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CONNECT FLORIDA
Exactly one week before the national YP Summit in Louisville, Connect Florida is excited to bring Florida's young professionals the information first!
National speaker Molly Foley will present Smart Start: A Guide to Starting & Growing Your Young Professional Group and give attendees a sneak peak at the 2007 YP Global Survey results. The conference will also feature a keynote address by Lynda Keever, publisher of the Florida Trend and Leadership Florida Class XI member.
Smart Start:
Starting & Growing YPGs!
Smart Start for Young Professionals Organizations (YPO) offers a clean and clear model for understanding and practicing good organizational development. Smart Start is especially useful for those YPO’s who are seeking to make a real difference in their community and want to maximize the greatest YP and community benefit through their existence.
2007 Global Impact Survey
The YP Global Impact Survey, is a 40-question survey that takes your city's and YPO's pulse, measures your members' community impact and combines it with the world's 20-40 year olds.
- Does your community have what it takes to attract and engage the next generation?
- How do you stack up in the seven indexes that matter to young professionals?
- How do you compare to your competition? (Which is every other city in the world!)
Next Generation Consulting surveyed over 20,000 young professionals since 1998 and developed a unique handprinting solution around the seven indexes that helps a community see itself as the next generation sees it. Once you understand how young talent perceives your community, you can make the enhancements required to engage and keep them.
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Click here for more details on Connect Florida's Annual Meeting!
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The Florida Chamber Foundation’s Innovation Summit, “Imagining an Innovative Economy,” is scheduled for Friday, September 7th, at the Hyatt Orlando Airport.
Here are 3 things you should know about the event:
1) This is technically an invite-only event, but the Foundation's goal is to make sure key leaders from around the state are in the room. If you know of someone that should be participating but is not on the list (click here), send additional names to sjarrett@flchamber.com or tcarvajal@flchamber.com 2) An agenda for the event is available online at www.innovativeflorida.com. In short, the event will feature the IBM report on Florida’s position in innovative economy, comments from life science leaders, education leaders, economic development professionals and nonprofit leaders and a keynote address from Governor Crist (invited). Legislators and business leaders in the audience will participate through interactive technology and Q&A sessions. 3) Event sponsors include: AT&T, Enterprise Florida, Florida High Tech Corridor Council, Florida LambdaRail, Florida Research Consortium, Florida Trend, IBM, Wachovia, and Workforce Florida.
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| Irela Bagué (XXV), president of the Bagué Group in Coral Gables, was recently honored by the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce with the Rising Star Award. The Rising Star Award was established to honor young professionals and entrepreneurs under 40 that have demonstrated excellence in their business or profession and that have contributed significantly to the community. Irela was chosen from a list of five other finalists for her strong dedication to public service in her community. |  |
Drew Prusiecki (XXIV), general counsel for Jacksonville-based
Acosta Sales and Marketing Company, has been elected chairman of the board of directors of the Northeast Florida Chapter of the American Red Cross a for a third term. He previously served as board chairman-elect and as a member of the chapter's Public Support Committee, which supports local fundraising and public relations activities.
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 | | Jim Lewis (XXI), president of Disney Vacation Club in Orlando, was recently chosen by Black MBA Magazine as one of its "50 Under 50 Corporate Executives on the Move." The Top 50 Under 50 Executives were selected based on their position within a publicly or privately traded company, the size of the budget they manage, their community service work, and the MBA degree they hold.
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Governor Crist appointed the Florida Governor’s Action Team on Energy and Climate Change. The team will consist of 21 members appointed by the Governor and is charged with developing Florida’s Energy and Climate Change Action Plan. Several Leadership Florida members were appointed to the committee: Lisa Edgar (XXIV), chair of the Florida Public Service Commission in Tallahassee, Charles Pattison (XVIII), executive director of 1000 Friends of Florida in Tallahassee, and Mark Kaplan (XXII), vice president of planning and governmental affairs at Mosaic Fertilizer, LLC in Tallahassee.
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Sean Pittman (XXI) receiving the Small Business of the Year award
from Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce Chairman Randy Hanna (XI)
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| The Pittman Law Group, founded by Sean Pittman (XXI), attorney and managing partner of the Tallahassee based firm, was selected as Small Business of the Year by the Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce. |
The Sarasota Chamber of Commerce recently honored Jay Lockaby (XXIV), executive director of the Wellness Community of Southwest Florida in Sarasota, as the 2007 Young Professional of the Year. Jay was selected from three finalists and was honored at the Chamber's Small Business Awards luncheon.
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Leerie Jenkins (X), chairman and CEO of Reynolds, Smith and Hills, Inc., has been recognized as one of Northeast Florida's "Ultimate CEOs" by American City Business Journals, Inc. Leerie was awarded the honor for his leadership in growing the firm nationally, as well as for his prolific civic contributions throughout the state.
Former American University swimmer Charlie Lydecker (XIII), executive vice president of |  |
| Brown & Brown, Inc. in Daytona, won the swim only portion of the AlcaTRI XXVII™ - 27th annual "Escape from the Rock" triathlon. Charlie outraced his closest competitor by 9.1 seconds in the 1.5 mile race. The next closest competitor was more than 3:30 behind. This is the third time he has competed in the race, which challenges competitors with freezing water, shifting currents and the threat of sharks. This year, the water, which reaches 1,400 feet deep, measured 57 degrees on race day. |
For the third year in a row Leadership Florida's Gulfstream Region held a bioscience-related spring evening program. Mike Jones (XXII), Gulfstream Regional Council Chair, welcomed the audience to a stimulating panel discussion entitled "Floridians' Decisions: Genetics, Pandemics and Bioethics, A Discussion, in Two Acts" at Florida Atlantic University's Jupiter Campus.
Dr. Robin Fiore (XXIV), Adelaide R. Snyder Professor of Ethics at FAU, moderated a lively and informative roundtable discussion among Mort Laitner, chief legal counsel, Florida Department of Health, Dr. Kenneth Goodman, Director of the University of Miami Ethics Programs, Gina Melby, CEO of the JFK Medical Center, and Dr. Jonathan Gavras, vice president for medical operations of Blue Cross Blue Shield Florida. In Act One - "Welcome to the Revolution!" - this expert panel of representatives from business, legal, government, and bioethics fields explored how to strike a balance between the promise and the pitfalls of biomedical applications of genetic technologies.
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Gulfstream Planning Team:
(front) Samie Ferraro (XXII), Robin Fiore (XXIV) and Kristen Murtaugh (XXIII)
(back) Rosalind Neilen (XX), Barbara Allan (X) and Rhys Williams (XXII) |
In Act Two - "In Case of Pandemic, Who Ya Gonna Call?" - they discussed the development of plans in case of pandemic disease and the hard choices to be made such as rationing and triage. A Q&A period enabled the audience to further probe the panelists on related issues. Following the panel discussion attendees networked at a reception.
As in past years the event was generously sponsored by a number of businesses and organizations: JFK Medical Center, FAU Center for Urban & Environmental Solutions, Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center, Toyota of Stuart, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Tequesta BioVentures, Stuart/Martin County Chamber of Commerce, College Connection, Inc., Jupiter Medical Center, and FAU Adelaide R. Snyder Professorship in Ethics.
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