It’s Mount Rushmore season for ELGL members. We’re asking for your top four list on a variety of topics.
Louise Wyatt
Organizational Development Manager, Albemarle County, VA
Connect: LinkedIn
Issues facing Albemarle
- Retirements and loss of institutional knowledge
- Attracting and retaining quality employees (especially younger generations)
- Increased urbanization of our County
- Growing our economic development program
Holidays
- Thomas Jefferson’s birthday (April 13th. We get it off!)
- Thanksgiving
- Christmas
- National Talk Like a Pirate Day
Dinner guests
- Tom Hanks
- Brene Brown
- Sam Sanders
- Tamara Keith
Career accomplishments
- Helping the County articulate a vision and leadership philosophy, and working on implementing it…
- Helping to establish and foster peer-to-peer job shadowing in the County
- Helping to establish and lead the County’s annual 6-month-long Innovative Leaders Institute, starting in 2011
- Helping to manage the County’s Innovation Fund, which allows employees to get one-time funding to try something new!
Fall activities
- Visiting local wineries and cideries
- Cheering UVA football
- Pumpkin carving with my kids
- Getting lost (and kinda terrified) in a corn maze with one of said kids
Previously
- Holly Karg, Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
- Kristen Smith, UNC School of Government
- Sarah Martin-Anderson, City of Kansas City, MO
- Timothy Martin, City of Roanoke, VA
- Aaron Hufford, City of Hamilton, OH
- Matt Yager, City of Plano, Texas
- Greg Stopka, Park District of Oak Park
- Doug Barrick, Town of Rutherfordton, NC
- Maia Knox, City of Issaquah, WA
- Lori Karaguezian, Orange County Sanitation District
- Courtney Kashima, Muse Community + Design
- Ande Banks, City of Harrisonburg, VA
- Tristin Terhune, City of Bel Aire, Kansas
- Michael Walters Young, City of Franklin, TN
- Leeanne Singleton, City of Hermosa Beach, CA
- Aaron Zavala, City of Mesquite, Texas