About this event:
CEO Roundtable is our monthly professional development offering for our members and the community.
We ask our featured speaker to candidly speak for 30 – 35 minutes about their lessons and advice for professional growth and community impact. And then open up to the audience so you can ask these leaders whatever you'd like to learn from them!
Registration:
- TYP Members – Free
- $20 Community Members
Schedule:
- 5:30 pm – 6:00 pm Networking and Appetizers
- 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm CEO Speaker talk + Q&A
About Our Speaker:
Kimber Lanning is an entrepreneur, business leader and community development specialist who works to cultivate strong self-reliant communities that enable a higher quality of life for people across Arizona. She is the founder and CEO of Local First Arizona, an organization focused on creating a diverse and inclusive Arizona economy with opportunity for all. LFA is a widely respected organization that is implementing systems, programs and policies to ensure a level playing field and increased access to capital for entrepreneurial endeavors and communities of all sizes.
Local First provides a comprehensive approach to economic development that includes entrepreneurship, community development, and capacity building, each of which plays a part in building sustainable and resilient local economies in healthy communities. She has received numerous awards for her diverse work and extensive leadership. Her work in promoting adaptive reuse in Phoenix’s urban core was recognized by the American Planning Association, who presented Lanning with the Distinguished Citizen Planner Award in 2013. She has also been named one of the “50 Most Influential Women in Arizona” (Arizona Business Magazine), and was named Citizen Leader of the Year from the International Economic Development Council.
In response to the COVID pandemic, Lanning led the team at Local First to distribute $52M in small business relief aid, and to secure $83M in new capital for Arizona’s small cities, towns, Tribes and nonprofits through federal, state and foundation grants.
