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LEAD Night Out
Thursday, November 20, 2008
5:30 - 7:30pm
Il Fornaio Wine Bar
1555 Camino Del Mar
Del Mar, CA 92014
RSVP: BABall80@cox.net
Graduate Member Celebration
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
5:30-7:30 pm
Hilton San Diego Bayfront
Information on the 2008 LEAD Member Celebration
White House Fellows - Aplications Open
Invitation to Informational Seminar
You are cordially invited to attend a special information session on The White House Fellows Program on Monday, December 1, 2008
Learn more
LEAD Alumni Community Service Project
San Diego River Mouth
January 24, 2009
9:00 - 12 pm
Learn More
2009 Visionary Awards
Thursday, May 21, 2009
San Diego Marriott and Marina
Information on The 2009 Visionary Awards
LEAD San Diego, along with partners Sempra Energy and Volunteer San Diego, works to identify and honor ordinary people who are doing extraordinary things to improve the quality of life in the San Diego region.
Nominate a candidate for a The 10 Leadership Award.
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News From Around the Region - Keeping Leaders Informed on Issues and Activities |
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San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce hosts a Fireside Chat with Mayor Jerry Sanders.
Learn more...
San Diego Regional EDC led a business delegation to Orlando in October to learn first-hand about best practices in the region, as well as how Florida is leveraging state and local incentives in an aggressive business attraction
strategy.
Learn more...
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LEAD Membership |
LEAD San Diego Graduate Members- Have you renewed your membership? Membership provides ongoing support for LEAD San Diego's high quality, cutting-edge curriculum, program development, and member-exclusive programming. It also
significantly helps to sustain a LEAD network that reaches nearly 1,700 individuals who are leading this community into a prosperous future.
Renew or Activate Your LEAD Graduate Membership
LEAD San Diego Community Members are leaders who are invested in regional success. They are a group of individuals who believe in developing the next generation of diverse and engaged leaders. Many have widely recognized leadership
experience in the region and are striving to make a difference through their vision, service, determination and creativity. Please consider becoming a LEAD community member.
Become a LEAD Community Member
Are you a LEAD Graduate with good news to share? Send your kudos to
Connections Editor
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A Celebration - The 2008 Annual Member Celebration!
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 Tuesday, December 9th is an important day for LEAD Members. We will gather with old friends – and make new ones – at the new Hilton San Diego
Bayfront Hotel.
The 2008 Member Celebration will take place at the newest waterfront hotel on the West Coast. The Hilton towers 30-stories above the edge of San Diego Bay, offering a spectacular view of the city as well as an immersion into the
essence of San Diego's unique coastal culture and lifestyle.
This event is a special thank you to the ever-growing number of LEAD Members. Today, the ranks of our alumni have swelled to over 1,700 leaders and many remain very active in the organization.
We hope you will join our members, the LEAD Board of Directors and the Alumni Association, as well as founders, past board chairs and the Leadership Trust. Already, over 150 active LEAD members have registered and look forward to a
complimentary cocktail, hors d'oeuvres and networking from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Be among the first guests to experience the new hotel and we'll take time to celebrate your many contributions to leadership in the San Diego community.
LEAD 's Annual Member Celebration
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
5:30-7:30 pm
Hilton San Diego Bayfront
1 Park Boulevard
San Diego, CA 92101
2008 Graduate Member Celebration Committee: Beverly Dean (96), Victoria Garrison ('99), Randy Jones ('91), Ed Kitrosser (‘88), Eva Stimson ('99) and Wendy Wilson
('03).
Register for the LEAD Member Celebration
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Sempra Energy hosts Leadership 101 Seminar Day
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LEAD GRADUATE STAYS INVOLVED, SHARES HER STORY AND PAYS IT FORWARD
By Molly Cartmill, LEAD (‘99)
Director – Local Government Relations
Sempra Energy
The LEAD Class of 2009 got underway on Thursday, September 18. I got to work early that morning so I could review the materials provided by LEAD and prepare for my opportunity to address the group of leaders who would begin the same
journey I had undertaken some ten years before as a member of the Class of 1999.
Some things were certainly the same: about sixty people were assembled with only a few knowing anyone in to room. All had arrived early and were excitedly anticipating the beginning of a nine-month journey that would teach them a lot
about themselves and even more about the San Diego community. Yet some things were definitely different: LEAD's staff was entirely different; the approach to community leadership was different; the content of the core curriculum was
different, including the leadership action team projects! As I reviewed the day that was planned, I recall being delighted to learn that the seminar facilitators were none other than some of the fabulous people who were instrumental to the
successful Master of Science in Executive Leadership program at the University of San Diego. As a current master's degree candidate in the program, I knew the day would be an unforgettable experience for the individuals who were about to
begin their journey with LEAD.
I was invited to say a few things about Sempra Energy and my leadership experience with LEAD. I started by explaining how blessed I am to work for a company that places a high value on civic leadership and community involvement, citing
relevant statistics for the class to absorb: we employ nearly 14,000 people; we serve 29 million consumers with the lifeblood of our economy (energy) in the US, Mexico and South America; our 2007 revenues were over $11 billion, and more
than half of our earnings came from outside California. I told how hundreds of our employees sit on nonprofit boards of directors, and how dozens have been through the LEAD core curriculum (1 or 2 people almost every year since 1981). I
also explained that the company contributes more than $12 million annually to worthy causes, and that thousands of us also volunteer our time and our personal money to help make a difference. I emphasized that this was how I came to be
involved with LEAD.
I then went on to discuss my experience with LEAD, a local program with a national reputation for excellence. I told the class that once they graduate, LEAD will have big expectations of them: for starters, LEAD will expect the Class of
2009 to be a catalyst for positive change in the region. When I graduated from LEAD ten years ago, I was immediately elected onto LEAD's board of directors and spent the next six years serving the organization and learning first-hand some
valuable leadership lessons which I carry with me today. Two years after graduating from LEAD, I graduated from Leadership California and two years after that, I graduated from Leadership America. As valuable as they were, neither
compared to the LEAD San Diego experience.
I have since served LEAD in varying capacities over the years and explained to the class that LEAD is an organization I'll never say "no" to, no matter what they ask of me. Why? Because I believe the experience of LEAD is an incredible
gift and that it is up to each of us to learn, grow, give back and more than anything pay the experience forward. Graduates of LEAD join a network of more than 1,700 leaders who are each helping the community in their own individual
ways, serving as volunteers, serving on boards and extending the vast relationship network. I challenged the group to think about the ripple effect of that network when mobilized! After all, that's the true essence and capacity of LEAD.
My opportunity to spend time with the Class of 2009 was fleeting, but enormously worthwhile! Why? First, it brought me full circle and face-to-face with the leader I had become; the growth and learning I have experienced since graduating
from LEAD ten years ago. The self-examination alone was priceless. Second, it renewed my enthusiasm for the work and gifts of LEAD most of which center on the very special people who give of themselves to teach others, to share learning
and to inspire leadership.
Perhaps the best gift of all is that each of the very special people I met that morning will now be a part of my network and our collective service to our region. Hat's off to LEAD and its Class of 2009!
LEAD thanks Sempra Energy, Seminar Series Sponsor AT&T and The San Diego Union-Tribune for their generous support.
See 2009 Class Roster and Seminar Updates
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Leadership Trust
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FAR REACHES OF SCIENCE EXPLORED AT LEADERSHIP TRUST EVENT AT CALIT2
By Peter James MacCracken, APR
What happens when you put some of the world's most powerful computing capabilities in the hands of some of the world's most inquisitive minds? You get the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), a
multidisciplinary, scientific research center doing work that astounded the LEADership Trust at an October 30 event.
 Housed next door to the Jacobs School of Engineering, the UCSD Division of Calit2 is difficult to summarize … except by synthesizing its research
centers and projects, which is no small task. The Trust tour began with a briefing by Ramesh Rao, director of the UCSD Division of Calit2. Originating in the year 2000, a bygone era of California budget surplus, Calit2 is a state
investment in science – although the bulk of funding for its projects now comes from federal agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
At UC San Diego, it is a collection of projects being pursued in specialized spaces, which we then viewed in a whirlwind tour that left minds spinning. First, in the auditorium variously nicknamed a "collaboratory" or a "digital cinema,"
where every seat has Gigabit Ethernet access, we saw a film in regular video format and then 4K format (four times the resolution of high-definition TV). The detail is breath-taking.
Next was an introduction to interdisciplinary work incorporating art, architecture and archaeology as applied to Leonardo da Vinci's "Adoration of the Magi." Imaging that combined different light spectra provided information to conclude
that while da Vinci drew the painting's intricate detail, the paint on top of the drawing was not by Leonardo. Even beyond that, previously impossible analysis of the drawing underneath the painting provided architectural and
anthropological insights into that era.
A new project focused on peer-to-peer wireless demonstrated traffic reporting that can be fully personalized and accessed via cell phone at (866) 500-0977. Try it!
The tour included demonstration of a five-sided virtual reality "cave" that allows users to "walk through" everything from a DNA molecule to the infrastructure of a bridge that is still being designed to look for flaws. The imaging is so
realistic and so dimensional that we were warned about the potential for inducing queasiness!
Computer gaming carried to an almost unimaginable level is behind an interactive artwork and learning tool called "Scalable City," where attendees could fly through and move houses and other built features in an imaginary landscape.
 Pictured: Leadership Co-Chair Stath Karras (94) speaks to membrs of the Trust.
Brief introductions to other projects boggled our minds. The HIPerSpace wall of video monitors showed an image of the world the size of a living room wall that can be zoomed in on down to individual buildings. At 286 million pixels, the
HIPerSpace is the highest-resolution computer display in the world.
Wireless health monitoring will allow remote physical examinations and real-time connections with physicians to measure and improve treatment.
Robotic, remote-controlled first-responder vehicles could go into collapsed structures looking for survivors and additional potential dangers such as fires and broken gas lines.
There was more – much more – to see and learn. Although it seemed to require an advanced degree to understand, Calit2, in Chancellor Marye Anne Fox's words, "boldly exemplifies UCSD's three pillars of strength: innovation,
interdisciplinary scholarship and international collaboration." We got that.
The San Diego LEADership Trust saw the future taking shape and that is a clear benefit of membership. The Trust is LEAD's highest level of membership and a civic venture open to graduates and other community members.
Members enjoy exclusive events like this on a quarterly basis to foster "ideas and innovation, to launch new initiatives and stimulate progress."
Learn More about the Trust Here
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LEAD News & Events
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2008-2009 Leadership Action Teams To Be Announced Soon
LEAD San Diego, along with our partners at AT&T and Price Charities, continues to invest in providing assistance to area nonprofit organizations. The Leadership Action Team's (LATs) affect positive change in the non-profit
community through the Service Learning component of the 9-month Core Curriculum experience. The opportunity often stirs deep commitment and passion for San Diego's under resourced communities in class participants. Additionally, projects
enhance leadership, teambuilding and collaborative skills. The projects provide opportunities for the class to Learn, Experience and Leave a Footprint.
The LAT partnerships will be announced in January's edition of Connections.
LEAD's Leadership Welcomes the Class of 2009
at Reception following Leadership 101 Day
 On Thursday evening, September 18, 2008, and following their opening day on Leadership 101, the class of 2009 took time to enjoy a short
reception hosted by the day's sponsor Sempra Energy.
Pictured: Members of the new class have a chance to get acquainted.
LEAD Board and Program Advisory Council members dropped by the short reception to welcome the fifty-seven new participants as they begin their leadership experience. They were encouraged to take their places in an already impressive
network of community leaders devoted to bettering the future for their families, friends and colleagues.
LEAD depends on support from its key investors and its success is due in large part to their belief in us. Special thanks went out to Sempra Energy, one of LEAD's long-time supporters, and whose support ensures our ability to offer
our cutting-edge programming and events.
Picured: LEAD Board Members Larry Fitch (01f), Don Green (92) and Leadership Trust Co-Chair Molly Cartmill (99), enjoy catching up with each other.
The 2009 Visionary Awards
LEAD San Diego recieved a very large number of nominations for the The 2009 Visionary Awards. The amazing group of candidates exemplifies leadership in San Diego and certainly helps inspire it in those
around them.
2009 marks the seventh year for this impressive and growing awards program that pays tribute to those who have demonstrated visionary leadership in our region. Last year, over 800 community leaders from both the public and private
sectors, as well as leaders from both sides of our regional border were in attendance. We expect an even larger crowd in 2009.
Watch for the announcement of this inspiring group of individuals in early January.
The 2009 Visionary Awards
Thursday, May 21, 2009
5:30 – 8:30 pm
San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina
Marriott Hall
333 West Harbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92101
For more information on the event, or for sponsorship opportunities, visit
click here or contact Wendy Wilson at
wwilson@leadsandiego.com.
10News Leadership Awards
Since 2002, San Diego has partnered with KGTV Channel 10 and Sempra Energy for the 10 Leadership Awards program. Volunteer San Diego has also joined in the partnership.
The 10 Leadership Awards program honors ordinary people who are doing extraordinary things to improve the quality of life in the San Diego region.
Consisting of televised weekly segments hosted by Channel 10 digital news correspondent Geni Cavitt, this program provides a one-of-a-kind media opportunity each week to tell important stories of how everyday citizens are
motivating, mentoring, serving, impacting and most importantly, demonstrating leadership in the region's diverse communities.
Four new categories have been added: Community Action, Volunteerism, Environment and Diversity. If you know of someone deserving an award, please nominate them. The 10News Leadership Award Committee,
made up of KGTV, Volunteer San Diego and LEAD San Diego staff members review each submission.
Learn More.
Save The Date! LEAD Introduces First Alumni Community
Service Project
LEAD invites all alumni and guests to participate in our first quarterly alumni community service project on Saturday, January 24, 2009 from 9 am -12 pm at the San Diego River Mouth. This sensitive wetland area needs your help in
maintaining its condition as a habitat for native plant and animal species. Volunteers will help preserve and restore the area by planting native plants, removing non-native and invasive plants, maintaining an interpretive trail and
picking up trash. The project is sponsored by Aquatic Adventures, which educates urban youth about science, the ocean and nature through tuition-free programs, creating the next generation of scientific and environmental
leaders.
LEAD Alumni Community Service Project
San Diego River Mouth
January 24, 2009
9:00 - 12 pm
Learn More
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LEAD News and Kudos
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LEAD San Diego staff and board members extend a warm "welcome" to Matthew B. Williams, our new Program/Operations Administrator. Matthew comes to us from San Diego's 3rd Works LLC, where he worked in Client Services.
On Saturday, September 27, 2008, The American Cancer Society celebrated its Discovery Gala Garden Party and honored past LEAD Board Chair, current Board and Leadership Trust member Marilyn Sawyer (84). Sawyer was
recogized for her generous donation of time in working to eradicate cancer.
LEAD Graduate Elyse Lowe (07) has been named Executive Director of Move San Diego. Move San Diego's promotes progress on the planning, development, and use of different transportation modes – such as walking, bicycling and public
transit – and the land use patterns that help determine their effectiveness. .
In late October, The San Diego Business Journal held its 15th Annual Women Who Mean Business Awards. LEAD Pesident & CEO Judy Forrester was one of 30 honorees. The awards dinner recognized exemplary service, community
service, community leadership and courage and raised money for both Rachel's Women's Center and the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
Each year, Bank of America recognizes Student Leaders, Local Heroes and Neighborhood Builders in each of its regions through its Neighborhood Excellence Initiative. This year, Aquatic Adventures was chosen as a Neighborhood Builder in San
Diego. Shara Fisler (03), Executive Director of Aquatic Adventures, accepted the award for the agency at the awards ceremony on November 6.
In their August issue, Bellissima Magazine named Maryam Davodi-Far (04), Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Cancer Coping Center, as one of four Exceptional Women of San Diego.
The San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce's board elected LEAD San Diego board member Ben Haddad, partner at California Strategies, as board chairman for 2009.
The San Diego City Council re-appointed Laurie Black (86) to the San Diego's Board of Port Commissioners.
The San Diego City Council appointed Scott Peters (95) to the San Diego's Board of Port Commissioners. He will take office in January, after he leaves the San Diego City Council due to term limits.
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