Leadership Miami®

The Leadership Miami® program offers participants the opportunity to meet Miami's leaders and to share an intensive learning experience that focuses on community issues and leadership skills through a planned process of lectures, seminars, small group discussions and leadership skills exercises.

This committee is responsible for the planning of the annual program. Committee members must be alumni of the program.

Chair

Fanny Navarro

Community Engagement Manager

Miami-Dade County

Vice Chair

Erin Sutherland

Vice President, Community Relations Manager

Bank of America

Leadership Miami Alumni

Catherine Garrido

Assistant Director

UM School of Business Administration

Staff Contact

Ivette Canales

Laura Flores

Goals

Provide leadership development and skills to all members and offer leadership topics/opportunities as a programming staple at LM Focus Sessions

Identify six to eight key skills working with leadership faculty from member universities and Chamber leaders
Facilitator Leadership Development Workshops
- Ensure programming guidance is effective, reliable, dependable, and leadership centric at all levels of participation (Facilitator Opening Conference breakout session
Participant Conference-Style Leadership Development Focus Session Workshops
- Provide instructional activities to build leadership skills needed to become and sustain a successful leader in Miami-Dade County
Review Leadership Miami Participant Handbook and Program Benefits
- Confirm program expectations and requirements are clear, ethical and achievable

Establish a Recruitment and a Retention plan to cultivate the Leadership Miami Alumni initiatives and encourage membership renewal after the one-year membership program benefit.

Establish and execute Alumni Plan
Review and Monitor the Chamber committee match-up process/fair to encourage Chamber involvement by the graduating class and Alumni

Explore offering an on-line program progress tool and a professional networking/communications forum that will assist attrition monitoring and increased communications, networking group project marketing

Review social networking platforms and select a communications forum with admin Chamber capabilities and designate a liaison with admin rights from the LM executive planning committee
Create Google.doc for Fieldwork & Facilitator Reports as a monitoring system with participant read-only access for Fieldwork and on-going document for Facilitator Reports

Cultivate public/private partnership through engagement and marketing opportunities.

Implement monthly program sponsorship progress and highlight communication project
Explore collaboration of Co-hosting a GotLeadership! Social with Leadership Broward
Create and assist in the Leadership Miami Alumni directory to release to Leadership Miami Program 40th anniversary

Collaborate within the Leadership Programs Group to create joint experiences and engage the Chamber Committee Chairs to be part of the Focus Session as a Chamber committee introduction.