LE celebrated its work throughout the region, recognized LE alumni and elected the 2022-2023 board of directors
EVANSVILLE, Ind., May 24, 2022 – Leadership Everyone (LE) reflected on another successful year of engaging with regional servant leaders and fostering community growth during its Annual Meeting on May 24, 2022. During the event, LE announced a new initiative to help its alumni better connect, engage, and serve the community. The effort will create pathways to help alumni, who represent the diversity of the region, use what they’ve learned from LE, connect to non-profits in our region, and, ultimately, make the community a better place.
Throughout the evening, LE reflected on the work accomplished in fiscal year 2021-2022 by its staff, volunteers, and board. Regional VOICE sessions reached Henderson, Gibson, Posey, Warrick, and Vanderburgh Counties; 122 servant leaders were nominated for the 27th Annual Celebration of Leadership; and people from across the region attended one of two Community Leadership Programs at the Barn Abbey in New Harmony.
LE Board Members Jack Faber of Hafer and Kevin Spindler of Toyota received the Alumnus of the Year Awards. According to LE CEO Lynn Miller Pease, Faber and Spindler use their unique strengths and talents to make a difference. “Jack and Kevin represent everything amazing about Leadership Everyone alumni. Their talents, perspectives, and how they learn are completely different, and yet they’re both incredibly effective in leading LE through the challenges of the pandemic and bringing the five counties together through Regional VOICE. LE would not be what we are and who we are for this region without these two gentlemen,” said Miller Pease.
Jack Faber and a team of local architects donated countless hours to attend each two-hour VOICE session to create sketches capturing the participants’ visions. Faber took the lead role in recording the architectural renderings, ensuring that the collective visions could be easily viewed on the VOICE website.
Kevin Spindler was not only integral to the first phase of VOICE in 2012 (Evansville VOICE), serving as a skilled project manager guiding projects from idea to completion, but also a key volunteer bringing Regional VOICE to Gibson County. Through his many years on the board, Spindler helped connect LE to Toyota’s talented people and secure key financial support for LE.
The event also served to recognize the 2021-2022 Community Leadership Program graduates and elect new officers and 11 new Board Members for the 2022-23 fiscal year.
NEW LE ALUMNI 2021-2022
October 2021
Danielle Anguish, Henderson County Public Library
Farha Ansari, MetroNet
Wasi Ansari, Community Volunteer
Deijanna Butler, Ivy Tech Community College
Jeff Duncan, Warehouse Services
Vanessa Fritz, Ivy Tech Community College
Kyle Fuller, Field & Main
Beth Heil, EVPL
Theodore Jackson, Old National Bank
Kathryn Johnson, YMCA of Southwestern IN
Paige Jones, Evansville Fire Department
Uday Kanetkar, SABIC
Josi Kauffman, AstraZeneca
Gabrielle Kempf, Crane Federal Credit Union
Andrea Lantz, What Matters Most? Evansville, Inc.
Mallory Martin, Ascension St Vincent Evansville
William Monsour, Evansville Teachers Federal Credit Union
Dominic Poggi, Southwest Indiana Small Business Development Center
Ashley Riester, E-REP
Jeremy Seger, Redeemer Lutheran Church
Bianca Snyder, Embolden Inc.
Grace Walker, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwestern Indiana
Susan Washburn, Granted
Carlie Whitledge, Landmark Realty
Sara Worstell, Grow Southwest Indiana Workforce Board
Lane Young, Evansville Water and Sewer Utility
February 2022
Corey Chipps, AstraZeneca
Shelli Conaway, Trucks with Room to Spare, Inc.
Danielle Dart, Deaconess Health System
Bryan Diehl, IBEW Local 16
Craig Duke, Community Volunteer
Kyle Gorman, Evansville Rescue Mission
Taylor Gorman, Evansville Rescue Mission
Dempson Haney, Hafer
Matt Hoon, Bowen Engineering
Stacey Ingram, Toyota Motor Manufacturing of Indiana
Lori Kendrick, Deaconess Health System
Gina Minnette, Keller Schroeder
Evelyn Rivas, Ivy Tech Community College
Carrie Rudolph, Keller Schroeder
Christen Schmitt, Anchor Industries
Daniel Schnur, Ascension St Vincent
Kaitlyn Schrank, YMCA of Southwestern IN
Jeffrey Sowell, SIMA
Tyler Stock, Junior Achievement of Southwestern Indiana
Noah Stubbs, City of Evansville Mayor’s Office
Reina Taveras, Ivy Tech Community College
Hannah Wehr, Community One
Sean Welcher, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwestern Indiana
Bert Wheat, MJM
Savannah Wood, ECHO Housing
Marcia Yurks, AstraZeneca
Jim Zaher, Target
BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2022-2023
Executive Board Officers
President: Lawrence Taylor, Edward Jones
President-Elect: Beth Kroft, CenterPoint Energy
Vice President: Kelly Cozart, Ivy Tech Community College
Secretary: Jessica Welcher, Deaconess Health System
Treasurer: Jerry Graupner, United Companies
Director-at-Large: Amie Roach, Lochmueller Group
Past President: Alex Schmitt, Schmitt Law Office
First-Term Appointments
Jeff Duncan, Warehouse Services
Taylor Gorman, Evansville Rescue Mission
Dempson Haney, Hafer
Karese Johnson, YMCA of Southwestern IN
Chris Metz, ECHO Housing Corporation
Jenna Richardt, E-REP
Amie Roach, Lochmueller Group
Jason Rutledge, Equipment Depot
Noah Stubbs, City of Evansville Mayor’s Office
Deanna Tackett, Toyota Motor Manufacturing of Indiana
Carlie Whitledge, Landmark Realty
Continuing Current Terms
Leslie Fella, Evansville Regional Airport; Hannah Jaramillo, Morton Solar; Keith Rawley, AstraZeneca; Jaimie Sheth, JD Sheth Foundation; Amy Susott, Heritage Federal Credit Union; Charles Sutton, EVPL; Tasha Vanover, CenterPoint Energy; Susan Vaughn, Community Volunteer; and Holly Rankin Zaher, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Honorary Directors – Ryan Hatfield, Indiana State Representative; Court Kull, PNC Bank; and Mayor Lloyd Winnecke, City of Evansville
Departing Members
Mary Allen, Sixth and Zero; Amy Bouchie, New Horizons Financial Consultants; Don Crankshaw, Crankshaw Consulting; Jack Faber, Hafer; David Goffinet, Lochmueller Group; Erin Lewis, University of Evansville; Sara Rupp, Old National Bank; Kevin Spindler, Toyota Motor Manufacturing of Indiana; and Kelsey Wright, EVSC
Nominating Committee 2022-2023
Kathy Boyd, Boyd Electric; Abraham Brown, El Informador Latino and La Campirana; Don Crankshaw, Crankshaw Consulting; Jared McIntosh, Fifth Third Bank; Alex Schmitt, Schmitt Law Office; Lawrance Taylor, Edward Jones; and Otha Warren, North Park Corporation
About Leadership Everyone
Diverse Servant Leaders Transforming Community
Leadership Everyone (LE) was founded in 1976 by a group of future-thinking local leaders, whose original commitment to community-wide betterment remains unique and strong. LE brings together people with different talents, gifts, and perspectives and transforms these individuals into leaders who embrace the concept of community trusteeship and the collaborative process. These attitudes, skills, and processes are taught to adults, youth, organizations, not-for-profits, businesses, educational institutions, neighborhood associations, churches, and other leadership programs. Learn more about LE’s work at leadershipeveryone.org. Connect with LE on Facebook @leadershipeveryone; LinkedIn at Leadership Everyone, Inc.; Instagram at leadershipeveryone; and Twitter at leadershipevv.
About Regional VOICE
Regional VOICE is a community visioning effort to bring together diverse groups of people to envision and enact a preferred future for the five-county region: Gibson, Henderson, Posey, Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties. The collective visions establish community priorities to feed into local and regional planning and development initiatives for immediate, mid-range, and long-term projects. Learn more about VOICE at voicecommunity.org. Follow Regional VOICE on Facebook at RegionalVOICEcommunity and Instagram at regionalvoice.