Community Memorial Foundation in collaboration with the Center for Creative Leadership announced that community health leaders from nonprofit organizations in Cook and DuPage counties have completed the Ladder to Leadership: Developing the Next Generation of Community Health Leaders program.
The Ladder to Leadership program was designed to boost the skills and capabilities of early to mid-level professionals working in health and health‐related nonprofit organizations so they will be positioned to assume greater leadership roles in local nonprofit organizations.
The board and staff of Community Memorial Foundation selected the local leaders who work with a variety of health-related nonprofits in the western suburbs to take part in the 16-month leadership curriculum. As Lynn Fick-Cooper, lead faculty at the Center for Creative Leadership noted, “Each phase of the program includes a mixture of face to face training sessions, individualized executive coaching and mentoring and team project work—all anchored within the context of the communities in which these leaders live and work to maximize the application and impact of the program concepts.”
The following professionals in the Ladder to Leadership program include:
- Deb Baker, Associate Executive Director, HCS Family Services, Hinsdale
- Kristen Hermes, Director of Events and Marketing, Community Nurse Health Association, La Grange
- Dan Janowick, Director of Programs and Facilities, The Community House, Hinsdale
- Selena LeSure, Associate Director of Human Resources, Aspire of Illinois, Westchester
- Ellen Masuret, Director of Assisted Living, Plymouth Place, LaGrange Park
- Cathy Pierson, Program Operations Director, The LeaderShop, LaGrange
On Tuesday, Dec. 2, these community health leaders celebrated the completion of the Ladder to Leadership Program at a graduation event hosted by Community Memorial Foundation at the LaGrange Country Club from 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. During the event, each project team shares the results of their efforts to effect change in our community in ways that create positive impact and provide them with real-time learning experiences.
To learn more about the program, contact Tom Fuechtmann, Program Officer at 630-654-4729 or tfuechtmann@cmfdn.org or you can visit Community Memorial Foundation’s website:
http://www.cmfdn.org/