Our Leadership Institute is integrally linked to the Division’s Corporate Solutions. Whereas Corporate Solutions addresses the needs of the organization through the use of a variety of services, the Leadership Institute addresses the needs of developing leaders.
Building Legacies:
Women Who Lead, Serve, and Inspire
The Building Legacies Women's Leadership Summit was created to celebrate women that are making a substantive impact in our community. This year, based on the overwhelming feedback from past participants, a decision was made to turn the single day event into a series providing four unique half-day leadership sessions.
This year's inaugural series is entitled Women Who Lead, Serve, and Inspire. Each session developed for this series captures the sheer essence of the key role that women play in shaping organizations, communities, and the next generation of amazing leaders.
Sponsors for the 2017 series include Club 25, Jim Moran Institute, Jim Moran School of Entrepreneurship, Merrill Lynch, Prime Meridian Bank, and Thurman Law Firm.
Session Information
Series Kickoff (3/1/2017)
This session will highlight women whose life journeys demonstrate the bold steps they have taken to lead, serve, and inspire. Their stores filled with passion and determination will not only spark conversation, but more importantly create a call to action of building legacies one woman at a time.
Date: March 1, 2017
Location: TCC Center for Innovation, 350 South Duval Street
Time: 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Keynote Speaker:
The Honorable Gwen Graham, Former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Panel Presenters:
Sally Bradshaw, Midtown Reader
Susan Fiorito, Jim Moran School of Entrepreneurship
Lila Jaber, Gunster Oakey
Dr. Alma Littles, Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare Board of Directors
Women Who Lead (6/7/2017)
This session will focus on women leaders who possess a track record of success that has profoundly impacted our community. The audience will be challenged to identify an area where they would like to make their mark.
Date: June 7, 2017
Location: TCC Center for Innovation, 350 South Duval Street
Time: 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Keynote Speaker:
Heidi Otway, SalterMitchell, Inc.
Panel Presenters:
Monesia Brown, Walmart
Doris Maloy, Leon County Tax Collector
Grace Robinson, Gadsden Art Center & Museum
Women Who Serve (9/6/2017)
This session will focus on women who serve by giving back through their time, talent and/or treasures. Attendees will hear firsthand why service matters and how our speakers have incorporated it into their lives in such a powerful way.
Date: September 6, 2017
Location: TCC Center for Innovation, 350 South Duval Street
Time: 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Keynote Speaker:
Pamella Butler, Aegis Business Technologies
Panel Presenters:
Tracey Cohen, Target Print & Mail
Berneice Cox, The Bacall Group
Commissioner Kristin Dozier, Leon County Board of County Commissioners
Women Who Inspire (12/6/2017)
This session will highlight leaders in our community whose body of work has touched and inspired others. The unique experiences shared by the speakers will without a doubt inspire us all to do more and give more. Additionally, this session will serve as the 2017 series capstone celebrating the strides that have been made by local women in the areas of leadership, service, and inspiration.
Date: December 6, 2017
Location: TCC Center for Innovation, 350 South Duval Street
Time: 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Keynote Speaker:
Chancellor Madeline Pumariega, Florida Department of Education's Division of Florida Colleges
Panelists:
Whitney Harris, Florida Chamber Foundation
Audra Pittman, Council On Culture & Arts
Paula DeBoles-Johnson, Capital City Youth Development Corporation
Registration Information
Pre-registration is required. Limited seating. $30 per session, or $75 for remaining three-part series. To register visit: Building Legacies Registration.
Lessons Over Lunch
This Leadership Institute program is a quarterly series offered mid-day to allow participants an opportunity for professional development training over their lunch break.
The session will be facilitated with group discussion and presentation of various leadership topics, many of which were suggested by previous program participants as areas of interest for success in business today. Our facilitators have diverse leadership backgrounds from a variety of fields including education, business, and government.
Session Information
Making Creativity Part of Your Business DNA (6/7/2017)
Having the best services or products is simply not enough these days. You must also be able to garner attention for your business in a world with hundreds of online, print, TV and social media messages. This interactive session will focus on ways to expand your creativity to not only create buzz for your business but to also help establish strong, positive relationships that keep customers coming back. It will also highlight ways to build creativity in your own team that makes work rewarding.
Date: June 7, 2017
Time: 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM
Location: Center for Innovation
300 West Pensacola Street
Tallahassee, FL 32303
Cost: $10.00
Registration: To register for this session, please visit: Lessons June Registration. Registration is required at least one day prior to the event to ensure adequate materials and supplies.
Facilitator: M. Michelle Bono
During her 19 years leading the City of Tallahassee's communication efforts, Michelle Bono was renowned for creative ideas including a flash mob on Gaines Street, "Survivor Kits" to residents dealing with the construction of Blair Stone Road, and even a wake for a dying Live Oak tree in front of city hall. Today, she brings that same passion for creative and measurable results to her own business, providing training, marketing, and project management services to businesses and non-profits alike. She understands customers, relationships, and media and believes creativity is not only fun but can impact your bottom line.
Leadership Conversations
Leadership Conversations
The newest offering in our Leadership Institute programming, this event will focus on leadership conversations with local, state and nationally recognized figures whose leadership qualities have set them apart. During the event you will hear first-hand the challenges and triumphs that they've faced over the course of their careers.
Using a three sector connector approach, the speakers will represent the following areas: for-profit, non-profit, and public. In addition to the leader talks, each of the speakers will engage in a one-on-one conversation with TCC President Jim Murdaugh regarding key traits that successful leaders embody. Guests will have the opportunity to contribute to the conversation while gathering key take-aways to advance their own leadership development.
Date: June 9, 2017
Time: 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: TCC Center for Innovation, 300 West Pensacola Street
Cost: $40.00
Registration: Pre-registration required. Price includes breakfast and parking in the Kleman Plaza garage. To register visit: Leadership Conversation Registration.
Featured Leaders
Dominic Calabro
President & CEO of Florida TaxWatch
Under Dominic Calabro's leadership, Florida TaxWatch has earned and maintained the respect of the state's most highly regarded and influential leaders, and has earned the credibility and respect of the citizens of Florida as well as the state and national media. In addition to serving as the President and CEO of Florida TaxWatch, he also serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Prudential Productivity Awards, which recognizes, awards, and works to replicate outstanding government productivity and innovative cost-saving achievements throughout Florida government worth more than $9 billion to date. Before joining TaxWatch in early 1980, Calabro served as a graduate budget analyst with the Florida Senate Ways and Means Committee (later split into Appropriations and Finance and Taxation).
Calabro is an "almost native" Floridian, having moved to South Florida from New York at the age of eleven. After attending Catholic school, including four years at Catholic Seminary, he graduated with high honors from Broward Community College, later receiving his Bachelor's degree with highest honors from Florida International University. He also holds a Master's degree from The Florida State University and will soon receive a second Master's degree in public finance and budgeting.
In addition to many business and civic honors, Calabro was named by the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce as one of the nation's Ten Outstanding Young Americans in 1994, and in 2006 Calabro was named the "Executive of the Year" by the Florida Society of Association Executives (FSAE), its highest honor. He was recognized by Florida Trend magazine as a "Must-Know Floridian" in 2013.
Frederick Humphries, Ph.D.
Former President of Florida A&M University
A renowned scholar, admired public servant and eighth president of Florida A&M University (FAMU), Frederick Humphries created the Life Gets Better and Graduate School Feeder Programs (GSFB). During his nearly 17-year tenure at FAMU he more than doubled enrollment while simultaneously raising academic standards. He increased the number of National Achievement Scholars at the school ranking first in the nation three times, out recruiting Harvard and Stanford, and made FAMU the nation’s number one producer of African Americans with baccalaureate degrees and third in the nation as the baccalaureate institution of origin for African-American doctoral degree recipients. His crowning achievement came when FAMU was selected as the first ever TIME Magazine/Princeton Review “College of the Year” in 1997.
Humphries has served as Chairman and Board of Directors of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges; member of the Board of Trustees for the University of Pittsburgh and member of former President Bill Clinton’s White House Advisory Committee on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Corporate America has also sought his expertise as a member of the Board of Directors of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.; Brinker International; Barnett Bank (Bank of America), Florida; the National Merit Corporation; the Princeton Review, Academy for Educational Development (AED) and as founder and board member for the Thurgood Marshall Fund. Additionally, he has received numerous awards including Floridian of the Year, the Thurgood Marshall Award for Higher Education, the University of Pittsburg Centennial Medallion of Honor, and the FAMU Centennial Medallion for Outstanding Achievement.
He holds a B.S. degree in chemistry from FAMU (magna cum laude) and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh, where he was the first African American to obtain a Ph.D. in the discipline.
Wendy Walker
President Emeritus of Leadership Florida
During Wendy Walker's 28 year presidency, Leadership Florida grew from producing an annual class program to providing programs for the state's top college students, young professionals, locally elected officials from cities, counties, and school boards, new executives in Florida, graduates of community leadership programs, educators and members of the Florida Legislature. Leadership Florida is also well known for producing televised debates between candidates running for Governor, the U.S. Senate, and President of the United States, and for its anti-discrimination campaign, the Faces of Florida.
Walker has served as president of the Economic Club of Florida, and currently serves on the boards of the Florida College System Foundation and the Tallahassee Village Square. She graduated from The Florida State University, where she was a member of Alpha Lambda Delta, Mortar Board, Garnet Key, and Gold Key scholastic and leadership honoraries, and since then was selected for membership in ODK. In 2001 she completed the leadership development program at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
She is most proud of her two daughters, Beth and Julia, son-in-law Jaime, and grandson Luke.