Since 1989, Leadership Long Beach, has helped inspire, create, and cultivate the more than 2,000 engaged alumni to give back to Long Beach. Our programs, centered on principled leadership, serve the community through educating and motivating our participants about issues and information important to the future of our city.
From the Mayor of Long Beach to the PTA parent to the Director at Boeing to the high school student council leader, our network of Leadership Long Beach alumni encompasses the diversity of Long Beach all working towards the goal of making Long Beach the best city it can be. Our alumni have shared experiences centered around our leadership principles that enable them to set imaginative yet realistic goals, and to meet them through coordinated and effective strategies.
“There were eight of us who came together in parking lot conversations in 1987. Community leaders representing widely diverse areas: education, business, media, law, social services, public relations and nonprofits. The conversations centered around the growing diversity of our City and the need to unite our neighborhoods and communities through a program that supported the individual development of ethical, informed and connected leaders. I so vividly recall WHY Leadership LB was founded. We were united in the belief that every person is a caretaker at heart, we (must) have the will to reach out and make the life of even ONE other person better, and a core belief that every human person has value and the power and potential to bring healing to others. Leadership Long Beach has had an impact on so many lives while helping make this community a better place to live.”
-Gina Rushing Maguire, Leadership Long Beach Founder
City of Long Beach, City Attorney
Rich Archbold
Colleen Bentley
Jean Bixby Smith
Lou Anne Bynum
Dr. Vance Caesar
Wendy Chang
Gayle Clock
Rolando Cruz
Veronica Dávalos
Gloria Deukmejian
Laura Doud
Dr. Minnie Douglas
Anne and Bob Emigh
Marcelle Epley
Nancy Gaines
Robert Garcia
Cathy Gies
John Glaza
Randy Gordon
Jim Gray
John Hancock
CJ Harmatz
Reginald Harrison
Doug Haubert
Randy Hausauer
Skip Keesal
Wayne Kistner
James Kruger
Ann Lentzner
Gina Rushing Maguire
Olivia Maiser
Dennis Moore
George Murchison
Dave Neary
Beverly O’Neill
Wilma Powell
Ryan Rayburn
Peter Ridder
Jill Rosenberg
Judy Ross
Drew Schneider
Woody Sides
Darick Simpson
Dennis C. Smith
Pam Spoo
Henry Taboada
Donita Van Horik
Dr. Mike Walter
Felton Williams
Christina Winting
The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness. It is generally a personal choice to uphold oneself to consistent moral and ethical standards.
The possibilities we see in the context of our core values; a picture of what we want “it” to be.
The collaborative effort of a group of people to willingly achieve a common goal or complete a shared task.
Standards of duty and virtue that indicate how we should behave; involves two aspects:
1) the ability to discern right from wrong, good from evil, and propriety from impropriety;
2) the commitment to do what is right, regardless of temptations and pressures otherwise
The feeling of sympathy and concern for the suffering of others coupled with the desire to help to alleviate it.
To take responsibility for our lives. Instead of blaming circumstances, conditions, or chance for our behavior, we choose our own responses and make our own decisions.
To honor and value ourselves first and then others or, we choose our own responses and make our own decisions.
To be counted on to keep our word; to do what we say we will do.
To dare to take action; to take a personal stand.
To hold in trust, take responsibility for, protect, and act on behalf of an asset; stewardship.
The action of helping or doing work from someone else.
To devote ourselves to a purpose and/or person.
Agreement or harmony; compatibility
The regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of something
Since 1989, Leadership Long Beach (LLB), through its principled leadership programs, helped inspire, create and cultivate more than 2,000 community-engaged alumni to give back to Long Beach.
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