The Leadership Academy Announces Programs for Summer Interns

The Memphis Leadership Academy recently announced that it will sponsor a program this summer designed to help you recruit those knowledge based workers that you are bringing to town this summer as interns and summer associates. The program is known as MemphisConnect. Whether your recruits are originally from Memphis or from other places, we need to collectively do a better job of showing them all that's right about Memphis. Study after study shows that attracting and retaining knowledge based workers is a huge key to eceonomic development.

So if you know of a knowledge based worker that will be a recruit this summer, please let them know about the Leadership Academy program and let the Leadership Academy know about the recruit. You can do that by e-mailing the recruits name and contact information to Sally Pace, Director of MemphisConnect for the Leadership Academy. Her e-mail address is: sallyp@leadershipacademy.org.

MemphisConnect will include the following events:

Leadership Lenses, May 29, Noon to 1:15 p.m. - Meet your peers who are in Memphis for the summer while getting a chance to sharpen your leadership communication skills.

Social Netwroking at the Memphis Music Foundation, June 27, Evening - A private party in the midst of one of our city's most popular street parties, this is a chance to meet established city leaders and peers during the South Main Trolley Night.

Memphis 101, July 15, 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. - Get to really know this town through an interactive program that inspires pride and respect for our city. Candid, compelling, enlightening, Memphis 101 is a crash course in memphis culture, people and politics. Video cameos by Pitt Hyde, Billy Kyles, Maxine Smith, Henry Turley and others.

Exploring My Place in Memphis, August 7, Noon to 1:15 p.m. - We all play a crucial part in advancing Memphis - explore your role in our city, visualize the possibilities. This is also one more opportunity to spend time with your peers before the summer winds down.

For more information about MemphisConnect check our the Leadership Academy at www.leadershipacademy.org or the MemphisConnect portion of their site www.leadershipacademy.org/memphisconnect/

Although it's unrelated the Leadership Academy, another great tool to help put a positive face on Memphis is www.mymemphis.tv.