Name: LaKisha M. Kinsey-Sallis LT Class Year: 2018 Company Name: Fisher & Phillips LLP Interviewed by: Laura Frost Tell us, why LTA? LTA has been a rewarding opportunity to continue the Leadership Tampa journey I started on in 2018. Through ...

Name: Cynthia Gandee Zinober LT Class Year: 2001 Company Name: Henry Plant Museum Interviewed by: Laura Frost and Melody Mars Tell us, why LTA? I wanted to learn more about both Tampa’s businesses and cultural organizations, as well as ...

Hillsborough County’s Veteran’s Treatment Court – Never Forgetting Those Who Served “The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how ...

#LTAFAMOUS Name: Debbi Stone LT Class Year: 2009 Company Name: The Florida Aquarium Tell us, why LTA? The immersive Leadership Tampa experience is so impactful, that I wanted to keep the experiences and connections going. Over the years, ...

Written by Kristy Tozer LT’18 We are so fortunate to call Champa Bay home! While the rest of the world wonders how our market became lucky enough to have so many Championship teams, we in LTA know that our fellow sports leaders have always ...

Name: Stephanie Russell Krebs LT Class Year: 2015 Company Name: University of Tampa Interviewed by: Laura Frost & Melody Marrs Tell us, why LTA? Making friends as a child in elementary school or even as a college student is easy. Then you ...

Name: Scott Swenson Title: Owner/Creative Director LT Class Year: 2011 Company Name: Scott Swenson Creative Development LLC Tell us, why LTA? My life has progressed so much since my Leadership Tampa experience in 2011. At that time I was on the ...

Twenty years ago this month, our world changed forever. Many in our country reflect where they were on September 11th, and for the millennial generation it served as their first “Where were you when…” moment. Yet September 11th ...

Leaders Ready to Fuel a Post-Pandemic Education Ecosystem The transformational power of education not only uplifts individuals, it uplifts entire communities. Yet, as public schools innovated to meet the needs of students and families during the ...

Jill Witecki Director of Marketing & Community Relations, Tampa Theatre LT'14 Tell us, why LTA? As a PR and Marketing professional, I know that the No. 1 best promotion you can ever hope for is positive word-of-mouth. So it’s ...

Name: Rachel Feinman LT Class Year: 2018 Company: VP of Innovation, TGH InnoVentures at Tampa General Hospital Tell us, why LTA? I love the opportunity to spend time with my LT classmates and bond with folks from other classes. It also allows ...

Impacts of the Pandemic on the hospitality industry By Kristy Tozer and Jeff Chernoff We’ve heard the recent stories about hospitality industry’s disproportionate challenges throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. We spoke to three leaders in ...

Let’s begin by saying that these three Leaders are worthy of their own dedicated piece. It was a fool’s errand to think that their accomplishments and approaches to Leadership Tampa and Collegiate Leadership Tampa could be properly ...

Steve Hayes, President & CEO LT Class Year: 2000 Visit St. Pete/Clearwater 1. Tell us, why LTA? Paul Catoe (LT 92) was my boss and he felt that it would be beneficial for me to get more involved in the community. He highly recommended the ...

This past year has been challenging for many of us. Whether our experience was thriving or surviving, it was a year of universal change. We are in a state of global grief, losing loved ones and friends, dealing with the physical affects of the ...

Todd O’Donnell, LT Class of 2016 Tell us, why LTA? My employer, Wharton-Smith, encouraged me to find a leadership program in Tampa that provides a similar program to Leadership Seminole in Orlando. After researching and attending the initial ...

MAGIC BEANS – DEBBIE AND MICHAEL LUNDBERG GIVE THE GIFT OF LIFE Written by: Kari Goetz LT’18, United Way Suncoast Before I go any further, I have a disclaimer: I’ve had a front row seat to this story, and by front row, I mean a ...

Tell us, why LTA? I was involved in many organizations prior to going through LT but I felt something was missing. The others were for very specific purposes such as All Children’s Hospital Foundation, American Institute of Architects, Ronald ...

Name: Christopher “Pappy” Collins, Lieutenant Colonel (Ret), USAF LT Class Year: 2019 (eLiTe ’19) Company Name: US Air Force; MacDill AFB 1. Tell us, why LTA? As military, I’ve spent 30 years moving from place to place ...

Ron Christaldi, 2020 Parke Wright III Award Recipient You've been involved in the Chamber for quite a while now, can you remember your first Chamber meeting? My first Chamber meeting was in joining the Water Policy task force in the late 1990s. I ...

Name: Marc Eichenholtz, P.G. President, Principal Geologist LT Class Year: 2005 Company Name: MAS Environmental LLC Tell us, why LTA? When I graduated, I had met so many great people in LT and wanted to maintain those ...

If you live in Tampa you have likely heard the name of Jose Gaspar. Each winter the “Gasparilla Season” kicks off. There’s the children’s parade, Invasion, Knight parade, a music festival, a movie festival, and a distance ...

Tampa, Fla. – Ronald Christaldi, President/CEO at Shumaker Advisors Florida, LLC, received the 2020 Parke Wright III Award from Leadership Tampa Alumni at the group’s 2020 Annual Meeting on January 28th. Established in 2002, the award is ...

Name: Christine Turner LT Class Year: 2007 LTA (Chair 2017) Company Name: Chappell Roberts Tell us, why LTA? Leadership Tampa Alumni is the single best place to expand business relationships outside of your own work, clients and colleagues. Those ...

If you have graduated from Leadership Tampa within the last sixteen years, chances are you know Kari Goetz. Either as a classmate (LT ’18, Gr8teen), or as the person who led the name game ice breaker at the Leadership Tampa Retreat each year ...

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Tampa, Fla. – Leadership Tampa Alumni (LTA), a program of the Tampa Bay Chamber, raised over $4,000 for the students at Memorial Middle School in Tampa. The Leadership Tampa Alumni group is an alumni program for the Leadership Tampa 9-month ...

Greetings! My name is Lance Lansrud, Broker and Owner of Agentry Real Estate. Tampa is home; I grew up in South Tampa, returned a few years after graduating from college, and have been here since. About 17 years ago I left my career in commercial ...

The two panelists for the COVID-19: From Surviving to Thriving Webinar are Dr. Shea Quraishi and Dr. Rick Weinberg. Dr. Shea Quraishi is Chief Academic Officer at Frameworks of Tampa Bay, a nonprofit organization that empowers educators, youth ...

Troy Manthey – President and CEO, Yacht StarShip Cruises & Events Troy Manthey took the helm of the 180-foot, $8-million luxury dining vessel, Yacht Starship, shortly after its construction in 2000 in Biloxi, Mississippi. Manthey ...