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IMPORTANT DATES
TO REMEMBER
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Prairie Days
March 23 - 25, 2007
Click here for more details
and a registration form.
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Annual Awards
March 16, 2007
Deadline for Distinguished Member and Statewide Community Nominations submitted to your
Regional Chair
April 13, 2007
Deadline for LeRoy Collins Nominations
Click here to download nomination forms.
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Class XXVI
Application Deadline
April 13, 2007
Click here for a copy
of the application.
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Directory Deadline
April 27, 2007
Click here to update your information online now.
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College Leadership Florida Class IX
Application Deadline
May 25, 2007
Click here for a copy
of the application.
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25th Anniversary
Annual Meeting
June 28 - July 1, 2007
The Breakers, Palm Beach
NO ROOM AT
THE INN...
The Breakers is currently
sold out of rooms for the Annual Meeting. If you
would like to be placed on
a waiting list, or if you need to cancel your existing reservation, please call Neketa Coleman
at 850-521-1234 or
toll free at 877-352-5323
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Annual Meeting Spotlight
Golf Tournament
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Join your fellow Leadership Florida members and friends on Saturday afternoon for the annual golf tournament. This year the tournament is being held at the Breaker's famous Ocean Golf Course.
With fairways that weave between sandy hazards, the Ocean Course rewards wit over power, challenging golfers to play the ball low on 140 acres overlooking the Atlantic.
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First laid out in 1896 by Alexander H. Findley, the Ocean Course was redesigned in 2000 by Brian Silva, Golf World's 1999 Architect of the Year. Combining a love of the game with technology, Silva preserved its unique attributes, while perfecting the course for the 21st century golfer. Silva's redesign addressed tee elevation, tee sizes, surface slopes, pin placement areas, the integration of sand and grass-faced bunkers and included a complex installation of new drainage and irrigation.
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The Ocean Course features: |
18 new putting surfaces 10,000 square foot putting greens 88 bunkers Left-to-right and right-to-left holes Continuous cart paths State of the art TifEagle Bermuda grass from tee to green Six lakes Computerized drainage system Dozens of palm and tropical-flowering trees
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 | | The Rotary Club of Sarasota Bay held its first annual fundraising roast to support Goodwill’s Beneva Oaks, choosing to roast Mike Pender (XI), partner at Cavanaugh & Co. Mike has 31 years of perfect attendance at the club. For 11 years Mike served as LF's Finance Chair, during which he created Lifetime Memberships and contributed in 100 other ways!
Three of the five roasters were LF members: Cliff |
| Walters (XII), Larry Thompson (XIX) and Debra Jacobs (X). |
State Representative Loranne Ausley (XX), a champion for children's issues in the Tallahassee community, received the Girls and Boys Town of North Florida Spirit of Youth Award last week during a gala at Florida State University's University Center Club.
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| Ron Sachs Communications, a Tallahassee-based integrated communications firm owned by Leadership Florida's Immediate Past Chair Ron Sachs (X), received one gold and two silver ADDY Awards for advertising excellence in the 2007 competition. The gold ADDY was awarded for the 2006 Leadership Florida annual meeting registration form and |  |
passport that was designed by assistant art director, Rosemary Oldendorf. Ron Sachs Communications was also recently honored by O'Dwyer's magazine, who ranked the firm first in Florida, 66th in the nation and among the nation's top 10 independent public-relations firms for revenue growth.
Two other Leadership Florida run firms were recognized by O'Dwyer's magazine as well. The Tallahassee based firm, Moore Consulting, led by President Karen Moore (XIV), received an honorable mention in Florida and ranked 77th in the nation. And in Miami, Wragg and Casas Public Relations, Inc. headed by Ramon Casas (XII) and Otis Wragg (II) ranked 73rd in the nation.
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College Leadership Florida Class VIII Classmates Zephyr Wilkins and Julie Zimmerman recently received The Order of Pegasus award. It recognizes exemplary performance by University of Central Florida undergraduate students in the areas of academic achievement, outstanding university involvement, leadership, and community service. Because of the breadth of accomplishments required for this award, the Order of Pegasus is the most prestigious and significant student award that can be attained at the university. In order to be considered for the award, one has to be nominated either by their college or executive-level university administrators.
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| Richard Levey (XIV), who served as Orlando's chief administrative officer from 1999 to 2005, joins Lake Nona Property Holdings, LLC to oversee master planning and community design and management. He will also oversee economic-development activities including recruitment of health-care, biotech and medical-education companies. |  |
CFO Alex Sink (IV) has drawn on the expertise and talents of Leadership Florida members to staff her office. Jim Cassady (XVI) is the chief of staff, Kathy Baughman -McLeod (XXV) is deputy chief of staff, Dr. Karen Stanford (XV) is the research and planning administrator and Tara Klimek (College Leadership Florida IV) is communications director. "I'm pleased to welcome experienced and talented professionals to my administration," said Alex. "Their history of public service, commitment to accountability and leadership skills will be an asset to the Department of Financial Services and the people of Florida."
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 | | After more than 33 years in higher education in Florida, Linda Gray (IX) retired last month. She directed media relations efforts at the University of Central Florida for the last five years. Prior to that, she was at the University of Florida for more than 28 years where she directed media relations efforts for 16 of those years. She retired to St. Augustine |
Beach and will do part-time consulting in media relations. She received national attention for her handling of University of Florida's media crisis following the murder of five students in Gainesville in 1990.
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Leadership Florida In the News
Florida Trend Publisher Lynda Keever (XI) chose to
focus on Leadership Florida in her "Corner Office"
column in the magazine's March issue
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Leadership Florida: Building Community for 25 Years
In 1992, my second year as Florida Trend publisher, I was offered a great opportunity to take part in Leadership Florida, a program that brings together leaders from all over the state to learn about issues that are shared by Florida's diverse communities.
One of the reasons I was excited about the program is that Leadership Florida's goals are very much in line with one of our goals here at Florida Trend: Helping develop a sense of statewide community.
Even though I'm a native Floridian and thought I knew a lot about my home state, Leadership Florida training showed me that I really had a lot to learn. I had met some of my classmates before, but I got to really know them through team-building activities that included helping to rebuild houses in Homestead after Hurricane Andrew. It seemed like all of us came home from our meetings with stories for our co-workers, friends and spouses about things we'd learned, our ideas and beliefs that had been both challenged and reinforced and a new way of seeing Florida and Floridians -- and how we all fit together. Frank Ryll, president of the Florida Chamber of Commerce, was instrumental in starting Leadership Florida back in 1982 and modeled it on successful programs that he'd seen in Atlanta and South Carolina. This year, Leadership Florida celebrates its 25th anniversary, and from my personal experience as a member of Class XI, as a board member for two terms and as a mentor in the College Leadership Florida program, the program has been a great benefit to its participants and to the state as a whole. Leadership Florida opened the door for me to serve on the Florida Chamber of Commerce board, and one of my classmates, Clarence Anthony, mayor of South Bay, went on to be president of the Florida League of Cities and later the National League of Cities. The heart of Leadership Florida is its annual class program, with 55 men and women selected to participate. They meet over five weekends in an eight-month period, each time in a different part of the state, to learn about the issues that make Florida Florida. Jeff Bartel (XIII), vice president of corporate and external affairs for FP&L and chairman of Leadership Florida, points out that the experience of Leadership Florida doesn't stop once the annual class program ends. "It is a lifelong learning and leadership process that ultimately brings diverse leaders from all walks of life, from all demographics, geographies and interests to look to themselves as trustees of the future of Florida and its leadership paradigm," Bartel says. The 1,200-plus graduates of Leadership Florida are a diverse group: Chief executive officers of our state's top corporations, members of the Florida Cabinet, leading educators, farmers, non-profit executives, small-business owners, mayors and community volunteers. Some are journalists, including editors and publishers of many of our state's newspapers. Andy Corty, the president of Florida Trend, was a member of the first Leadership Florida class; Florida Trend Editor Mark Howard was in Class XVII. If your company or organization is not already involved in Leadership Florida, I encourage you to think about nominating a candidate for the next class. Another option is to get your company involved as a sponsor. Either way, the rewards will be tremendous.
Click here to view this article and more on the Florida Trend website.
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