The U.S. Department of the Interior\u2019s Office of Insular Affairs applauds and congratulates seven new graduates from the U.S. Virgin Islands who successfully completed the Executive Leadership Program. A virtual commencement honoring these current and future leaders in public service was held on Friday June 11, 2021.<\/p>\n
\u201cCongratulations on your completion of the Executive Leadership Program. You have now acquired new perspectives and the potential to help strengthen your government\u2019s institutions,\u201d said acting assistant secretary Nikolao Pula. \u201cWe look forward to working with each of you in advancing the success of the USVI\u2019s public sector to better serve the people of the Virgin Islands.\u201d <\/p>\n
Seven USVI participants joined 60 aspiring leaders from throughout the U.S. federal government to comprise the graduating cohort of 2020-2021. Meetings occurred virtually over the course of the past year engaging students in classroom instruction, individual and team assignments, executive interviews, as well as shadowing and developmental assignments to strengthen leadership skills. <\/p>\n
Since 2009, OIA has supported the participation of Virgin Islands middle-management leaders for a total of 26 who have completed the program. The USVI ELP was established to addresses challenges in attracting and retaining qualified individuals to work in core leadership functions. Participation is funded through the Office of Insular Affairs\u2019 Technical Assistance Program and administered by the Graduate School USA\u2019s Center for Leadership and Management. <\/p>\n
The 2020-2021 USVI Executive Leadership cohort members are:<\/p>\n
Erika Benjamin Callwood<\/strong> – USVI Territorial Emergency Management Agency<\/p>\n Tamar Corry<\/strong> – USVI Department of Finance <\/p>\n Esther Felix Donelly<\/strong> – USVI Department of Property and Procurement.\u00a0<\/p>\n Deviqua Parris<\/strong> – USVI Department of Property & Procurement<\/p>\n Kizma L. Petersen<\/strong> – USVI Department of Property and Procurement<\/p>\n Joy Wheatley <\/strong>– USVI Public Finance Authority<\/p>\n Wendy Wheeler – USVI Economic Development Authority The U.S. Department of the Interior\u2019s Office of Insular Affairs applauds and congratulates seven new…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":330352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1227,4354],"class_list":["post-346951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-oia","tag-usvi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAdditional information on the Executive Leadership Program and the Pacific & Virgin Islands Training Initiatives can be found online at https:\/\/pitiviti.org\/about-the-eldp. (PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"