About Us

we are leadership long beach

Creating Leadership Programs For Over 30 Years

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.

history

our foundation

“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