Tell us, why LTA? Why not LTA? To be honest, LTA seemed like the right next step for me. After an incredible year with an incredible crew of dedicated professionals, it seemed like the best way to continue to grow as a leader and to continue to ...

Name: R. Troy Atlas, Storm Shielder in Chief LT Class Year: 2007 Company Name: Home Safety Solutions Interviewed by: Laura Frost Tell us, why LTA? LTA has always been a great way to maintain relationships with my classmates as well as to ...

Name: Terrie Daniel LT Class Year: 2020 Company Name: Assistant Vice President, USF Office of Supplier Diversity, President/CEO, Cardinal Consulting Group Interviewed by: Laura Frost Tell us why LTA? Leadership Tampa was the most amazing ...

Name: R. Reid Haney LT Class Year: 1996 Company Name: Hill Ward Henderson Interviewed by: Laura Frost Tell us, why LTA? Leadership Tampa is really the “gold standard” in leadership programs and LTA is just the logical extension of ...

Name: Suzy Lopez LT Class Year: 2020 Company Name: Hillsborough County Court Judge, 13th Judicial Circuit Interviewed by: Laura Frost Tell us, why LTA? LTA is the next step in the journey that is the Leadership Tampa experience. It is the ...

Name: Yvette Segura LT Class Year: 2016 Company Name: Vice President/General Manager, USAA (ret.) Tell us, why LTA? My experience with LT was one of the best of my professional career and I have found LTA to be the perfect way to stay connected ...

Name: Ben Robins LT Class Year: LT 2021 Company Name: Tampa International Airport, Vice President of Maintenance Interviewed by: Laura Frost Tell us, why LTA? Upon being assigned to MacDill AFB and moving to Tampa, my family ...

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 ...

#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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

The Vault filled with so many people April 23 the crowd began to spill out on to Franklin Street. Inside the event venue, balloons bounced off ankles, people posed for photos and dance hits filled the air. Folks readily fulfilled Earth, Wind & ...

The red and white striped pinafore dress gave birth to Denise Young's desire to serve oh so many years ago. The first time she walked into Miami's Mercy Hospital as a 14-year-old candy striper, she started developing a heart for helping, and that ...