2009-‘10 ODN Focus: Leadership - Does it Matter Anymore?
Save the Date: Tuesday, September 15th
“Lessons Learned in Public Leadership”: Developing an Awareness of the Community You Serve, Building Teams for the Common Good, Communicating With Your Employees and Your Citizens, Timely Decision-Making
To kickoff ODN’s first event in a series of Leadership events for the 2009-2010 year, Teresa Isaac, former Mayor of Lexington, KY, will discuss community leadership.
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Speaker: Teresa Isaac
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Admission: $15 Members, $20 Non-Members, $25 at the Door
GCASTD Members can attend this meeting at the ODN member
discount of $15!
Please rsvp on our website, www.odncincy.org
About our Speaker: Teresa Ann Isaac
Former Lexington, Kentucky, Mayor Teresa Isaac likes to keep things moving. As mayor she presided over measures that previously had been stalled by controversy:
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Enactment of an indoor smoking ban
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Increased pay for police, firefighters and corrections personnel
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Budget cuts to every other area of government, including significant cuts to her own office budget
In her first months on the job, Mayor Isaac led the city through a major ice storm where more than 90,000 residents were without power. She received kudos for her compassion, hard work and leadership.
As a young lawyer, Teresa Isaac wrote the grant proposal to the U.S. Department of Education and directed the resulting project that did much to bring equity to sports in Kentucky. For those efforts she received a National Sports Equity Commendation, and the Golden Gazelle Award, in 1988. In 1988 she also was selected for the first class of Leadership America.
A University of Kentucky Law graduate, Isaac served three years as a prosecutor in the Fayette County Attorney’s office and five years as Associate Professor in the Eastern Kentucky University Department of Government and Law before running for office. She is an honors graduate of Bryan Station High School in Lexington and a Magna Cum Laude Graduate of Transylvania University.
Isaac served from 1999 through 2002 as Executive Director of the Lexington Fair Housing Council while also teaching. She resumed teaching in 2007 after her stint as mayor.
Isaac has received numerous national, state and local honors. In 1996 she was one of six American elected officials chosen to monitor the first Palestinian elections. The U.S. Department of State sent her to three cities in Argentina in 2004 and in Chile in 2005 as part of a democracy project to train mayors in those countries. In February of 2007, Isaac participated in the U.S. - Islamic World Forum, sponsored by the Brookings Institute, in Doha. Later that year, the State Department sent her to Namibia.
In April, 2007, Isaac was presented the Halaby Award for Public Service, at the Kahlil Gibran “Spirit of Humanity” Awards gala in Washington, D.C.
Directions:
DeVry University
8800 Governors Hill Dr
Suite 100
Cincinnati, OH 45249-1367
From the North
Interstate 71 South to Exit 19 Take a LEFT onto Mason Montgomery Rd.
Take a RIGHT onto Governor’s Hill Rd.
DeVry is on the RIGHT
From the South
Interstate 71 North to Exit 19
Take a RIGHT onto Mason Montgomery Rd.
Take a RIGHT onto Governor’s Hill Rd.
DeVry is on the RIGHT
From the East
Take Interstate 275 West to Interstate 71 North
Take a RIGHT onto Mason Montgomery Rd.
Take a RIGHT onto Governor’s Hill Rd.
DeVry is on the RIGHT
From the West
Take Interstate 275 East to Interstate 71 North
Take a RIGHT onto Mason Montgomery Rd.
Take a RIGHT onto Governor’s Hill Rd.
