Professional Leadership Award
In 2010, NESEA launched the Professional Leadership Award, which is given annually to the person who typifies exemplary professional practice coupled with exceptional humanity.
Criteria
The recipient of this award:
- is regarded as a leader in his/her professional field and has made significant contributions. Their concepts and ideas change how we think about and perform our work.
- embodies methods of practice, and models aspects of being, that we aspire to ourselves.
- is a whole systems thinker incorporating a multi-disciplinary approach to practice.
- demonstrates the highest integrity and honesty.
- is immensely generous in sharing his/her knowledge, skill, and experience.
- is a person of great heart.
- is a clear thinker and communicator.
- has profound curiosity which extends the boundaries of our shared knowledge.
- is fully engaged with, and embodies the ideals of the NESEA community.
The recipient is someone we can hold out to say, "Here is why NESEA exists!"
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2011 Recipient(s)
In 2011, NESEA recognized Joseph Lstiburek and Betsy Pettit for their outstanding work.
2010 Inaugural Recipient
The inaugural recipient of the NESEA Professional Leadership Award is Terry Brennan, whose leadership and humanity have inspired the very criteria for this award. Terry, we thank you for your many contributions to NESEA, including your unforgettable role as emcee in the "My Favorite Tool" Contests of the late 1980s!
Many thanks to our committee chair, Chris Benedict, along with committee members David Panich, Brian Hayden, Caroline Petrovick, Jamie Wolf, and Marc Rosenbaum, for helping to establish the criteria and nomination process for this new NESEA award.