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Issue: 21
February  2010
Urban Update tapingELP Authors Interviewed on Urban Update: Tune in on 3/7!
Sherry Penney, Founding Director of the ELP, was interviewed by Byron Barnett of WHDH-TV's Urban Update. The interview focused on the Program's Anthology, Voices of the Future: Emerging Leaders, published in the summer of 2009. The anthology contains 20 essays written by ELP alumni. Three essayists were also interviewed for the program: Ron Bell, Office of the Governor, Dr. Chi Huang, Lahey Clinic, and Mary Tolikas, PhD, Wyss Institute. The expected air date is March 7 at 11:30 on WHDH-TV, Channel 7.

In This Issue
ELP Upcoming Events
Other Upcoming Events
ELP Happenings
ELP on the Move
Requests for Assistance
Board Opportunity
Your ELP Alumni Board
Become a Facebook Fan
Brief History of ELP
Community Counts

ELP Upcoming Events

 

Register Today for the 2/25 Breakfast Event!

Managing Your Career: Making the right choices, taking control

2007 cohort listening to team presentationsOn February 25 from 8:30AM to 11:00AM, ELP will offer a professional development opportunity, "Managing Your Career." Join us for a panel discussion with Emerging Leaders Program alums, followed by breakout sessions to hone in on what you need and help you to enhance the skills you already possess. Breakfast will be provided.
 
The moderator is Linda Rossetti ('02), formerly the EVP of HR for Iron Mountain. She will focus the panel discussion around "Setting Career Objectives & Leveraging 'Lessons Learned' from your own Career."  Linda will also share the current state of hiring within Fortune 500 organizations using Iron Mountain as a case study and lead a discussion on how best to network in those environments. Lisa DeAngelis ('03) worked for organizations such as Liberty Mutual and Shawmut Design. Recently she started her own company Leading with Values. In her breakout session, she and fellow co-founder, Anthony DeAngelis will look at the impact of the last 18 months on employees and companies from both the individual and leadership perspective. Paul Francisco ('05) is the founder and managing director of Foster & Francisco, which specializes in placing professionals of color across disciplines and industries & works on retaining quality candidates. He is an HR expert who has honed the technique of recruiting and retaining skilled professionals. Miriam Katz ('06) is the founder and owner of True Calling: career and life coaching. In her session, Miriam will use the "career bullseye" to help participants undergo a process of self-discovery through which they will clarify what motivates them in the workplace. 
 
Join Fellows and Alums for this unique opportunity to further develop what you have learned through the Emerging Leaders Program. RSVP to [email protected]. The event is hosted by the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, room 150.


The Boston Municipal Research Bureau's Annual Luncheon
The ELP has purchased 2 tables at the BMRB's Annual Luncheon featuring Mayor Thomas M. Menino. Five seats are available for the event to be held on March 4 at the Seaport Hotel Boston, Plaza Ballroom. Registration & reception is from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM The luncheon starts at noon. The first five to email Glendalys at [email protected] will reserve their seats ($20 non-refundable deposit required within five business days from RSVP).

Other Upcoming Events

 
The Boston Rotary Club Networking Event 

David Manzi '10 would like to invite you to a networking event on Wednesday, February 24 from 6PM to 8PM at the Boston Park Plaza.  If anyone is interested in going or if you want to learn more about The Boston Rotary Club, contact David Manzi (Vice President of the Boston Rotary Club) at [email protected] or by calling 617-999-3705, or visit their website at www.bostonrotary.org.
 

A Leap Into Spring Fashion

Anthem Entertainment Presents a Fashion Show to Benefit the Children's Trust Fund. A Leap Into Spring Fashion will be held on Friday, February 26th from 8:30PM to 12:30AM at the Revolution Rock Bar (Downstairs Rock Lounge) on 200 High St., Boston. For more information, visit Anthem Events.
 
Thinking Big Moving Forward
Please join the Labor Resource Center and co-sponsors for the next session in the Thinking Big Moving Forward Seminar Series: "Bringing Good Jobs to our Communities" on Thursday, March 4th from 9:00AM - 11:30AM at the Massachusetts State Archives (on the UMass Boston Campus). The event is co-sponsored by Community Labor United, Greater Boston Labor Council, UMass Boston Center for Social Policy. The program will consist of two presentations followed by discussion. Presentations are: Rich Rogers, Greater Boston Labor Council on "Why Good Jobs Matter", Randy Albelda, Center for Social Policy on "The Care Sector: The Next 'Good Jobs' Frontier?", and Jim Snow, Green Justice Coalition/Community Labor United on "Joint Labor and Community Strategies to Win Good Green Jobs"

 

United Way's Annual Board Connection

Join the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley us for their Annual Board Connection on Monday, April 12th from 5:30PM to 8PM at WilmerHale.  If you've ever thought about bringing your expertise, commitment and leadership to the board of a non-profit organization, Board Connection makes it easy to find the right fit. Join them to learn about opportunities at nearly 100 non-profit organizations from throughout the region. To RSVP, go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/S7PW6RV

 
The Sixth Annual Bentley Leadership Forum
Jenny Garner '10 wants to share a Forum that she signed up for taking place at Bentley. The Sixth Annual Bentley Leadership Forum, in cooperation with TIME: "The Business of Healing Our World: Accountable Leadership in Action." The event will be held on Thursday, April 22 from 8:30AM to 1:30PM at the Dana Athletic Center.  See http://leadership-forum.bentley.edu/ for more information.

AFH: Greatest Party on Earth
Artists for Humanity will be holding its annual "Greatest Party on Earth" happening on April 24 from 8PM to 1AM. For more information, please see http://www.afhboston.com/gpoe_tickets.php.

ELP Happenings

 

Emerging Leaders Program 2010 off to a great start

2010 FellowsThe Center for Collaborative Leadership's Emerging Leaders Program kicked off the 2010 program on January 25 with a week-long series of forums for the 44 fellows enrolled this year. The first speaker was Jim Rooney, executive director of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority. Other speakers throughout the week included Gloria Larson, president of Bentley University, José Masso, communication director of the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, John Connor, founder of Boathouse Group, Inc., Sheryl Marshall, business development consultant, and Alan Trefler, CEO of Pegasystems. Fellows also learned tactics in difficult conversations from Rachel Viscomi and Alicia Brinkerhoff of Vantage Partners, about objectivity from Elizabeth Thornton, chief diversity officer of Babson College, and about adaptive leadership and finding your purpose from Lee Teitel of Harvard University. They also honed their networking skills courtesy of Diane Darling ('06) of Effective Networking. Rick Friedel of AT&T and John Herlihy ('03) of Bank of New York Mellon conducted a session based on a real-life experience about how to create a winning culture through teamwork. The weeklong session will be followed by monthly sessions on the second Thursday of every month through July.
 
The session on February 11 was at EMC Corporation. Fellows learned about EMC Corporation and how their top executives view the business shift from local to global, and what role technology plays in leadership and collaboration. They heard from Frank Hauck, Executive Vice President of Global Marketing and Customer Quality and leader of the EMC Storage Division at EMC Corporation and Gail Deegan, Audit Committee Chair, EMC Board of Directors. 
 
The Gift that Keeps on Giving: CSR Report
Described by JD Chesloff of the Massachusetts Business Roundtable as "the gift that keeps on giving" is the report written by ELP alumni from the 2008 cohort for their team project on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The team was asked to survey businesses, corporate philanthropy leaders and trade associations about how they are using CSR and corporate philanthropy strategically to recruit and retain employees. Based on the information, they were asked to write a report to provide models and recommendations to corporations hoping to successfully use CSR as a recruitment and retention strategy. The report received some positive press, and most recently, the latest edition of the American Bar Association's CSR Journal features the CSR report as the first story. Members of the 2008 team who worked on the primer include: Bridget L. Hindle, Sovereign Bank; Cuong P. Hoang, Mott Philanthropic; Chris Lavoie, AT&T; Raj Menon, NSTAR; Quintina Palmer-Woods, Brown Brothers and Harriman; and Shaké Sulikyan, Harvard Medical School. For more information about the primer see News: ELP Corporate Social Responsibility Team works with MA Business Roundtable to Issue a Report.
ELP on the Move

Keep us posted... send information about career moves, advancements, board memberships, birth announcements, etc. to either your class representative (listed below) or to [email protected]. We look forward to hearing from you. 
 
2003
Steve Dodson has been hired as the Vice President of Sales at the CIO Executive Council, a division of IDG. As the Vice President of Sales at the CIO Executive Council, Steve will be committed to developing and leveraging the knowledge and experience of the Council staff in order to drive profitable revenue growth and to shape the Council's U.S. presence and global growth strategy. His start date is March 1, 2010. His email remains [email protected].
 
Jeremy Chi-Ming Liu has moved to the Bay Area, CA to become the new Executive Director of the East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation, where he will continue the innovative and important work of community development as it builds healthy and vibrant neighborhoods and a just future for all. He can be reached at [email protected].
 
2004
2007 cohort listening to team presentationsGeorgianna Melendez and Bob Turner wrote an Op Ed for The Boston Globe, Cooperation key to diverse N.E. faculty. Read the article in Boston.com.

Also, she has started a blog "Just Do You" which can be accessed at http://georgiannasaysjustdoyou.blogspot.com/2010/01/to-choose-or-not-to-choosethat-is.html. She writes, "This blog is about being yourself. Sometimes we are motivated to do things we don't want to or feel we must because of the influence and pressure of others. Life is about choices. Sometimes we really don't have choices and sometimes we just perceive we don't have them. This is a blog about thinking through the difference and being true to yourself." 
 
2005
Root Cause and the Social Innovation Forum presented the 2010 Social Innovation Forum Achievement Award to David Howse, executive director of the Boston Children's Chorus and a long-time supporter of music as a catalyst to unite the city's diverse
communities and inspire social change. The award was sponsored by the Margaret Stewart Lindsay Foundation.
 
2007
Francois and othersFrancois Fils-Aime assisted in a "pennies and parfaits" fundraising effort at the Village School in Marblehead. An assembly was held to discuss a way to collect funds for Haiti. As a result, the 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students donated pennies for 3 weeks and purchased parfaits in the cafeteria. All money collected from the pennies and parfaits was matched by National Grand Bank in Marblehead. Francois shared with the students that he has family in Haiti and that all have been accounted for in Haiti. He also introduced a special guest, his Aunt Elaine Garber, a survivor of the Haiti Earthquake. Elaine spoke with the Village students about her experience in Haiti during and after the earthquake. She thanked the students for all that they will be doing to help Haiti. A story about the day was written up by the Marblehead Reporter

 

Wendy Lement's play Woman with the Red Kerchief (co-written with Tolstoy scholar Firouzeh Mostashari) was selected as one of three full-length plays to receive a professional production at the New England Russian Theatre Festival at Boston Playwrights' Theatre on February 20 and 21. The work will be published in a collection of Russian Theatre Festival plays. Wendy will direct Woman with the Red Kerchief at Regis College on April 22- 25. Russian Theatre Festival information can be found at:

http://www.laulapidescompany.com/Events.html. Her organization, Theatre Espresso will launch their new play American Tapestry: Immigrant Children of The Bread and Roses Strike, to be in residence at Lawrence Heritage State Park beginning fall 2010.  The company is continuing their residency of The Nine Who Dared: Crisis in Little Rock at the John Adams Courthouse in Boston. Wendy will also lead Emerson College's Summer Acting Studio Program, offered through the College's Department of Professional Studies.
 
Amanda Trojan McGrath is writing a blog about her travels abroad. Read her writings about "Oz" at http://amanda.posterous.com/.

Requests for Assistance
 
Annis Gill-Miller ('02), VP, Salem Five Bank, was elected as Board Chair for a small non-profit called "e" inc. -an environmental learning and action center, which educates school aged children about respect for our planet. They are active in a dozen or more after school programs serving over 800 children around Greater Boston and they are having a positive impact on the environment, one child at a time! She is looking for advise and financial support for this grass roots organization. Please visit the "e" inc. website at www.e-action.us and email her at [email protected] to find out more.
  
Barbara St. Louis, ('03), Federal Reserve, needs assistance. Her best friend's daughter is in desperate need of a Bone Marrow Transplant. Her name is Tatyana "Taty" Abrams and she is 11 years old. She was diagnosed with Leukemia in September of 2008. Her only real chance for survival is a bone marrow transplant. Taty does not have a matching donor within the
family and is relying on the Be The Match Registry, a national registry that connects volunteer marrow donors with patients in need of a life-saving transplant. Please contact Barbara at [email protected] to find out ways to help.

Board Opportunity
 
Employment Resources Inc is looking for 1-3 new directors to add to its Board of Directors. This is a combination of one director retiring and a desire to also expand the board from 5 to 7 members. Backgrounds of directors needed- would fill one of the following slots:

HealthCare- with direct hospital experience either on the Administration or Physician side;
Community Based- Regional Business or Political with direct links in any of the following communities: Chelsea, Revere or Everett;
Financial Institution- with direct regional responsibility (branch networks into local communities within the greater Boston area).
 
Resumes should go to Ellen Richstone, Chairman of Nominating Committee, ERI, (
[email protected]

Employment Resources Incorporated (ERI) is a private, dynamic, entrepreneurial, Non-Profit Corporation that has been doing business in the Commonwealth for more than 25 years.
Your ELP Alumni Board 2009 - 2010
Jodi Wolin: Vice Chair
Craig Williams: Secretary/Treasurer
Perry Conrad: Fundraising
Sonal Gandhi and Joe Morrissey: Recruitment
Deb Zarba: Women's Network
Sidney Rodrigues: Technology
classrepsScott Sanborn and Cynthia Terwilliger: 2002 Class Representatives
Todd Meringoff and Lisa DeAngelis: 2003 Class Representatives
Anne Marie Boursiquot-King: 2004 Class Representative
David Howse: 2005 Class Representative
Deb Fournier: 2006 Class Representative
Jason Schupbach: 2007 Class Representative
Bridget Hindle: 2008 Class Representative

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Brief History of ELP

The Emerging Leaders Program is an executive training program for professionals in the Greater Boston area. In the program fellows enhance their leadership skills and learn how to work effectively with other leaders toward specific goals. Each fall, a group of "fellows" is chosen for a 10-month program involving a weeklong seminar, followed by monthly meetings and team projects. At its conclusion, fellows have honed their individual leadership skills in several areas, including communication, conflict resolution, the political process, entrepreneurship, media relations, networking, and teamwork. Click here to learn more

 

Community Counts

Little changes make a big difference. That is one of the underlying premises driving the service-oriented ELP fellows taking big strides toward making the Greater Boston community better. Are you doing great things in the community? Send an email to your class representative listed below.