Dear Fellows,
We are pleased to announce that Lisa DeAngelis has been selected as the new Director for the Center for Collaborative Leadership. For the past four months, Lisa has served as Interim Director while we conducted the search for the permanent Director. We had a strong pool of 55 people apply for the Directorship.
Lisa is an alumnus of the program (2003) with substantial corporate experience and demonstrated her many strengths over the last several months. She has led ELP skill sessions, started to recruit new companies to apply to the ELP, and developed a fund raising strategy. We look forward to working with her, building on her knowledge of the program and her vision on how to strengthen the ELP and alumni activities in the future.
During this 10th Anniversary Year, we look forward to her leadership as we prepare for the future.
Join us in welcoming Lisa DeAngelis to our team!
Sincerely,
Sherry, Andrea and Glendalys
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| ELP Happenings |
Award Nomination
 Andrea Wight, Assistant Director of the Center for Collaborative Leadership, was nominated for the UMass Boston Chancellor's Achievement Award. UMass Boston staff members are nominated for demonstrating innovation, initiative, and service. At the ceremony, Andrea received honorable mention.
Emerging Leaders Program Information Sessions
We are currently recruiting for the 2012 Emerging Leaders Program cohort. Please invite your colleagues to attend one of our upcoming Information Sessions. Nominations are due June 15!
See our homepage for more details.
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| ELP Events |
Emerging Leaders Program Night at the BSO
Presentation of American Icons
June 23 at 7:00PM (pre-concert) / 8:00PM (concert)
Symphony Hall, Boston
 Great American songs would be nothing without the iconic artists who perform them. This series of concerts pays tribute to some of these American icons. The June 23 concert includes the music of George Gershwin and Richard Rodgers performed by Broadway stars Kathleen Brett and Ron Raines. Keith Lockhart is conducting.
The BSO has invited ELP Fellows and Alums to attend this concert and a pre-concert reception as a group for a reduced rate of $40. This price includes drinks, light supper, a chance to meet some of the musicians, and orchestra level seats.
Click here for details and registration.
ELP Summer Party
 July 16
ELP Alum Deanna Yameen's House in Weymouth, MA
Join ELP fellows, alums, staff, friends, and family for our annual Summer Party. Deanna Yameen is once again opening her doors, her pool, her kitchen, and her grill to host this event. Save the date.
Center for Collaborative Leadership 10th Year Anniversary Gala
Emerging Leaders Program: Changing the Face of Leadership
November 5
JFK Presidential Library
 Save the date for our Anniversary Gala: Changing the Face of Leadership. Margaret McKenna, President of the Walmart Foundation is the keynote speaker, and we are honoring Sherry Penney, Marsh Carter, George Russell, and the Center's founding board members.
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| Events of Interest |
Cultivating Talent: Building a Better Commonwealth
June 7, 2011 at 3:30 pm
The Boston Globe invites you to the Cultivating Talent forum at The Paramount Center. Speakers include: Nadira Hira, Gen Y expert; Paul English, Co-founder & CTO of KAYAK; Jim Koch, Founder of the Boston Beer Company; Diane Hessan, President and CEO of Communispace; and Scott Kirsner, Innovation Columnist, The Boston Globe. Generate ideas and inject vitality with an open exchange on one of the Commonwealth's critical issues: acquiring and retaining top talent. This event is free and open to the public. Click her to sign up.
Community Outreach Committee, Inc 2011 Golf Tournament
June 9, 2011 at 8:30 am
Alexis Zibell and Jennifer Thibadeau (2011 / Raytheon) would like to invite you to the Community Outreach Committee, Inc. 2011 Golf Tournament benefiting the Victims of Domestic Violence in the Merrimack Valley Region. The tournament will be held on Thursday, June 9 at 8:30 am at Old Newbury Golf Club, Newbury, MA. Entry fee is $125 each, or $500 for teams of four. Registration deadline is May 26. Complimentary Golf Club for Every Player!! Hole in One Prize is a Pebble Beach Vacation for Two!!! Contact Alexis Zibell (ELP 2011): 781-454-9207 or Jennifer Thibadeau (ELP 2011): 203-910-6802 to register or request more information.
The Summer Party: Through the Looking Glass at the MFA
June 11, 2011
Andrew Russell (2011 / MFA) would like to invite you to Boston's favorite fundraiser, The Summer Party: Through the Looking Glass, inspired by the titular exhibition of Dale Chihuly's work at the MFA. The Summer Party promises to be a festive evening to ring in summer amid works of art, music and friends in the Shapiro Courtyard of the new Art of the Americas Wing. Proceeds from the event support the endowment of the MFA's Artist in Residency Program as well as provide vital operating support for the MFA. For tickets, call (617) 369-3268.
Red Sox vs. Blue Jays
July 6, 2011 at 5:00 pm
Chris Sinclair (2011 / Anthem Group) invites you to settle into the Red Sox's 2011 season by taking in a game with some added pre and post game fun provided by Anthem Entertainment!
Start your night off at 5:00pm by taking in batting practice on top of the Green Monster! This is a rare opportunity to watch the team before the game from the best seats in Fenway! Your package also includes a ticket to the game to cheer on the Sox as they take on the Toronto Blue Jays.
Post game, make your way over to The Baseball Tavern where you'll receive free admission and can take in amazing views of Fenway from the roof deck.
In addition, receive automatic entry to win front row tickets behind home plate to a future Sox game! Included is a VIP pre-game tour, watching batting practice from the field, Red Sox Hall of Fame access and other premium advantages! One winner will be chosen following the three Anthem Pre-Game Parties and announced/contacted after July 25th. Click here for tickets.
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| ELP on the Move |
Karen Anderson (2008), Putnam Investments, is happy to announce the birth of Benjamin David Anderson on January 8, 2011. He joins big sister, Lila.
Joe Bator (2008), Eastern Bank, was named the Massachusetts Small Business Financial Champion.
Matt Burrill (2004), Raytheon, was admitted to the Washington DC Bar on May 13.
 Phil Carver (2006), UMass Boston, recently received Boston's Best Neighbor Award. Carlos Vargas, of Vargas & Vargas Insurance, created the award as a way to honor individuals in the community who have demonstrated exceptional care to make their neighborhood a safer and friendlier community for all the residents. Read Article.
Christie Getto Young (2004), Office of State Senator Sal DiDomenico, will be receiving an award from the National Association of Social Workers, Mass. Chapter, as "2011 Senate Staffer of the Year." The ceremony is on June 28. This award honors a senate legislative staffer who has helped support social workers and communities and clients served by social workers throughout the state.
 Kate Gorman (2011)is now the Senior Director of External Relations for Development at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. In addition, she recently gave birth to Carter Matthew Gorman who was born on May 3rd. He weighed 7lb 14oz.
Lisa Letts (2010) of EMC was promoted to Senior Program Manager in Customer Programs.
Hector Lopez-Camacho (2011), State Street Corporation, was promoted to VP of Business Development for Latin America.
Georgianna Melendez, (2004) is featured in the May 20, 2011 Boston Business Journal as an Emerging Leaders. Read Article (may require a paid subscription).
The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority's Mark Michaud (2009), the Authority's senior director of technology business development, has been awarded a 2011 CIO Ones to Watch awards from IDG's CIO magazine and CIO Executive Council. This prestigious honor is given to 25 rising stars in the field of information technology who bring leadership, innovation and value to their organization and are primed to become future CIOs. Michaud accepted the award at the CIO Ones to Watch awards ceremony on May 2, 2011, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., during CIO magazine's Leadership Event. See Press Release.
Lauren Smith (2004), Medical Director for the State, was featured in the Boston Globe article: Hospital C-section rates show wide swing, dated May 17, 2011. Excerpt: What is clear, Smith said, is the need to gather more data and determine whether hospitals with the lowest caesarean rates have the best health outcomes for both mother and baby. That will take better collaboration and data sharing among hospitals. Read Article.
Linda Rossetti (2002), launched NovoFemina.com, a blog dedicated to exploring women's transition issues including defining a process to help women in transition and to share her observations along the way to creating such a process. She intends to dignify a topic that seems too often put on the back burner, diminishing the wonderful energy and rich experiences of women.
Jeff Russell (2010) was promoted to Finance Manager at the Boston Globe. He writes, "I've already put many ELP learnings to good use in my new role."
Jasmine Tanguay (2005) was promoted to Associate Managing Director at CLF Ventures, Inc.-the consulting arm of the Conservation Law Foundation. |
| Erika Beer's Adventures with Oprah | |
 I was at an indoor play space with my two small children on a Tuesday morning in August of 2010 when I got a phone call from the Oprah Winfrey show. A few days earlier, I had written in to the show answering the question they had posted on the Oprah website asking people if they were "an ultimate viewer." I've been watching the show religiously for 20 plus years and since I was a teenager I have rarely missed an episode. I never expected much to come of what I had written, I just wanted to say thank you to Oprah for all these years of providing me with such moving and inspiring television. Her show has impacted me like no other. So, I was floored when a producer at the Oprah show called. I answered several of her questions and then never heard from her again. Two weeks later I received an email inviting me and a guest to come to Chicago for a taping of the Oprah show. I was beyond excited and in less than two weeks, my long time friend Amy and I were on a plane to Chicago, leaving our young families behind. I was so excited to see the show, because I knew there was a potential for a big surprise, this being Oprah's last season. When the curtain opened and Oprah walked out with John Travolta and told us this was the season premiere of her very last season, we were blown away. Then she told us she was taking all of us "Ultimate Viewers" with her to Australia and we nearly lost our minds with excitement and joy!
Two months later all 302 of us were on a plane for a 12 day adventure-Oprah Winfrey style- to Australia. We touched down in Sydney to a hero's welcome. Turns out the whole country was expecting us! We were embraced everywhere we went with a red  carpet welcome. The trip was a huge departure from our daily lives and the itinerary was non stop with surprises and adventures. One surprise was a flight from Sydney to beautiful Hamilton Island, the gateway island to the Great Barrier Reef, where 100 of us stayed in an impressive hotel overlooking the bay for 3 nights. From there we took a boat to Whitehaven Beach, one of the top ten most beautiful beaches in the world, where we partied with a spread put on by celebrity chef Curtis Stone and where Oprah arrived by helicopter to greet us. We snorkeled in the Great Barrier Reef, sailed in a regatta of 20 plus sailboats with Oprah and Russell Crowe, and climbed the Sydney Harbor Bridge with Oprah and the entire audience setting a world's record for the largest group to ever climb the bridge at one time. One of the highlights of the trip was going to see U2 and Jay Z with thousands of Australians at Sydney's Olympic Stadium. The last day of the trip all 302 of us got prime seats at two Oprah show tapings at the Sydney Opera House. All 6,000 audience members received diamonds and pearls.
I look back on the trip sometimes and pinch myself. I would have to say that as exciting as it was the best part for me was that the very last moment before I boarded the plane I got a chance to look Oprah in the eye, give her a hug and say "Thank you." That was a moment I will never forget.
Erika Beer is an alum of the 2007 cohort. She is the Alumni Volunteer Program Manager at State Street Corporation. |
| Red Sox Event to Benefit Dorchester Academy a Huge Success | |
 The 2011 cohort collaborated to put together a charitable event to benefit Dorchester Academy, a UMass neighbor and the school where fellow ELP'er Jill Blouin teaches. Under the initiative and leadership of Chris Sinclair - founder of Anthem Events - members of the 2011 cohort accepted donations in exchange for VIP packages for the April 16th Red Sox game at Fenway. More than 85 tickets were sold and proceeds were given to the Dorchester Academy for equipment updates and infrastructure renovations.
Plans are underway for a similar fund raiser event in the Summer to benefit the Latino STEM Alliance. LSA is a startup 501c3 initially working to develop afterschool and summer programs targeted at underprivileged youth at the K-16 levels, including parental engagement and cultural-alignment, focused around Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM). LSA was co-founded by Raul Porras (2011) of EMC Corporation.
For more information contact Chris Sinclair or Raul Porras.
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| Opportunities | |
Speakers for Urban Science Academy Needed
Nicole Gittens (2010), Headmaster of the Urban Science Academy, is looking for volunteer speakers for a speaker series at Urban Science Academy. This person would speak to an audience of 300 high school students to provide information about their field and the educational process it took to get into the field. This person should be lively and make easy connections with a teen audience. In particular she is looking for speakers in STEMs fields. Anyone interested in this monthly series should contact Sheneya Allen to get on the calendar for next year. The series will start in October 2011 and go through May 2012.
Additionally, the Urban Science Academy is looking for internship opportunities for 9 - 12 grade in STEMs careers. These shadow experiences should allow students to observe and work in the fields. Paying internships are a plus. Also contact Sheneya Allen for this opportunity.
Join the Rotary Club of Boston
As of July 1, David Manzi (2010) will become president of The Rotary Club of Boston. He would like to invite fellow ELP alumni to become members in the 7th oldest Rotary Club in the world. The Rotary Club is a group of business, and community leaders who want to expand their motto of "Service above Self". They have a strong International Committee with completed projects in Romania, Japan, and Guatemala to name a few. Their main event is the Governors Prayer Breakfast where Gov. Patrick, Mayor Menino, Senator Brown, religious leaders in the city covering all faiths come together at The Park Plaza to reflect and enjoy breakfast. It will be held on November 16 this year.
Membership is very inexpensive and what you get out of it (networking, giving back, service, friendship etc.) is tremendous! Please email David Manzi and he would be happy to discuss membership in The Rotary Club of Boston.
Sports Celebrity Speakers
The Anthem Group, a multi-faceted event and experiential marketing agency, has expanded its services to offer leadership, motivational and team building speakers from the professional sports industry. The Anthem roster includes both current and retired athletes from all four major sports and the Olympics. Additionally, marquee coaches, agents and media personalities are available. Recent Boston area engagements have included N.E. Patriot, Wes Welker, ESPN/NESN broadcaster, Peter Gammon's, Sports Illustrated journalist Peter King, and Boston Bruin Shawn Thorton. Individuals from all Boston teams are currently available.
Adding a celebrity speaker or appearance is the ideal way to capture your audience. The most common topics are leadership development, managing change, overcoming adversity, team building and diversity.
Professional sports provide a unique platform that demonstrates the same skill set necessary in the business world. Whether you have a training, sales conference, fundraiser, employee appreciation outing or other event for clients or your own team - adding the right personality makes a lasting impression and resonates your message.
Contact ELP Fellow, Chris Sinclair at 617.308.8459 or via email at csinclair@anthemevents.com for more information or with questions. |
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| Pay it foward | |
On this 10th Anniversary Year, we are launching the Pay it Forward Campaign with a goal of 100% ELP alumni participation and to raise $25,000 for this milestone year. We must highlight to funders and the larger community overall that our alumni believe in and support this program. This will serve to strengthen our fundraising and recruitment efforts. Look for your letter in the mail, and please, Pay it Foward. Click here to donate. |
| Pay it foward donors as of May 23 | | Thank you to: |
Hugh Drummond '04
Tom Henderson '07
Tara O'Meara '10
Jodi Wolin '06 |
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2 ELP Alumni Board Positions Open: Members Needed
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Stay involved in the ELP! Join the alumni board. Two open positions remain.
Executive Committee
Secretary/Communications
Class Representative
2002
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Click here for more information about the board.
Email Joe Bator if you are interested in serving.
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ELP Alumni Board
2011-2012 | |
Executive Committee
Joseph Bator, Chair
Andrea Zuniga, Vice Chair
Jodi Wolin, Past Chair
TBD, Secretary
Committee Chairs
Steve Roger, Fundraising
Carolyn Eggert, PR/Marketing
Jesse Wong, Social
Lauren Jones, Recruitment
Jabes Rojas, Programming
Class Representatives
TBD, 2002
Steve Dodman, 2003
Christie Getto Young, 2004
Susan Crandall, 2005
Freddie Peterson, 2006
Leah McLean, 2007
Silvia Sarra, 2008
Devin Cole, 2009
Ellen Piccioli and Danielle Prentis, 2010
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