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IDA’s 2019 Emerging Leaders Fellowship Program Attracts Top Urban Champions

March 08, 2019

 

 

 

IDA’s 2019 Emerging Leaders Fellowship Program Attracts Top Urban Champions

 

 

 

Fellows to learn essential leadership and place management skills in New York City

 

 

 

 

WASHINGTON, DC – The International Downtown Association (IDA) selected 30 of the industry’s brightest professionals for the 2019 Emerging Leaders Fellowship (ELF) program. These senior staff members hail from 3 countries and 17 provinces or states, including Newcastle, UK; Vancouver, BC, Canada; Milwaukee,WI; SanFrancisco,CA; Austin,TX; NewHaven,CT; Jacksonville,FL; and Denver, CO.

 

 

 

Alumni of the IDA Emerging Leaders Fellowship program, launched in 2016, are fast becoming sought- after leaders for the future of city building worldwide. In just three years, the ELF program has resulted in at least 20% of its graduates receiving promotions and significant pay increases. Graduates have become new CEOs, accepted CEO positions in other organizations, and others have elevated to more senior stafflevels.

 

“The success of our Fellowship program underscores how critical this training is to our growing   industry,” said David Downey, President and CEO of IDA. “This is the only program of its kind created specifically for urban place management professionals. IDA is looking to further illustrate the importance of our industry by elevating leaders with the necessary skills to champion inclusive citybuilding.

Professional development remains a hallmark of IDA.”

 

The Emerging Leader Fellowship is a week-long experiential program bringing together a cohort of IDA professionals from within the urban district management industry. The fellows learn essential leadership and place management skills and gain practical tools in the areas of place-based economic development, the live-work-play experience, and public-private partnerships.

 

“The International Downtown Association is looking to build the future of our industry, and these accomplished executives are the rising stars of our profession,” said Downey. “With this program, we’re educating and inspiring the next generation of leaders.”

 

The program takes place June 16-21, 2019 in New York City featuring intensive instruction delivered by IDA partners at Baruch College, City University of New York, Times Square Alliance and Coro New York Leadership Center. Professionals from several business improvement district organizations across the city provide technical in-the-field training. The event takes place at various locations throughout Manhattan with field visits provided by several local BID leaders.

 

Congratulations to the 2019 cohort!

 

 

About the International Downtown Association

The International Downtown Association is the premier organization for urban place professionals who are shaping and activating dynamic city center districts. Our members are downtown champions who bring urban centers to life, bridging the gap between the public and private sectors. We represent an industry of more than 2,500 place management organizations, employing 100,000 people throughout North America and growing rapidly around the world. Founded in 1954, IDA is a resource center for ideas and innovative best practices in urban place management. For more information and a list of other upcoming IDA events, visit www.downtown.org.

 

About the Coro New York Leadership Center

Coro New York Leadership Center is New York’s premier leadership training organization and a community of over 2,300 alumni across business, government, schools, and non-profits that is shaping our city’s future. Coro training helps individuals hone their visions for change and learn how to exercise leadership with greater self-awareness, intention, and effectiveness. We work with leaders, both seasoned and emerging, from many different fields who come to Coro to discover how cities really work and how policy is shaped, while also learning how to collaborate across differences, build culture and community, and make progress on shared challenges. From commissioners and city councilmembers to activists, executives, and entrepreneurs, those who come to Coro build the skills, knowledge, and networks to help them pursue their visions for change with greater effectiveness and impact.Through a series of three leadership training sessions, Coro will provide participants in IDA’s Fellowship with a set  of frameworks and strategies to help them develop best practices for leading change. Focusing on the personal, interpersonal and systems-level, each session will examine change-making from a different lens and provide new tools, along with experiential activities to test out these new ideas inaction.

NPA Announces National Leaders of Parking Education Steering Committee Parking Pros Collaborate to Build Extensive Professional Development Program

April 18, 2016

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NPA Announces National Leaders of Parking Education Steering Committee
Parking Pros Collaborate to Build Extensive Professional Development Program

 

Washington, DC (April 18, 2016)—The National Parking Association (NPA) recently announced the formation of the NPA National Education Committee. The members of the NPA National Education Committee serve as subject advisors, training, human resources and matter experts on parking, transportation, technology and business. The NPA National Education Committee supports NPA’s education strategy and provides insight on topics important to the parking community, identifies knowledge gaps and steers the association’s professional development programming.

 

Since its inception, the Committee launched NPA’s first online certificate, focusing on human resources and is preparing to release the second on safety and security this spring. A third addressing emergency preparedness is in development for this summer. The Committee also played an integral role in planning the education program for the NPA 2016 Convention and Expo, being held September 19–22 in Atlanta, GA.

The committee is comprised of professionals from various sectors of the parking industry, holding myriad professional credentials. Each member, listed below, brings unique expertise and parking knowledge to the committee:

· Kathy Phillips, CIC, CPP, Alliant Insurance Services, Inc., Chair
· Stephanie Barnes, MA, LAZ Parking
· Brett Bodenan, MBA, Park N’ Fly
· Andi Campbell, MS, CPLP, LAZ Parking
· Peer Ghent, City of Los Angeles
· Tom Hartley, MBA, Florida International University
· Jerry Marcus, The Parking Advisory Group
· Marcia Nelson, MBA, ABM Parking
· Vicki Pero, SPHR, The Marlyn Group
· TJ Schmaltz, LLB, BCL, CHRP, Impark

“NPA’s education strategy centers on delivering high value education, programs and services, enabled by technology for the betterment of the parking & transportation industry,” said NPA President Christine Banning, MA, CAE. She added, “This national steering committee of dedicated professionals will help develop relevant, performance focused learning that helps parking professionals develop as leaders and deliver on operating performance excellence through best practices, standards and lifelong learning and credentialing.”

NPA’s comprehensive education program includes both in-person and online experiences. This month it will launch the first of several certificate programs focusing on human resources. In the online certificate program, participants will learn how to effectively hire, orient, train and motivate employees through three learning modules: Hire Smart, Build Your Bench and Train to Culture. Courses will be available at WeAreParking.org.

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About NPA: The National Parking Association is the nation’s leading parking trade group advancing the interests of the private and public sector in parking technology, sustainable mobility, certification, advocacy, research and education. Founded in 1951, NPA has more than 2,500 members and represents all facets of the parking industry. WeAreParking.org