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Wednesday, July 28, 2021LSMV Agriculture Topic Day highlights Industry’s deep rooted history and innovative future
Leadership Santa Maria Valley Class of 2021 hosted its Agricultural Topic day on July 9, 2021, bringing together the area’s top leaders to discuss Agriculture and the new and exciting ways their organizations are leading the way in innovation and labor. The day began with Angelica Gutierrez with guests Lorena Chavez and Jason Sharrett. Angelica is a project manager with L & G Farms inc. With L & G Farms employing a large number of people providing famous Santa Maria Valley Strawberries, a current pulse
Wednesday, July 07, 2021Leadership Santa Maria Valley Learns About Public Safety and Justice
“Who knows what Diversion is?” It was the very first question of our Public Safety and Justice topic day on Friday, June 4th 2021 and none of us knew the answer. Deputy District Attorney John Savrnoch was able to share with the 20 leadership members in the room how the district attorney's office plays a huge role in triaging and guiding those who have committed crimes into diversion programs that are meant to help guide them in a positive and healing direction. “It’s a complicated web. But I enjoy every
Thursday, June 03, 2021Leadership Santa Maria Valley: Keep Green Clean!
Leadership Santa Maria Valley Class of 2021 hosted its Sustainability and Natural Resources topic discussion on May 7th, gathering some of the Valley’s most prominent leaders to discuss the new and innovative ways their organizations are taking the lead on building a cleaner and more sustainable future. The day began with co-founder and current vice-president of Santa Maria Energy, Ramon Elias. Mr. Elias educated the class on the rich history and importance of oil production in the Santa Maria Valley,
Friday, April 30, 2021Leadership Santa Maria Valley: Class of 2021 has begun!!
One of the challenges of the pandemic has been how do we continue to offer our Leadership program given the current restrictions? Our Leadership board of directors had many discussions and suggestions and we came up with a way to offer a quality program that will flex with whatever the recommendations and restrictions are for Santa Barbara County. There are sixteen members of the 2021 class. We held our three-day retreat virtually in mid-March. Activities that could not be done in a virtual environment
Thursday, April 01, 2021Leadership Santa Maria Valley Unveils Mobile Observatory
Leadership Santa Maria Valley Class of 2020 recently celebrated the completion of their Legacy Project, a Mobile Observatory, with an unveiling ceremony at Allan Hancock College. "We chose the Mobile Observatory because space and stargazing can open so many doors," explained Leadership class member Emily Kitts. "It's such a fascinating subject to study, and the Observatory can be a way to make that real-life connection for kids who may be interested in STEM, or astronomy. Even if it's not a subject
Monday, February 01, 2021Leadership Santa Maria Valley Adapts for Class of 2021
Leadership Santa Maria Valley is looking for candidates for their 2021 class. The 10 month program is designed to build leaders in the Santa Maria Valley community, give class members opportunities to network and to learn more about local business industries. With COVID-19, this year’s program has made some adjustment to still provide a valuable experience for the class. The program will kick off in March with a retreat, where class members get a chance to get to know one another better and learn more
Thursday, January 07, 2021Leadership Santa Maria Valley Publishes Bilingual Children's Book, ''Strawberry Moon Says, Goodnight''
Leadership Santa Maria Valley Class of 2020 (a program of the Santa Maria Valley Chamber of Commerce) recently completed 1 of 2 Legacy Projects. Amidst a global pandemic, their class not only built a mobile observatory, which will be ready to unveil in January, but they also wrote a bilingual children's book, Strawberry Moon Says, Goodnight, as their second Legacy Project. With our incredible community's help, they successfully held an art contest to find talented students to illustrate the book. Twenty
Tuesday, December 08, 2020Leadership Santa Maria Valley Accepting Applications for 2021 Class
Leadership Santa Maria Valley is currently accepting applications for the Class of 2021. This will be our 26th year serving our Community and preparing future Community Leaders! To date, we have over 400 graduates from our program which began in 1995. Interviews will be held in February and March with our Candidate Orientation and Kick-Off Retreat scheduled for March 2021. Why should you consider Leadership Santa Maria Valley? Are you looking for a way to get more involved in the community? Do you want to
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Wednesday, September 30, 2020A Big Thank You to Leadership Santa Maria Valley Class of 2020 Sponsors
Leadership Santa Maria Valley, Class of 2020, would like to thank all of our sponsors that have helped us reach this point in this year’s Legacy project. These projects, a mobile observatory, and bilingual children’s book will be remembered for years to come as having been completed during a pandemic. We are now on the final stretch to finish the build of the mobile observatory. On Sept 19th, we were lucky enough to participate in an inaugural COVID-Safe stargazing event at Los Flores Ranch Park (LFRP).
Wednesday, September 02, 2020Leadership Santa Maria Valley Needs Your Support!
Leadership Santa Maria Valley continues to work on their two community projects - a mobile observatory and a children’s book - and they need your support! The class still has a need for donations in terms of labor, expertise, and finances. Partly due to the COVID19 situation, it has become much more difficult for the class to reach and persuade students to participate and follow through on the art contest they set up for their Children's book. What would have entailed visiting school teachers and
Monday, August 03, 2020Leadership Santa Maria Valley Graduates Class of 2020
The Santa Maria Valley Chamber is proud to announce the graduation of the 25th Leadership Class. This class began with a retreat last August and then started their day-long topic days with a tour of Vandenberg Air Force Base in September. The usual format of Leadership Santa Maria Valley (LSMV) is to have 10 topic days where the class hears speakers and takes tours around a specific business sector each month. However, like so many other things in 2020, that format had to change in April due to the
Monday, August 03, 2020Local Youth Needed to Illustrate Leadership Santa Maria Valley's Children's Book!
Leadership Santa Maria Valley Class of 2020 has authored a bilingual children’s book called, Strawberry Moon Says, Goodnight, as one of our Legacy Projects. We want to highlight the talent in the Santa Maria Valley and have agreed the book should be illustrated by kids in our community. We have been hosting an art contest with 4th through 12th graders through the generous efforts of Allan Hancock College, City of Santa Maria Recreation and Parks and several other organizations. With those efforts, we have
