Leadership
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Leadership St. Paul (LSP) is the premier program in the Twin Cities for emerging and current civic and business leaders that prepares, challenges and engages emerging and existing leaders to strengthen the St. Paul/East Metro region.
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Program OverviewLeadership Saint Paul supports a vital, positive community, with engaged and well-informed leaders. Each year, LSP selects up to 50 emerging and existing leaders from private, public, and nonprofit sectors of the community to participate in the ten-month program.
LSP curriculum is designed to raise awareness of the needs and challenges that affect the Saint Paul/East metro region and enhance individual leadership skills with a focus on community stewardship. The program offers participants exceptional “insider” access by bringing in top-level business, civic, and government leaders to facilitate productive conversations around critical issues that influence our region. |
Curriculum ElementsMonthly Program Days: Day-long sessions, focusing on significant challenges facing the region such as community effectiveness, education, health care, regional economic development, and criminal justice.
Each program day strives to enlighten, inspire and transform participants by exposing them to a vast array of perspectives, resources and mentors. Program Days are always the second Thursday of the month. Community Projects: Each participant will form a team with 4 to 6 classmates and partner on a community service project to apply what they are learning and gain experiential knowledge in community stewardship. Recent projects include: starting a local farmers market to drive traffic around area businesses, creating a video highlighting a nonprofit’s clients for use on their website and in funding requests, and organizing a color guard event for the St. Paul Winter Carnival’s 100th Anniversary. |
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Naomi Alemsged, M Health Fairview
Dionne Alkamooneh, City of St. Paul - Planning & Economic Development Bruce Baillargeon, McGough Andrew Barkley, Wells Fargo Jenae Batt, Ever-Green Energy Ornela Beslagic-Bjerke, Regions Hospital Lydia Burr, Hazelden Betty Ford Jinah Chernivec, Goodwill Easter Seals Connie Fricke, Land O’Lakes Amanda Friedrich, Visit Saint Paul Mara Gottfried, St. Paul Pioneer Press Justin Hach, MPR Jill Haspert, Foxtrot Marketing Niki Hill, City of Shoreview - Economic Development Manuela Hill-Munoz, University of St. Thomas Claudia Klinkhammer, City of St. Paul - Planning & Economic Development KaTina Cummings, Catholic Charities Mike Marcotte, 5 Eyewitness News/Hubbard Broadcasting |
Katie McDonnell, Mahoney
Angela Mork, Harris Companies Nate Nins, Granicus Katie Nyberg, Mississippi Park Connection Amy Parker, HealthPartners Brianna Peterson, Bremer Bank Chris Peterson, Ever-Green Energy Kotchi Prosper, Affinity Plus Elvis Rivera, Morgan Stanley Jennifer Rohde, Saint Paul College Nick Schauer, Xcel Energy Tyler Schultz, PCL Construction Trent Senske, Mahoney Brittany Simonson, BWBR Maria Steffel, Washburn Center for Children Andrea Stoesz, Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare Kyle Wilson, Securian Denise Wright, Royal Credit Union |
Leadership Saint Paul has been one of the most impactful professional development programs I have experienced in my career. Benefiting from the outstanding reputation of the St. Paul Area Chamber; Leadership Saint Paul offered incredible access to political, business, non-profit and thought leaders in our community who shared their ideas and insights about St. Paul and the East metro. Equally impactful to the knowledge I gained from the presentations, were the relationships I made with the fifty energized and talented professionals that made up the LSP class of 2012. Through the learning, challenging, debating, and collaborating that LSP demands of its participants; I emerged with a professional network and friends that I will have for years to come." |