Youth, the elderly and everyone in between have much at stake in the Tampa Bay region's new economy going forward.
Watch and listen as four Tampa Bay area change leaders talk about understanding what motivates key stakeholders, calculating who has the most to gain and the most to lose, adding up the value proposition for the community to find what works best to affect positive change in communities.
The leaders -- Tom McLain of
BioFlorida and
Claro Scientific, Sean Davis of
Red Hawk Interactive, Tim Dutton of
SCOPE and the
Institute for the Ages in Sarasota and Stacie Blake of
Community Tampa Bay -- shared their experiences as influencers during 83 Degrees Media's "Not Your Average Speakers'' series
"Champions For Change'' on Nov. 17 at freeFall Theatre in St. Petersburg.
Additional video from the series can be found on YouTube filed on the
83 Degrees Media channel.
Join 83 Degrees for additional conversation online at
Facebook and
Twitter using hashtag #83degreesNYAS.
The event was made possible by funding support from
Tucker Hall. Additional sponsors included
White Book Agency,
Edit Suites, Gazelle Lab and
freeFall Theatre.
Diane Egner is publisher and managing editor at 83 Degrees Media. Comments? Contact 83 Degrees.
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Diane Egner is an award-winning journalist with four decades of experience writing about the Tampa Bay region. She is a member of
Leadership Florida and the Athena Society, and serves on the board of
The Institute for Research in Art (Graphicstudio, the Contemporary Art Museum, and USF’s Public Art Program) Community Advisory Council and the
StageWorks Theatre Advisory Council. A graduate of the University of Minnesota with a BA in journalism, she won the top statewide award for editorial writing from the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors while at
The Tampa Tribune and received special recognition by the Tampa Bay Association of Black Journalists for creative work as Content Director at
WUSF Public Broadcasting. Past accomplishments and community service include leadership positions with Awesome Tampa Bay, Arts Council of Hillsborough County, Alpha House of Tampa Bay, Florida Kinship Center, AIA Tampa Bay, Powerstories, and the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce. She lives in South Tampa, is the mother of two adult daughters and grandmother to two amazing grandchildren, and travels whenever possible with laptop in tow.