Our Speakers

Liz Walker, Keynote Speaker, ELP Luncheon, October 23, 2008

The program draws upon UMass Boston and other leading private and public sector institutions for its faculty and speakers.

Each year of the program we are fortunate to have the top executives and civic leaders in the Boston area volunteer to speak about their individual “Path to Leadership” at our ELP forums. The 2013 cohort has heard from Jerry Sargent, President of Citizens Bank; Jim Rooney, Executive Director of the MCCA; Jose Masso, Producer at WBUR; Sandra Fenwick, President and COO of Boston Children’s Hospital; Karen Kaplan, President of Hill Holliday; Hubie Jones, Founder of the Boston Children’s Chorus; Kevin Harron, Founder and CEO of Burtons Grill; Robert Caret, President, University of Massachusetts; and Ruth Bramson, CEO of Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts, to name a few.

Each year we hold our Annual ELP Luncheon to celebrate the graduation of each cohort of emerging leaders. Past keynote speakers include Dr. Ronald Heifetz, Mayor Thomas Menino, Dr. Rosabeth Moss Kanter, The Honorable Michael Dukakis, Robert Kraft, Ted Kelly, Marshall Carter, The Honorable Edward Kennedy, Paul Levy, The Honorable Deval Patrick, Liz Walker, Jeff Taylor, Founder of Monster.com, and Dr. Randal Pinkett, Chairman and CEO, BCT Partners, Margaret McKenna, former President of the Walmart Foundation, and Jeff Swartz, former CEO of Timberland. The keynote speaker for the June 2013 lunch is Dr. Kerry Healey, President-elect of Babson College.

Other prominent speakers include:
Marsh Carter, New York Stock Exchange
Rick Friedel, AT&T
Nadine Chakar, Vicary Graham and John Herlihy, The Bank of New York Mellon
Ellen Zane, Tufts Medical Center
Hubie Jones, Boston Children’s Chorus
Kenneth Montgomery and Paul Connolly, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Donna Latson Gittens, causemedia
Gloria Larson, Bentley University
Hannah Grove and Joseph Chow, State Street Corporation
Reverend Ray Hammond, Ten Point Coalition
Barbara Robidoux, Frank Hauck and Bob Basiliere, EMC Corporation
Alan Trefler, Pegasystems
Joan Wallace Benjamin, The Home for Little Wanderers
Donna Cupelo, Verizon
Robert Matthews and Jerry Sargent, Citizens Bank
Cleve Killingsworth, William Van Fassen, Andrew Dreyfus, Steve Booma, Pat Gilligan and Fredi Shonkoff of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Wayne Budd, Goodwin Proctor
Gail Deegan, EMC Corporation Board of Directors
Christopher Mayer and Marty Baron, The Boston Globe
Elaine Ullian and Dr. Barry Zuckerman, Boston Medical Center
Dr. Chi Huang, Lahey Clinic
Diane Darling, Effective Networking
Rosalind Gorin, HN Gorin Associates
Sheryl Marshall, Business Development Consultant
Chazy Dowaliby, the Patriot Ledger
Marita Rivera, WGBH Educational Foundation
Marjorie Arons-Barron, Barron Associates Worldwide
Joanna Lau, Lau Technologies
Clayton Turnbull, Waldin Group
Javier Marin, Hispanic News
Maureen Feeney and Sam Yoon, Boston City Councilors