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 30th year, more than 1,700 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.

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.

 
  Dale Cannady
Acting Executive Director
Been with LMR since July 2009
LMR Class of 1996

As Acting Executive Director, Dale leads the organization in fulfilling its mission through strategic visioning, planning, program design and resource management. 


Rai Booker
Director of Community Engagement
Been with LMR since November 2004
Bachelor of Arts, Aquinas College

As Director of Community Engagement, Rai leads member and community programming, special events, marketing and web strategies.  She  also assists with new program development.

"Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.." – Bell Hooks

Vikki Barth
Director of Finance & Administration
Been with LMR since January 2010
Bachelor of Science, Aquinas College

As Director of Finance and Administration, Vikki leads day to day office operations and finances. She also leads LMR's annual fund campaign.

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they woul've said faster horses." - Henry Ford

Stewart D. Roberson
Chair
Superintendent of Schools, Hanover County Public Schools

Julie Joyce
Chair Elect
Human Resouces Partner

Thomas A. Silvestri
Immediate Past Chair
Richmond Times Dispatch

Sherrie Brach
Treasurer
United Way

Stacy Burrs
Secretary
Capacity Development, LLC

Directors

Lee Brazzell
Transformations Corporations Consulting Group

Hugh F. Gouldthorpe, Jr.
Owens & Minor

Don Garber
Kjellstrom & Lee, Inc.

Rhu Harris
Hanover County

Virgil R. Hazelett
Henrico County

Jill Hoover
Hoover & Strong

John C. Ivins, Jr.
Hirschler Fleischer

Adele C. Johnson
Community Volunteer 

Renee Johnson
Dominion

Herbert Jones
New Kent County

Taylor Mundy
Junior League of Richmond

Amy Nisenson
Nonprofit Consultant

Neil Kessler
Troutman Sanders LLP

Lucy B. Meade
Venture Richmond

Rumy Mohta
Richmond Travels, Inc./RITTS Corporation

Karen Raschke
Community Volunteer

Ruth Roberts
St. Catherine's School

T.K. Somanath
The Better Housing Coalition

Jay Stegmaier
Chesterfield County

George Welch
Universal Leaf

Stephanie White
MeadWestVaco

Philip J. Whiteway
Theatre IV and Barksdale Theatre

Thomas Silvestri
Ex-officio
Incoming Chair
Greater Richmond Chamber