That Lars Email - Chapter 2
Lars Leafblad
Executive Search Consultant | Career Serendipity Accelerator | Small Business Owner | INFJ
That Lars Email - Chapter 2?
Thank you to all Three Thousand Six Hundred and Thirty-Three/100 of you who have?opted into this pay-it-forward collective experiment!!!?
Yes, 3,633 subscribers from across the country have signed up over our first two weeks! Thank you all!! Please hit "share" on this post to help invite others to join us.
Thank you to the 70 subscribers who read all the way to the end of our first issue and submitted their name in our "That Lars Email Holiday Gift Card" contest.?
I randomized all 70 names using Random.org and selected the 1st and 24th (happy 2024 all) names listed as our $50 VISA card recipients; congratulations Nicole Weiler and Katie Eukel !!
Please continue to share feedback, ideas, questions and content submissions anytime via?[email protected] , message me or use the Google form below:
If you missed our first issue, you can read it (along with future?archived issues) here ->
With that, onwards and upwards we go....
PROPS
(Please send along career updates/news/celebrations/props/shout outs/snaps for yourself or colleagues for future issues!!)
Betsy McDermott Altheimer on relaunching her consulting practice, Table Forte - >?https://www.tableforte.com/
Meg Gehlen Nodzon on her promotion to?Senior Program Officer for Catholic Universities and US Catholic Partnerships at GHR Foundation?
Jen Randolph Reise co-founded North Star Law Group (St. Paul) and leads its Business and Cannabis Law practice
Heather A. Johnston named new COO at Winthrop & Weinstine
Kari Davis selected as the new Executive Director of Prairie Care Fund Foundation
Zara (Sara) Zanussi joined the MN International NGO Network board of directors?
Joel A. Swanson II, APR, MACT joined the Minnesota PRSA Board of Directors?for a two-year term as Ethics Officer
Melissa P. was promoted to Sr. Director of National Operations at Jostens and was elected to the Graduate Business Alumni Board at the University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business.?
Amanda DePhillips recently joined the board of the Mounds View Schools Education Foundation
Christopher Kopka joined Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) as Health Systems Research Group Strategist in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.?
Patricia Lopez joining Bloomberg Opinion as politics and policy columnist for the Midwest
Krista Mathews, JD named new Director of Development at The Guthrie Theater
Brad Larmie, MBA named new Executive Director of University Enterprise Laboratories
Margaret Anderson Kelliher named new City Operations Officer for City of Minneapolis?
AMPLIFY
(Have an upcoming event in Minnesota that you want to help amplify? Pass it along!!)
PACER Center's annual Benefit concert will feature The Goo Goo Dolls who will perform at the Minneapolis Convention Center on April 27, 2024.? Tickets on sale in January at PACER.org . (via Tonia Teasley )?
领英推荐
"Jesse Ventura Shocks the World" documentary premieres January 16th at 8 pm CT on TPT ->?https://www.tpt.org/jesse-ventura-shocks-world/ (via Mary Lahammer )
CELEBRATE
(Have some news that made your day or inspired you? Please pass it along!)
Kate Barr shares parting wisdom as she transitions from Propel Nonprofits ->
PBS NewsHour noted Minnesota's new state flag ->?https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/what-to-know-about-minnesotas-new-state-flag-and-seal
The Year in Cheer (177 Ways the World Got Better in 2023) ->?https://reasonstobecheerful.world/the-year-in-cheer-2023/
1,000 Bits of Good News You Might Have Missed in 2023 ->?https://humanprogress.org/1000-bits-of-good-news-you-may-have-missed-in-2023/
"Hopescrolling" - 52 fact-based optimistic news stories from 2023 ->?
SHARE
(Have an article, job posting, or content that you found insightful, valuable, inspiring, thought provoking or perspective setting? Pass it along!!)
Neighborhood House seeks new President & CEO ->?https://www.ballingerleafblad.com/s/Neighborhood-House-President-CEO-PositionProfile-Final.pdf ?(via Damon Shoholm )
Carlson Family Foundation seeks Communications Director (part-time) ->?
African American Leadership Forum (AALF) seeks Director of Leadership Development ->?https://www.pollenmidwest.org/opportunities/director-of-leadership-development
Genesys Works - Twin Cities seeks Development Manager ->?https://jobs.minnesotanonprofits.org/job/development-manager-saint-paul-minnesota-88834
Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. seeks Director of Pro Bono and Community Service ->?https://www.dhirubhai.net/jobs/view/3797957875
The Minnesota State Fair seeks new Crop Art & Scarecrow Assistant Superintendent ->?https://secure6.entertimeonline.com/ta/6121938.careers?CareersSearch
"How America Got Mean" by David Brooks in "The Atlantic" ->?https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/09/us-culture-moral-education-formation/674765/
MinnPost's?most-read opinion pieces of 2023 ->?
Wishing you and yours a great start to 2024!!?
See you next year and don't forget to pass along your content for TLE Chapter 3!
Use the Google form HERE!
Onwards and upwards,
Lars
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Nonprofit Development and Marketing/Communications Professional
10 个月Thank you for the add. I'm pleased to announce that The Golden Mean Project is releasing our first album on Bandcamp on January 19: https://thegoldenmeanproject.bandcamp.com/album/meden-agan?logged_out_mobile_menubar=true&search_item_id=2437067578&search_item_type=b&search_match_part=%3F&search_page_id=3101624507&search_page_no=0&search_rank=3
Senior Marketing and Communications Officer: Building Growth Engines through People, Process and Technology
10 个月Thanks for including me in your email, Lars!
Strategic Partnership Specialist for the Minnesota Society of CPAs | Partnership Development, Business Growth
10 个月Reading all the “good” is so uplifting. Thanks for sharing!
Principal at Seiche, a social impact strategy and communications firm
10 个月Ah! Exciting. Appreciate the tag, Nicole Weiler. Glad to see this back in action, Lars Leafblad????
Senior Director, National Operations - JostensPIX at Jostens
10 个月Thank you for including me in this issue, Lars - I appreciate it. I loved seeing familiar names and the great things that are happening. Excited to see all the fantastic things to come!