Leadership for a New Era
Advisory Committee Conference Call
Thursday, February 25, 2010
11:30-1:00PM PST (2:30-4:00PM EST)
Call In Number: 1-866-550-7765 Conference Code: 2389080

• Welcome
• Year one Review/Action
• Review Goals of LNE
• Progress in year one
• Lessons Learned
• Collective Work on Leadership Model
• Future Plans
• Promotional strategy
• Questions

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Participants on call: Deborah Meehan, Natalia Castaneda Chaux, Bella Celnik, Laura Smith, Eugene Eric Kim, Alain Gauthier

Welcome and Check In
Deborah welcomed everyone and asked: As you look over the materials, what is one lesson that jumped out at you?

• Eugene said that he is facinated by these kinds of experiments. He thought the content on the wiki was tremendous - materials and deliverables really stood out. He was interested in the conflicts, experiments and innovations - interested in the "back stories."
• Natalia found it interesting in finding out how the actually writing was going to be done - how to get all the writers to collaborate.
• Deborah was pleased with the huge numbers that turned out for the meetings on the content work: "Conversation about Leadership and Race" convening of the Bay Area circle drew 45 participants; a scheduled March Meeting in Seattle on the topic has already attracted 40 registered participants; and a Boston circle announcement that just went out on the Networks piece has 10 people already signed on. The energy and interest level, demonstrates that the content is really important to people.
• Laura noted how true the diagram in the PowerPoint is - spoke to real struggles in the real world.

Year One Review Overview
Some of the highlights from year one of the LNE initiative include:

• Commitments from 20 partners - bringing a good level of expertise; and they have actually gone in and gotten engaged
• Now over 100 registered to the LNE website
  
• Convened a number of webinars about how to engage in the LNE
• Number of face-to-face convenings with great interest demonstrated - high level of face-to-face engagement
• Content and Production
• Have synthesis on Leadership and Race posted to the wiki
• Had meeting with collaborators and are into the collaborative editing process (Leadership and Race)
• Funds have been secured to print the first publication, Leadership and Race
• Outline for Leadership and Networks has been posted to the site
• Resource directories for all four areas have been populated (and continue to have resources added)