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RCGAction
The Monthly Newsletter and Planning of the St. Louis
RCGA
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RCGA Delegation
of 128-Regional Business, Civic and Elected Leaders Experience Boston’s
“Best Practices”
In what has become an annual tradition in the St. Louis area, 128-regional
leaders visited Boston in May for the RCGA Annual Leadership Exchange.
The visit to Boston provided a unique opportunity for the region’s
diverse leadership to focus on important issues to the metro area,
strengthen existing friendships, and forge new ones. Regional leaders—from
Civic Progress CEOs to small business entrepreneurs, to arts, educational
and civil rights leaders, and elected officials and civic leaders—are
emerging as a true regional community to rigorously address region-wide
challenges.
Above:
Regional civic, government and business leaders participated
in the RCGA Annual Leadership Exchange to Boston in May. The St.
Louis delegates met with 22 of their Boston counterparts in an action-packed
agenda during the three-day trip.
Co-chairs of the Leadership Exchange were RCGA Chairman John Bachmann;
RCGA Board members Bruce Holland; Patricia Whitaker; and Doug Yaeger;
as well as the President of the St. Louis Clergy Coalition Rev.
Earl Nance, Jr. The St. Louis delegates met with 22 of their Boston
counterparts in an action-packed agenda during the three-day Leadership
Trip.
Above:
RCGA Chairman John Bachmann, (left), with Dr. Michael Porter,
Harvard University School of Business professor, and founder and
CEO of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), prior
to Porter’s presentation on The Importance of Cluster Development
to a Region’s Economic Growth.
Above:
Boston Trip delegate Daniel Jay, principal of Christner, Inc.,
(left), listens to presenter Joseph Maguire, director of Real Estate
for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Maguire and other
panelists presented on the Boston Area’s Biotech Revolution. Standing
next to Jay are Ruth Binger, principal of Danna McKitrick, P.C.,
Doug King, president and CEO of the St. Louis Science Center, and
Harvey Harris, managing partner, the Stolar Partnership.
Among the topics during the Exchange were: “Far-Reaching Infrastructure
Strategies,” featuring Boston Metropolitan Area Planning Council
Executive Director David Soule; “Boston’s Biotech Revolution,” with
Massachusetts Biotechnology Council President Janice Bourque; “The
Importance of Cluster Development to a Region’s Economic Growth,”
featuring Harvard Business School professor, and CEO and founder
of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) Michael Porter;
and “The Importance of Venture Capital—Building a World-Class Regional
Capability,” with Advent International Corp. Chairman Peter Brooke,
a pioneering leader in Boston’s emergence as a life sciences venture
capital leader.
Other presenters included Harvard Kennedy School of Government professors
Ronald Heifetz and Marc Roberts; Economic Innovation International
Inc. Chairman Belden Daniels; and Massachusetts Secretary of Administration
and Finance Kevin Sullivan.
This was the RCGA’s sixth Leadership Exchange; previous Leadership
Trips were to Cleveland, Seattle, Baltimore, Denver and Toronto.
Speaking of Leadership Trips the Mayor of Nashville and 100 business
and civic leaders recently visited St. Louis for their annual Leadership
Trip.
Above: (From
left): St. Louis American Newspaper President and Publisher Dr.
Donald Suggs, DHR International Executive Search Consultants Executive
Vice President and Managing Director Larry Munson, and Grand Center,
Inc. President and CEO Vince Schoemehl, former mayor of the City
of St. Louis, greet each other prior to the dinner saluting chief
elected officials.
Above:
Enjoying their conversation are, (from left): Rev. B.T. Rice,
Chairman, St. Louis Black Leadership Roundtable, Patricia Mercurio,
President, Missouri Bank of America, and Clifton Berry, Director
of the Fannie Mae St. Louis Partnership Office.
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