The Summit of Toastmasters Leadership

 

We join Toastmasters toward improving our public speaking skills, but many of us discover a greater benefit.  Toastmasters develops our leadership skills. 

Some of us join clubs with a leadership focus to discuss leadership and see it modelled.  Leadership Summit Toastmasters club, which meets the first Tuesday evening of the month is one of these clubs.

Pat Croal is a Leadership Summit founder (with Theo Black) and a Toastmasters International Presidents Award winner (with Keith Hardy).  A long-time hospital laboratory manager, she now oversees the Park-Nicollet Foundation.  As a leader, she models engagement and positivity.  The Summit, an annual event toward engaging new club members, is her idea.

Another Leadership Summit member, Harold Osmundson, is a member of the Toastmasters International Board of Directors.  I first met him eight years ago when he visited my club in his district leadership role.  When I volunteered as an area director back then, Harold volunteered to meet me at Mills Early Risers one Friday morning, where he exposed me to officer induction.  How do you become confident as an area director?  It helps if someone takes the time to get you to a meeting in your area before your term starts.  Harold models and often speaks of “servant leadership” and the Toastmaster core value of respect.  Harold is the featured speaker for “The Summit” on May 3, 2022, 6:30 pm, online.  Please join us!  https://691684.toastmastersclubs.org/