Improving the Quality of Life Along the “LA-Ventura” Corridor

From Calabasas to Ventura, Highway 27 to Highway 33: the world famous Highway 101 winds through a dozen thriving communities. This “LA-Ventura” area, along the inner slopes of the Santa Monica Mountains, has one of the highest quality of life ratings in California and one of the lowest crime rates in the nation.

This area is also blessed with an excellent educational infrastructure and contains universities, colleges and other providers who can develop current leaders and cultivate future ones.

In 2003 speaker and author Jim Cathcart founded The 101 Leaders Institute to identify, encourage, develop and learn from the people in the Corridor who are making a difference through personal leadership.

Concept: The more Effective Leaders we produce in this region the better all of our lives will be.

Effective leaders are talented at leading themselves as well as leading others. They possess the ability to successfully lead meetings, deliver presentations, communicate persuasively, think strategically, organize effectively, and motivate powerfully. However, personal leadership skills are often lacking in many who hold leadership positions. This endangers organizations and individuals. Education and training are needed as is recognition. By publicly offering ongoing leadership training and celebrating the highly effective leaders across many disciplines those leaders will be encouraged to make further contributions and others will be inspired to follow their examples, thereby increasing the number of people who are making contributions in their various fields.

Process: Bring world class leadership training here to the 101 Corridor and connect all existing resources for leadership development that are already here.

By forming an ongoing alliance among the various providers of leadership education and publicly celebrating the joy and rewards of personal leadership more people will be motivated to step forward, access the learning and make personal contributions for the betterment of this region.

Strategy: Focus on the cultivation of Personal Leadership Skills.

To differentiate ourselves from other efforts to acknowledge community leaders and teach civic or corporate skills, 101 Leaders will emphasize the development and use of skills that transcend categories; communication, critical thinking, innovation, decision making, public speaking, leading meetings, organizing and managing projects, motivating yourself and others, selling your ideas, and managing resources and revenues. Actual application will be built into the training structures wherever practical. Emphasis will be placed on increasing ability rather than on knowledge alone.

The Summit: A key component of the 101 Leaders Institute is the Annual Leadership Summit. This event will be a combination of meetings, training, celebrations and expositions held at an upscale venue here in the 101 corridor. Inspiring speakers, panels, workshops and demonstrations will be provided for all who wish to cultivate more and better leaders.

Throughout the year 101 Leaders will be acknowledged publicly and privately in a variety of ways.

1. The 101 Leaders Yearbook, a perfect bound magazine-format book that lists the leaders and their profiles. This book will contain a comprehensive listing of all within the corridor who have been acknowledged and honored during the previous year. It will be distributed throughout the corridor. Within this publication will be leadership lessons and profiles of the educational resources in the region.

2. 101 Leadership Training,The Prosperity Seminars Masters Series:  this series of seminars, workshops, roundtables, speeches and learning resources will be structured by professional trainers and educators to provide specific skill development and inspiration to all who aspire to become future 101 Leaders. Training will be offered throughout the year and will include the resources of Colleges and Universities in the Corridor as well as using the leaders themselves as adjunct faculty.

3. Local Awards events, in each community its local leader recipients will be acknowledged by their friends and neighbors through existing community events. These will be supported and encouraged by 101 Leaders.

4. The 101 Leaders Press Fest, starting in conjunction with the Leadership Summit a press-junket event will be held to allow all media to have access to the alliance members and leaders. Specialty media as well as general interest publications will be welcomed. The goal is to position this area as a hot-bed of leadership talent and the resources for its development.

5. The Annual 101 Leaders Gala, this awards ceremony will be held in concert with the Leadership Summit. Honorees, their coworkers, employers, friends, families and interested others will gather to hear world class keynote speakers and to see all the recipients receive their Awards. Honorees will fit the 101 Leaders profile and be acknowledged for personal growth and achievement in a variety of categories.

6. Sponsorships, Advertising, Internships and Special Projects will be offered to allow everyone to benefit from the 101 Leaders initiatives.

7. 101 Leaders.com, this website is a news site, training resource and knowledge base of the information, people and the things they do to attain 101 status. This Learning Center will be linked to all the resources available to aspiring and existing 101 Leaders. It will also be our digital press office with information on all aspects of the institute and the recipients. Alumni of 101 Leaders will have their own portion of the website for continuing communication and growth. Members of the 101 Leaders Alliance will also have their own website at 101 Leaders.org for continuing communication and coordination.

Vision

To develop the 101 Corridor into a hot-bed for leadership development, much as the famed Silicon Valley became a hot-bed for technological development. The Alliance will establish collaboration among area colleges & universities, public school leaders, civic leaders, government leaders, non-profit organizations, charities, business and social groups, religious groups, citizens groups and more. The Alliance will hold conferences, symposia, roundtables and other events to cultivate a common sense of investment in the cultivation of leaders at all levels of society. A major goal is to align the varied resources and efforts into a powerful stream of support and cultivation for any and all aspiring to lead.

Jim Cathcart, Founder

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Jim Cathcart, CSP, CPAE is the founder and President of Cathcart Institute, Inc. and an advisor to the Schools of Business at Pepperdine University and California Lutheran University. He is one of the most widely recognized professional speakers in the world. As the author of 15 books and scores of recorded programs, his students number in the hundreds of thousands. He is a past president of the National Speakers Association (NSA), winner of the Cavett Award, member of the Speaker Hall of Fame (CPAE), Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), a member of the exclusive Speakers Roundtable, 20 of the world’s top speakers, and, in the year 2001, recipient of the Golden Gavel Award from Toastmasters International.

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Improving the Quality of Life Along the “LA-Ventura” Corridor
From Calabasas to Ventura, Highway 27 to Highway 33: the world famous Highway 101 winds through a dozen thriving communities. This “LA-Ventura” area, along the inner slopes of the Santa Monica Mountains, has one of the highest quality of life ratings in California and one of the lowest crime rates in the nation.
This area is also blessed with an excellent educational infrastructure and contains universities, colleges and other providers who can develop current leaders and cultivate future ones.
In 2003 speaker and author Jim Cathcart founded The 101 Leaders Institute to identify, encourage, develop and learn from the people in the Corridor who are making a difference through personal leadership.
Concept: Effective leaders are talented at leading themselves as well as leading others. They possess the ability to successfully lead meetings, deliver presentations, communicate persuasively, think strategically, organize effectively, and motivate powerfully. However, personal leadership skills are often lacking in many who hold leadership positions. This endangers organizations and individuals. Education and training are needed as is recognition. By publicly celebrating the highly effective leaders across many disciplines those leaders will be encouraged to make further contributions and others will be inspired to follow their examples, thereby increasing the number of people who are making contributions in their various fields.
Process: By forming an ongoing alliance among the various providers of leadership education and publicly celebrating the joy and rewards of personal leadership more people will be motivated to step forward, access the learning and make personal contributions for the betterment of this region.
Strategy: Focus on the cultivation of personal leadership skills. To differentiate ourselves from other efforts to acknowledge community leaders and teach civic or corporate skills, 101 Leaders will emphasize the development and use of skills that transcend categories; communication, critical thinking, innovation, decision making, public speaking, leading meetings, organizing and managing projects, motivating yourself and others, selling your ideas, and managing resources and revenues. Actual application will be built into the training structures wherever practical. Emphasis will be placed on increasing ability rather than on knowledge alone.
The Summit: A key component of the 101 Leaders Institute is the Annual Leadership Summit. This event will be a combination of meetings, training, celebrations and expositions held at an upscale venue here in the 101 corridor. Inspiring speakers, panels, workshops and demonstrations will be provided for all who wish to cultivate more and better leaders.
Throughout the year 101 Leaders will be acknowledged publicly and privately in a variety of ways.
1. The 101 Leaders Yearbook, a perfect bound magazine-format book that lists the leaders and their profiles. This book will contain a comprehensive listing of all within the corridor who have been acknowledged and honored during the previous year. It will be distributed throughout the corridor. Within this publication will be leadership lessons and profiles of the educational resources in the region.
2. 101 Leadership Training, this series of seminars, workshops, roundtables, speeches and learning resources will be structured by professional trainers and educators to provide specific skill development and inspiration to all who aspire to become future 101 Leaders. Training will be offered throughout the year and will include the resources of Colleges and Universities in the Corridor as well as using the leaders themselves as adjunct faculty.
3. Local Awards events, in each community its local leader recipients will be acknowledged by their friends and neighbors through existing community events. These will be supported and encouraged by 101 Leaders.
4. The 101 Leaders Press Fest, starting in 2007 in conjunction with the Leadership Summit a press-junket event will be held to allow all media to have access to the alliance members and leaders. Specialty media as well as general interest publications will be welcomed. The goal is to position this area as a hot-bed of leadership talent and the resources for its development.
5. The Annual 101 Leaders Gala, this awards ceremony will be held in concert with the Leadership Summit beginning in 2007. Honorees, their coworkers, employers, friends, families and interested others will gather to hear world class keynote speakers and to see all the recipients receive their Awards. Honorees will fit the 101 Leaders profile and be acknowledged for personal growth and achievement in a variety of categories.
6. Sponsorships, Advertising, Internships and Special Projects will be offered to allow everyone to benefit from the 101 Leaders initiatives.
7. 101 Leaders.com, this website is a knowledge base of the information, people and the things they do to attain 101 status. This Learning Center will be linked to all the resources available to aspiring and existing 101 Leaders. It will also be our digital press office with information on all aspects of the institute and the recipients. Alumni of 101 Leaders will have their own portion of the website for continuing communication and growth. Members of the 101 Leaders Alliance will also have their own website at 101 Leaders.org for continuing communication and coordination.