Center for Collaborative Leadership
The ELP Exchange Newsletter
Issue 51
  January 2015

 

 

Happy New Year!

 

We reflect on 2014 as a year of growth. For the past decade, the Center for Collaborative Leadership has maintained a singular focus of identifying and nurturing Greater Boston's future leaders. With a strong network of over 500 alumni of the Emerging Leaders Program, Boston has already begun to feel the effect of this focus as these individuals assume key leadership roles across the region. This past year, the center leveraged the success of the Emerging Leaders Program as a springboard to extend our presence in the arena of leadership. We expanded programming  for our alumni and other local leaders to address the issues they face in their current leadership roles and will face in the future. We also increased the center's use of technology to deliver programming via a webinar series.

As we move forward, it is with an eye towards envisioning the next decade by expanding the offerings of the Center for Collaborative Leadership and cultivating leadership talent for the future.

We look forward to continuing the journey with you - our alumni advocates, ambassadors and partners. Thank you for your continued support. 

Sincerely,





Lisa DeAngelis
Director

 

In This Issue
Our Events
Webinar Series
Happenings
ELP on the Move
Opportunities
New Book
Have News?
Our Events
ELP January Social
January 15 from 5:30 - 8:00 pm
Lincoln Tavern (South Boston)
Click here to register

Join us for the January 15 ELP Networking Social. This month fellows are learning about leadership and the community at the Boston Globe. After, we are meeting at the Lincoln Tavern nearby in South Boston. We invite you to stop by and join us.  Please register for planning purposes.

Building a Better Boston Award Breakfast
February 5 from 7:30 to 9:30 am
Boston Convention and Exhibition Center
Click here to register online | Click here for more information 

Michelle A. Shell Ring in the New Year with the UMass Boston Center for Collaborative Leadership on February 5th at the Third Annual Building a Better Boston Award Breakfast. This year we have the privilege to honor Michelle A. Shell, Chairman of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority for her work as a convener and collaborator.

This breakfast is the perfect opportunity for you to renew your connections with alumni and with the Center for Collaborative Leadership as well as network with Boston's top influencers.

Standard tickets are $50 per person. However, to make this event even more meaningful, we are calling on alums to sponsor ELP Alumni Tables. For just $75 per person, a group of 10 alums can collaborate by purchasing a table for a total of $750 ($48 of each $75 ticket is tax-deductible). You can register online at the $75 level, and center staff will work with your class representative to build the table. Alternatively, if you are under financial constraints, the ELP Alumni Board is offering donated seats (as they become available). Sign up if you would like to take advantage of this offer. Please note that registration for a donated seat does not guarantee a seat.

This event is sponsored by the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority. Current fellows in the 2015 cohort are attending for free courtesy of Commerce Bank & Trust, Cohort Sponsor. Additional table sponsors to date include Eastern Bank, Moulter & Associates and the Westin Copley Hotel.

Authentic Leadership
Part III of the Leadership on the Horizon Series
March 5, 2015 from 9 am to 5 pm
In partnership with the Authentic Leadership Institute
$750 for a full day workshop - early bird and other discounts available
Click here to register

Twentieth century leadership models are no longer viable for today's leadership challenges. To lead effectively, you must discover your Authentic Leadership style - the clear and unique expression of your leadership that enables others to trust and follow you. By being true to yourself, motivated by a higher purpose and not a narrow self-interest, you will be able to demonstrate high integrity and deliver results in a way that creates sustained value for your organization. In this workshop, we will use stories, exercises, and small group activities to explore your strengths, motivations and personal values to create an action plan to integrate into your leadership goals.

Webinar Series
The Center for Collaborative Leadership is pleased to announce the upcoming leadership webinar series, Affecting Positive Change in the Workplace: For Success in Life and Leadership.

Team Emotional Intelligence
January 28 from 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Click here to register

About the webinar:
Why do some teams have passionate members who go the extra mile for the team and others have members who only do what is necessary, if that? Why do some teams thrive when challenged and others fall apart? Why do some teams have members who collaborate effectively and other teams have members who can barely work together? Dr. Druskat and Dr. Wolff's research shows that one answer to these questions is that highly effective teams have much higher team emotional intelligence. In this webinar you will learn what Team Emotional Intelligence is, how to create it, and how to put its power to work for you to create a high-performance team.

About the facilitators:
Vanessa Druskat Dr. Vanessa Druskat is an internationally recognized expert on work team effectiveness, team leadership, and emotional intelligence. When she isn't teaching undergraduate, MBA and Executive MBA courses at University of New Hampshire, she spends her time researching and consulting on topics of work team effectiveness and team leadership in organizations that range from Fortune 100 Companies to nonprofits. She is passionate about identifying the behaviors and strategies that differentiate the highest performing leaders and teams from those that perform at average levels.

Steve Wolff Dr. Steven Wolff is a leading expert on team emotional intelligence. His research has demonstrated the important role that team emotional intelligence plays in the effectiveness of teams. His research interests and expertise include leadership development, group emotional intelligence, team effectiveness, peer feedback, organizational learning, and organizational resilience. His work has been published in leading journals including the Journal of Applied Psychology and Harvard Business Review. Dr. Wolff is currently a principal at GEI Partners, an organization dedicated to building high-performing teams. GEI Partners provides services that are grounded in theory and have been shown, through research, to be effective.

Happenings
Commerce Bank Sponsors Four Tables to Support ELP Fellows
In 2007 an Emerging Leaders Program team was charged with helping to identify ways for Boston to retain young professionals. Their recommendation was to create awards recognizing individuals who have improved the community. Their research suggested that young professionals would have more faith in the organizations they work for and the region by seeing these efforts receiving recognition. Thus, the center created the Building a Better Boston award. Recognizing the benefits of exposing the current fellows to this event, Commerce Bank & Trust has stepped forward to help the center to create a Cohort Sponsorship.  In this role, Commerce Bank has invited the 41 fellows in the 2015 cohort to attend the event as their guest. Nate Pusey, chair of the center's board of advisors, and an alum of the 2003 cohort, is responsible for making this sponsorship possible. Thank you to Nate for taking the concept of "paying it forward" to another level.   

ELP Holiday Party
Deanna Yameen, Sherry Penney, Darlene Ellis-Donahue On December 10 the Emerging Leaders Program celebrated the holidays with our annual get-together. Darlene Ellis-Donahue, chair of the ELP alumni board, was on hand to offer her thanks to the alumni in the room for keeping the network vibrant and strong. In addition, for the first time, the get-together served as a means to provide toys for families in need through Project Hope. Thank you to those who attended and who also provided donations. We look forward to doing it again next year.  

New Center for Collaborative Leadership Board Member
Johanna Storella The center would like to welcome Johanna Storella '08, to our board of advisors. Johanna is the chief strategy officer at the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority (MCCA). She leads the team that provides overall strategic direction for MCCA organizational and functional initiatives, focused on maximizing the MCCA's capital and intellectual assets and examining new product opportunities, acquisitions, alliances, and alternative distribution strategies associated with event operations.

Nominations for the 2016 Cohort
The nomination link is open to collect nominations for the fellows in the 2016 Emerging Leaders Program. The nomination deadline is April 8. If you work for an organization that has not sent a fellow in the recent past, we'd welcome the opportunity to meet with your organization to discuss how the program benefits your organization and your leaders. Please contact Lisa DeAngelis to learn more. 

ELP on the Move 
Karen Anderson '08 has transitioned to become the senior HR business partner at Empower Retirement, a new retirement services company combining the retirement resources, expertise, and scale of Great-West Financial, Putnam Investments, and what was formerly known as J.P. Morgan Retirement Plan Services.

Sandra Bailly, MSW, '07 joined the faculty as an associate professor of practice and assistant director, field education at Simmons College. She will have both administrative and advising responsibilities in the field department. Sandra has over 18 years experience as a social worker and administrator in health plans, hospitals and other clinical settings. In addition, Sandra is a 1994 graduate of Simmons School of Social Work.

Viable transportation & affordable housing are keys to higher talent retention. The 2014 team that worked with the Massachusetts Business Roundtable wrote a report that has been recently circulating. Team members are Richard Boyajian of Citizens Bank, Juleen Freitas of BNY Mellon, David Mahoney of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Karen Ng of Santander, and Robert Woods of State Street Corporation. Read the report.

Jessica Desrosiers '14 is now the senior project manager of Population Health Management at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

David Farwell '04, executive vice president of franchise finance at Citizens Bank, was featured in the Boston Business Journal's Executive Profile. Read more.

Jim Hamilton '03 is the founder of The National Spent Fuel Collaborative, a nonprofit organization working to fix the nuclear waste problem. He is seeking assistance from ELP alums to help him work on the program - see "Opportunities" section below.

Laurita Kaigler-Crawlle '09 is now the director for Program Development and Implementation at the Boston Public Health Commission.

Chrystal Kornegay '02, President and CEO of Urban Edge will step down to become chief of the state department of Housing and Community Development.

Ana Patricia Munoz '12, of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, was featured as an Emerging Leader in the Boston Business Journal. Read more.

Benjamin Perkins '05 is now vice president of Multicultural Initiatives/Health Equity at the American Heart Association | American Stroke Association.

Andrew Russell '11 is now director of Corporate Social Responsibility at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Eduado receiving award Eduardo Tobon '03, president at Diners Club International, presented at the 12th annual ALPFA Boston Executive Leadership Summit. At the event, Eduardo was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Read more

Craig Williams '07 has accepted a new job as the COO at Elliot Health System in Manchester, NH. He is in the process of winding down the interim work that he has been doing at the University of Minnesota Medical Center and will begin at Elliot on February 2nd.
Opportunities
David Ford '13 of EMC is a strong advocate for providing workers with a disability-friendly environment. He supports the work of an organization called Springboard Consulting LLC, recognized as the global expert on mainstreaming disability in the corporate workforce, workplace and marketplace. They are hosting an annual conference that you should check out: Ninth Annual Disability Matters NA Conference and Awards, to be held Tuesday - Thursday, April 14-16, 2015 at Simmons College in Boston. Click here for more information, or contact David Ford to learn more.

Jim Hamilton '03 recently checked in to spread the word about The National Spent Fuel Collaborative, of which he is the founder, to solicit support and involvement from the ELP community. The Collaborative is a nonprofit organization working to fix the nuclear waste problem. Presently, the national system is broken, we have spent $48B with little to show and the prognosis is not positive. To remedy this dysfunction, the Collaborative is working with a broad coalition of stakeholders to promote equitable siting strategies and pragmatic policy solutions with leadership coming from outside the beltway. If you would like to learn more or become involved in the work of the Collaborative, please click here to visit their website.

Lisa DeAngelis '03 and director of the center recently met with Joel Schwartz, director of Moving from Debt to Assets, a groundbreaking financial education and empowerment program. The program helps families to build strong financial futures. They are seeking ELP alums who would like to volunteer to be speakers during their support group meetings. Please click here for a list of possible topics. Interested alums should contact Joel Schwartz at 617-953-8487.

New Book
Book Cover

Elizabeth R. Thornton
of Babson College has been a powerful ELP Skill Speaker since 2010. Her session on Objectivity has valuable lessons for emerging leaders. We invite you to check out her new book, The Objective Leader: How to Leverage the Power of Seeing Things As They Are. The book will be released February 10, 1015. Click here for more information.

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Thank you,

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