As a member of United Way Emerging Leaders, you receive exclusive invitations to events that help build your leadership capacity and expand your network.

Read more about our March events, Leadership Live and Board Boot Camp.

Tillie Hidalgo Lima

There are people we meet in life who have amazing business accomplishments and who inspire us to achieve more professionally. Then there are people who, through the way they live their lives, inspire us to make a difference personally. Tillie Hidalgo Lima is one of those rare individuals who is incredibly inspiring both personally and professionally.

Tillie is CEO of Best Upon Request, a concierge services firm that helps companies improve bottom line profit performance by helping employees better integrate their work and personal lives. Under her leadership, Best Upon Request has nearly quadrupled in size and in 2005 was awarded the Small Business Excellence Award for minority business of the year by the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber.

But her role as a mother and volunteer leader in organizations like the Girl Scouts, YWCA, the Cincinnati Chamber's Women Excel Executive Advisory Board, Leadership Cincinnati Steering Committee and Agenda 360, is what provides Tillie with a fulfilling life, which, as she puts it, "helps define my dash."1

Join your fellow Emerging Leaders for breakfast with Tillie as she shares her insights and views on leadership. 

1 Excerpt from Ohio Means Business

Begin your tour of duty as a nonprofit board member by learning what's involved in serving on a board and how to find a board that's a good fit for you.  Emerging Leaders will learn from Jane Page-Steiner, president of JPS Nonprofit Strategies, as she discusses:

• How nonprofits operate
• Primary responsibilities of a board
•  Expectations board members should anticipate 
• What a board service experience looks like