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

 

 

Board of Directors

Past President

Dawn McIntosh - ELS ’21

City of Long Beach, City Attorney

Board Members

Avis Atkins McPhail - LLBI ’22

Amazon Web Services

Reid Branche-Wilson, LLBI '24

City of Long Beach Police

Staff

Director of Programs

Maria Alderete

LLBI 2026

Marketing & Development Intern

Amber Appel

Environmental Leadership Program Intern

Frida Mosquera

Staff

Director of Programs

Maria Alderete

LLBI 2026

Marketing & Development Intern

Amber Appel

Environmental Leadership Program intern

Frida Mosquera

Honorary Board of Governors

Rich Archbold

Ruth Ashley-Perez

Colleen Bentley

Jean Bixby Smith

Lou Anne Bynum

Dr. Vance Caesar

Wendy Chang

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

Alison King

Wayne Kistner

James Kruger

Ann Lentzner

Gina Rushing Maguire

Olivia Maiser

Dennis Moore

George Murchison

Dave Neary

Beverly O’Neill

Robin Perry

 

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

Cecile Walters

Felton Williams

Jeff Williams

Christina Winting

In Memoriam

Skip Keesal

Leadership Long Beach Institute

Applications for our Institute Program are being accepted through midnight on Sunday, july 13, 2025.

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