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Accomplished alumni shared their experiences and perspectives with more than 200 student leaders at the 2009 Lafayette Leadership Institute, themed “The Challenge to Change: Leadership in Transition.”
Keynote speaker Rawle Howard ’96, vice president in the commercial real estate group of the investment management firm BlackRock, shared his personal roadmap to leadership success.
Workshop topics ranged from networking to time management, personality style to budgeting, leadership tools to leadership challenges. Two members of the Board of Trustees, Barbara Levy ’77 and Elisabeth Hughes MacDonald ’81, led a session on how trustees promote positive change for the College. Levy is the former executive vice president, merchandising, Ross Stores, Inc. MacDonald is the former managing director, global investment banking, of Chase Securities Inc.
In a plenary session, alumni discussed the transition from student leader to successful graduate student or professional. Panelists included dentist Christine Bender ’04, who works with underserved patients in a non-profit clinic near Providence, R.I.; attorney Frank Campbell Jr. ’74, the former associate general counsel at State Street Corporation, now of counsel to the law firm of Adorno & Yoss LLP, Boston; Jillian Gaeta ’07, who teaches seventh-grade social studies in the South Bronx in the Teach for America program; Peter Krass ’87, author and editor of 11 books, including, most recently, Ignorance, Confidence and Filthy Rich Friends: The Business Adventures of Mark Twain; and Barbara Lombardo ’83, global learning solutions leader, IBM Global Business Services.
Made possible by the Class of ’68 Leadership Fund, the annual leadership institute is presented on campus by the Office of Student Life Programs. A dozen students and several members of the administration were also involved in presenting workshops. Students serving on the Lafayette Leadership Education Committee included Student Leadership Interns Michael Gruner ’10 (Bethesda, Md.); Nicholas Keller ’10 (Mountainside, N.J.), and Amanda Pisetzner ’10 (Puyallup, Wash.), plus Jill Carey ’09 (Sparta, N.J.), Treyvon Jackson ’10 (Germantown, Md.), Paul Sommers ’09 (Wenonah, N.J.), Bradley Williams ’10 (Marriottsville, Md.), and Jeffrey Zimmer ’10 (Brick, N.J.).