By: Charlotte McHenry, Senior Connection Center, Inc. “In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” Charles Darwin Leadership Tampa’s ...
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain a child when we grow up.”- Pablo Picasso “I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense ...
On August 10, 2018, the LT ’18 Class hosted a prom with over 160 registrations and raised over $22,000 for the Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa (CDC). The proceeds benefitted the CDC’s Youth Success Center’s high school ...
Today the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce announced the members of the 2019 Leadership Tampa Class. Established by the Chamber in 1970, Leadership Tampa is the third oldest leadership program in the nation and strives to identify, guide and ...
Leadership Tampa, a program of the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce, celebrated the graduation of 46 members of the class of 2018 on May 2, 2018 at Bryan Glazer Family JCC in Tampa, FL. The 2018 class marks the 47th class to graduate from the ...
By Michael Ferrone, CIGNA “Good morning, please pull a card from the bowl and find your Bus Buddy.” Program Day #2 – Law Enforcement Day – kicked off with a new concept, the Bus Buddy. As the LT class pulled a playing card ...
By Maggie Fowler, Peak 10, Inc. Paying attention? – sure. To my own life, to the lives of my family and friends, work, community, politics, and a reality show from time to time. But today paying attention meant to realize that our normal ...
By Tim Ford, Shareholder, Hill Ward Henderson LT 2016 Sports Day can probably be summed up as "how to keep fans in the stands" day. This theme permeated our conversations with Tampa Bay Rays president Brian Auld, Tampa Bay Lighting president Steve ...
Rich Marulanda, Executive Director, Head of Internal and Client Communications, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) Strawberry Fields Forever Often times, many of us go about our busy days waking up early, sitting in traffic, ...
I consider it a genuine privilege to serve as LTA Chair for 2016. As a graduate of the Leadership Tampa Class of 1996, I value and remember with fondness the experiences I had then, and I am energized by my continued involvement with the program. I ...
by Brian Harris, Akerman, LLP On January 13, 2016, the Leadership Tampa Class of 2016 got a firsthand look into the state of heath care in Tampa. We started at Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel with a presentation by Denyse Bales-Chubb, President ...
Tampa, Fla. – John A. Brabson, Jr. received the 2015 Parke Wright, III Award from Leadership Tampa Alumni at the group’s annual meeting on January 28. Established in 2002, the award is presented annually to a member of Leadership Tampa ...
By Clint Shouppe, State Government Relations Manager, BayCare Health System Do I #LoveMyNewspaper? Do you? On December 2nd, 2016, those of us in the Twitterverse were asked that question. It was a social media conversation started here in Florida ...
By Gerri Kramer, Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections Office Do you get so busy sometimes that you forget to play? Stephanie Agliano told our Leadership Tampa class that Arts & Culture Day was our chance to learn what makes Tampa a ...
By: Darcy Calhoun, Tampa Bay Rays Sports Day! It was finally here. It was a day a lot of us in Leadership Tampa were looking forward to and it definitely lived up to the expectations. The morning began with us crossing over the bridge to the Tampa ...
By Laura Crouch, TECO Energy Laura Crouch On December 3, the Ybor City office of ChappellRoberts was buzzing as the Leadership Tampa Class made their way in to collect name tags, bus buddy assignments and a quick coffee as we prepared for another ...
Leadership Tampa Class of 2015 Discovers the HeARTbeat of Tampa By: Kerry O’Reilly, Tampa Bay Times Kerry O’Reilly Our minds were awakened by Renoir and Chagall. Our blood got pumping by the drumming rhythms at Stageworks. Our ...
By: Stephanie Russell Krebs, Ph.D., The University of Tampa Stephanie Russell Krebs, Ph.D. My Leadership Tampa Education Day started like a typical day (just a tad earlier). I got up bright and early and went into my 8-year-old daughter’s ...
By: Jennifer Currence, Mario Camacho Foods Jennifer Currence The Leadership Tampa class of 2015 was fired up (no pun intended) for Law Enforcement Day on October 15. Most of us had already done our ride-alongs with a Tampa PD or HSCO patrol ...
By Jessica Muroff, Frameworks of Tampa Bay One of the reasons why many of us applied for Leadership Tampa was to learn more about how we could best serve our community. It was very fitting that Community Outreach Day was our first official program ...
By Jill Witecki, Tampa Theatre A generation or two ago, Economic Development looked like steam and soot, steel and ships. But today’s economic engine is powered not by sweat equity, but by information and ingenuity. This “New World ...
Brian Cummings Attorney – Greenspoon Marder, P.A. Leadership Tampa Class of 2014 After a hiatus of many years, Social Services Day returned to the line-up of Leadership Tampa’s program days for the Class of 2014, plainly a testament to ...
Leadership Tampa, the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce’s leadership development program, is proud to announce the graduates of the Class of 2013. The graduates were honored at a commencement dinner on Thursday, May 9, 2013. Mark House, ...
Tina Cotton Assistant Vice President, Financial Foundations - USAA Leadership Tampa Class of 2013 Our most recent LT-13 (the best class ever) event was Natural Resources/Transportation Day. Our day chairs were Keith Greminger of Kimley-Horn and ...
Tina Cotton Assistant Vice President, Financial Foundations - USAA Leadership Tampa Class of 2013 Our most recent LT '13 (the best class ever) event was Sports Day! We were encouraged to wear a favorite sports attire, it was great seeing the ...
Jimmy St. Louis Chief Executive Officer, Advanced Healthcare Partners Leadership Tampa Class of 2013 What a great day we all had together on Government Day! To be honest, optimism for an exciting day wasn’t high as we were scheduled to be in ...
Tina Cotton Assistant Vice President, Financial Foundations - USAA Leadership Tampa Class of 2013 Our most recent Leadership Tampa 13 (the best class ever) event was Media Day. I feel like a tape recorder as we continue to think each event is the ...
Fundraising Efforts Provide First-Ever Playground to Tampa Elementary School This year, the Leadership Tampa graduating class of 2012 had a philanthropic goal to help the hundreds of current and future students at the MOSI Partnership School have ...
Tina Cotton We started our day at the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce offices. Our sponsor for the Day was Dr. Ronald Vaughn, President of University of Tampa. Our Day Chair was Bob Abberger, Senior Managing Director, Trammell Crow. The day was ...
Jimmy St. Louis Chief Executive Officer, Advanced Healthcare Partner Leadership Tampa Class of 2013 Tampa, as we all have known, or are learning in our great program, is full of not just great people, but great opportunity. During Education Day, our ...