Pittsburgh! Up on the Hilltop on Facebook.
*************** LPInc. Partners with the Pittsburgh Technology Council for "FedEx's Outlook: Strategic Talent Management with Shannon Brown" HR Leaders in Western PA have spoken! The #1 issue identified in the recent Annual HR Leadership Survey was the acquisition, retention, and development of talent needed to achieve their organization's strategy.Leadership Pittsburgh Inc., the Pittsburgh Technology Council, the HR Leadership Forum of Western PA, and the Pittsburgh Human Resources Association are joining forces to bring you the latest, most innovative best practices and thought leadership in strategic talent management. Shannon Brown, Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Chief Human Resources Officer, FedEx will focus on the business issues that have driven FedEx's talent management and leadership development strategies. Come and learn from a world-class organization that has been an industry leader in human resources for many years.
When:
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Contact events@pghtech.org or call 412.918.4229 to register at the special price of $40. *************** One-Day Intensive Workshop by TEDx Leadership Pittsburgh Presenter and Author of The Medici Effect, Frans Johansson
Frans
Johansson, author of the best selling book The Medici Effect
and TEDx
Leadership Pittsburgh Presenter,
will be on the campus of Carnegie
Mellon University to lead an intensive workshop on how you can
gain fresh perspective on driving innovation through diversity--and
this means "diversity"
in the broadest sense of the word.
Attendance is limited.
When: Wednesday,
June 22, 2010
$1,980 one
team of four; $2,500 one
team of four May 16 and after
For
more information and to register: http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?eventid=857796
Champions
Connection: "Energizing Our Economy: From Green Building to
Natural Gas"
When:
May 26th, 2010 from 5:30 -
7:30
PM
RECENT LPInc Programs "Leadership with a TWIST" Part Deux! Thank you to all who came out on March 31st for our 2nd Guest Bartending Event at VILLA on the Southside. Special thank you to Betsy Benson, LP XXI, Publisher/VP, Pittsburgh Magazine; Andrew Stockey, LP XXIV, Anchor, WTAE-TV; Hon. Jake Wheatley, Jr., LDI VII, State Rep., PA House of Representatives for serving their cocktail creations and helping us raise money for LPInc.'s Scholarship Fund.
TOP ROW,
LEFT: Andrew Stockey, LP XXIV; RIGHT:Betsy Benson,
LP XXI
*************** Leadership Pittsburgh XXVI -- Reshaping Communities Session On Thursday, April 8, 2010, LP XXVI engaged in their Reshaping Communities Session. The session provided class members with lenses through which to identify and examine challenges facing neighborhood redevelopment in Pittsburgh. Most importantly, it offered inspiration to further involve themselves in the redevelopment of Homewood and other communities.
LEFT: Barbara
Taylor, LP XXVI
*************** LDI XVII Community Leader Conversations This Community Leader Conversations Session for LDI XVII featured Kate Dewey (Dewey & Kaye, LP VIII), Saleem Ghubril (Pittsburgh Promise), Joe Lagana (Homeless Children's Fund, LP III) and Aaron Walton (Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, LP VII). The session took place on the Pittsburgh Project campus to help highlight the impact of successful leadership efforts in the community
RIGHT: Aaron Walton, LP VII and LDI class participant, Mike Ressler A big thank you to all of our graduates and friends who joined the LPI Connective or renewed memberships between March 24 and April 20. Click here to learn more about how you can join; we would love to feature YOU on this list!
SPECIAL Announcements
Leadership
OnBoard "Stories
of Service"
Lenny Chan, LDI XVI, Coordinator of Student Development and Housefellow, Carnegie Mellon University, was matched with CONTACT Pittsburgh for the Leadership OnBoard (LOB) 2009-2010 program year. After serving for a few months on the CONTACT Pittsburgh board in the LOB guest capacity, Lenny was asked to serve as a full voting board member. Based on the wonderful experience Lenny had during his LOB term, he enthusiastically accepted. Lenny had this to say, "My LOB experience has allowed me to be engaged in many different aspects of the CONTACT Pittsburgh board. This comprehensive view of the organization will allow me to be more effective as I transition into my new role as a board member." To learn how you can become a part of Leadership OnBoard for 2010-2011 either as an LDI graduate or host organization, contact Danielle Tyson, Graduate & External Affairs Manager, at 412.392.2248 | danielle@lpinc.org *************** Check out LP XXVI Participant Steve Nolder on Comcast Local Edition! Steve Nolder, LP XXVI Participant and VP of Human Resources for LANXESS Corp., recently participated in an interview for Comcast Local Edition where he talks about LPInc and the Leadership Pittsburgh Program, and encourages others to participate. |
Want
to Know
What
it Takes
to be "A
Star at Work?"
Want to Brush Up
Your Star Performer Skills to Shine More Brightly? Curious about the
Leadership Model being Utilized in Current Leadership Development
Initiative Classes?
Then
register to
attend AND RECEIVE A SPECIAL LPI DISCOUNT at University of Pittsburgh's
Katz School of Business
Center for Executive Education's 3-day
program (led by David Binder, LDI Program Advisor, Principal
Consultant of Avid Learner, Inc. and Adjunct Professor).
For
more
information, click here (www.lpinc.org/pittprogram.pdf)
When:
May 10, 2010 Leadership, Followership and Star
Performance
May
11, 2010 Cross Organizational Influence
May
12, 2010 C-level Communication
Time:
8:30
AM
-
4:30 PM
Where:
5th
floor of Alumni Hall, University of Pittsburgh (former
Masonic Temple building located across from the Cathedral of
Learning on the 5th Avenue side)
Fee:
$695/per
individual course
Leadership
Pittsburgh Alumni receive a 10% discount, $625.50/per
individual course and a 15% discount/all three courses (and receive a
Certificate in Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness from the
University of Pittsburgh).
Course
materials, light dinner and beverages will be provided to the class.
To
register please call 412-648-1600 or use this link for on-line
registration: http://www.business.pitt.edu/cee/programs/calendar.php
Submitted
by:
Dr. Audrey Murrell, LP XVI, Associate Professor of Business
Administration, Psychology, Public & International Affairs - Director,
David Berg Center for Ethics & Leadership, University of Pittsburgh
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Opportunity for Board Service
The United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation (UMDF) is seeking members for its Board of Trustees. UMDF is a national organization whose mission is to promote research and education for the diagnosis, treatment and cure of mitochondrial disorders and to provide support to affected individuals and families. Board meetings are quarterly (3 by teleconference and 1 at a symposium which rotates around the country).
For more information, please contact Marian J. Weil, Director of Development, United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation, 412.793.8077 or marian.weil@umdf.org.
Submitted by: Marilyn Sullivan, LP XVII, Executive Director, Sullivan and Sullivan Consulting.
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Join The NPC Water Matters! Delegation on Thursday June 3rd
Calling civic-minded young professionals for the World Environment Day (WED) Water Matters! Global Water Conference. Attend with the New Pittsburgh Collaborative (NPC), and help ensure that the young professional community is educated and engaged in this significant event exploring water regarding health, energy and economic development worldwide--and the opportunities and challenges in our region's ample supply.
And SAVE THE DATE for the next NPC HUB Event: Liquid Knowledge: Young Professionals on Why Water Matters!
The NPC Recap of Pittsburgh's
Global Water Conference
June 15, 5:30 -
8 PM
at Bricolage (Downtown)
Co-Presented by Global Solutions Pittsburgh, the Green Building Alliance
and the WED Partnership
How and why to join the NPC/WED Delegation:
1. Register
for the Water Matters! Conference at www.PittsburghWED.com.
2. Email
NPCcontact@gmail.com with your interest and contact info.
3. Get a $5 refund
on the $25 registration + help us present the highlights at the June
15 HUB (host. unify. blend.)
Details at www.NewPittsburghCollaborative.org
Submitted by: Abby Sadowsky, LDI XVI, LOB XI, Communications Specialist, The Allegheny Conference on Community Development
***********
LDI Special Rate for City Theatre's "Mad + Mod" 2010 Gala!
In recognition of the importance of younger City Theatre enthusiasts, there are 20 City Theatre Gala & Auction (http://citytheatrecompany.org/gala.html) tickets available especially for young professionals at the drastically reduced price of $100 (regular price: $225!), but you must act now before they run out!
To take advantage of this spectacular offer, call Dianne Duursma at 412-431-4400 x278 NOW to reserve your tickets.
WHEN:
Monday, May 24, 2010 from 5:30
- 10:00pm
WHERE: Heinz Field East Club Lounge
Regular cost $225 per person--special
young professional rate $100.
Submitted by: Abby Sadowsky, LDI XVI, LOB XI, Communications Specialist, The Allegheny Conference on Community Development
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