By Allison Eckstein, senior account director
Once a year, Lacy Leadership Association offers a course called Leadership Education and Development (LEAD), and this year I had the opportunity to attend. The class meets for six weeks on Fridays and includes other supervisors, managers and business owners who are interested in becoming more effective leaders. LEAD was an amazing experience for many reasons.
By Allison Eckstein, senior account director, and Shannon Zajicek, art director
When given the chance to attend Lacy Leadership Association’s Opportunity Indianapolis, we have to admit, we thought it would be a couple days spent on a bus traveling around the city learning the height and year of construction for every building and monument. We were wrong. The opportunity for us native Hoosiers, was not to learn more trivia about our great city (though we did take in our fair share of fun facts as we traveled by bus across Indianapolis). It was to expose us to the deep potential found within Indianapolis and the efforts of civic and business leaders helping to unlock that potential and define the future of the city. (more…)
By Katherine Coble, vice president
Last Saturday I attended the United Way Diversity Volunteer Recognition breakfast at the invitation of one of my fellow Stanley K. Lacy Executive Leadership (SKL) Series classmates, Sonia Chen. I was excited to go because I’d recently taken over our firm’s diversity initiative, and I thought this would be a great opportunity to connect with others and see what was going on in the community.
By Mandy S. Dorn, account manager
I recently enjoyed two milestones pertaining to my time living in Indianapolis—my fifth year living here and a two-day invitation to explore the city and meet its present and future leaders through a program called Opportunity Indianapolis (OI), coordinated by the Lacy Leadership Association. Those milestones seemed a bit contradictory at their surface, but OI actually debunked a few myths that may come to mind as you get more comfortable with your surroundings. (more…)
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