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Overview: Place management organizations can vary from city to city whether it be in size, structure, funding or implementation strategies, but ultimately performance needs to align with the downtown and its stakeholders. Join this session and hear from three seasoned professionals and the work they are doing to keep their strategic plan front and center.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand how to get board support to take the initial steps to embark on an organizational strategic planning process.
- Learn how to create a tool to internally prioritize future projects.
- Learn how an Organizational Action Plan outline can provide an overview of projects, programs, and priorities to build board consensus and establish a foundation for budget planning and organizational and staff goals.
Friday, October 27, 2023 | 12:00pm ET (9:00am PT)
Domain: Organizational Management
Pricing: IDA Members: Free | Nonmembers: $40
Advancing Places is an online series aimed at empowering IDA members with the solutions needed to address the most critical urban issues of the day. This session will include a moderated Q&A and will be recorded for member and nonmember use in the future.
Speakers:
- Jenn Hensley, Executive Director, Downtown Boise (ID)
- Jason Ilstrup, President, Downtown Madison, Inc. (WI)
- Jordan Polon, Executive Director, Hartford BID (CT)
Moderator:
- Carolyn Dellutri, Director of Professional Development, IDA
LPM | 1 IDA LPM professionals can earn credit hours for this webinar. More information about IDA’s Leadership in Place Management certification program can be found here.
Speakers
Matt Brown
CEO, Centro San Antonio
Matt is the lucky guy that gets to lead a team of passionate placemakers who work every day to make downtown San Antonio more beautiful, playful, prosperous, and welcoming. Since starting his career as an attorney, Matt accumulated 25+ years’ worth of experience in the private sector by founding play and creative companies; consulting for start-ups and Fortune 500s in strategy, innovation, and leadership; and serving as president and C-level executive for Scholastic, Klutz and LeapFrog, among others. Directly prior to moving to San Antonio, he was the Economic Development Director and Interim Land Use Director for Santa Fe, NM. He and his daughter have visited 15 state capitals on their way to all 50!
Elizabeth Burt
Director of Urban Activation + Play, Centro San Antonio
Liz is a passionate underutilized space evangelist known for collaboration matchmaking + play based troublemaking (snow, pumpkins, and Parisian mimes included). She graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio College of Public Policy studying Public Administration. More recently, she oversaw the award winning Activate Houston Street Initiative, a placemaking action plan to reinvigorate the historic pedestrian corridor in the heart of Downtown, which is recognized as a Best Practice in Public Space Management by the International Downtown Association, for which she is also a proud Emerging Leader Fellow.
Matt Sirgo
Director of Storytelling, Centro San Antonio
Matt oversees the Marketing, Communication, and Public Relations aspects of Centro. He proudly represented San Antonio in the International Downtown Association’s Emerging Leader Fellowship Class of 2022. After sharing the stories of Downtown San Antonio with the world, he enjoys creating TikToks about LGBTQ+ media. Matt graduated from Texas Tech University in 2016 with a Dual Major in Media Strategies and Honors Arts & Letters.
More Information
Registration information: When registering for a webinar, please complete the sign-up as yourself and not your organization. If additional staff would like to attend the same webinar, each individual must register as themselves to receive their unique login link. Questions? Email registration@downtown.org.
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