About Leadership Metro Richmond...
Leadership Metro Richmond is a community service program that seeks to advance the Richmond region by educating, energizing and connecting a diverse group of local leaders to serve the community. We strive to be the trustee of effective community leadership in the Richmond region.
Now in its 27th year, more than 1,500 Richmonders have graduated from LMR. Attorneys and bankers, artists and educators, clergy and councilmen, they come to LMR for reasons as diverse as their experiences. Some set out to develop their leadership skills, while others revel in the doors that the program opens for them. But different as they are, and varied as their motivations may be, each one shares a common goal – to advance and improve the Richmond region.
Each year, Leadership Quest class, the LMR flagship program, is divided into groups to work together on community service projects, which are submitted by nonprofit organizations throughout the Richmond community. These organizations, traditionally with big hearts but small budgets, look to LMR class members to not only apply their professional skills and acumen to the task at hand, but also to throw themselves at the assignment with the kind of energy and creativity that breeds results.
Members of LMR serve as social engineers who have successfully built a series of bridges throughout the community. They are spans that connect the corporate world to the nonprofit, that link city and county and that unite each class member to another (and by extension, to every LMR member). These bridges are our lifelines to one another and the ones we must cross together if we are to keep improving the quality of our region and our lives.
Thanks for your interest in LMR. We hope you will become acquainted with us and consider joining us to help bring out the best in our community.
Linda Powell Pruitt, Ph.D.
President
Been with LMR since 2007
Bachelor of Science, Northwestern University
MPHL and Ph.D., George Washington University
“When you come to the edge of all you know, you must believe one of two things: There will be earth to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly.” – Author unknown
Rai Booker
Director of Community Engagement
Been with LMR since November 2004
Bachelor of Arts, Aquinas College
“Let's make a dent in the universe. ” – Steve Jobs
Bob Blake (LMR Class of 1982)
Program Director
Been with LMR since July 2006
Bachelor of Science, Virginia Tech
MBA, University of Richmond
“We must be the change we wish to see in the world ” – Gandhi
Thomas A. Silvestri
Chair
The Richmond Times-Dispatch
Stewart D. Roberson, Ed. D.
Chair Elect
Hanover County School Board
Reginald E. Gordon
Immediate Past Chair
Greater Richmond Chapter - American Red Cross
Sherrie Brach
Treasurer
United Way
Carmen Foster
Secretary
Directors
Lee Brazzell
Transformations Corporations Consulting Group
Stacy L. Burrs
Commonwealth of Virginia
A. Dale Cannady
SunTrust Bank
Liu-Jen Chu
Community Volunteer
Gwen Corley Creighton
Corley Creighton Associates
Dayle T. Dunn
CBS-6
Hugh F. Gouldthorpe, Jr.
Owens & Minor
Don Garber
Kjellstrom & Lee, Inc.
Virgil R. Hazelett
Henrico County
John C. Ivins, Jr.
Hirschler Fleischer
Adele C. Johnson
Capital One Financial Services
Betsy Nelson
First Market Bank
Neil Kessler
Troutman Sanders LLP
Lucy B. Meade
Richmond Renaissance, Inc.
Randall S. Parks
Hunton & Williams
Ruth Roberts
St. Catherine's School
T.K. Somanath
The Better Housing Coalition
Philip J. Whiteway
Theatre IV and Barksdale Theatre
W. Berry Hofheimer
Ex-officio
Chair
Greater Richmond Chamber Foundation
Theodore L. Chandler, Jr.
Ex-officio
Chair
Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce