Throughout its history, Leadership Burbank’s nine-month premiere leadership program has been facilitated by skilled professionals in leadership development with guest speakers and facilitators from some of most talented local and regional experts in business, community building, education, charitable work, and the entertainment industry. Each class benefits from a slightly different focus of leadership development and civic engagement due to the commitment of the Board of Directors to keep this program relevant to today’s leadership issues, skillsets, and solutions.
Over the more recent fourteen years, Leadership Burbank’s beloved facilitators, Mary Alvord and Sue Georgino, created a curriculum program that was challenging, inspiring, and based in discovering values based leadership, both for each class member as well as in a group dynamic. Leadership Burbank is grateful to their leadership and passion for our mission, impacting the lives of over 300 of our alumni.
During the 2024-2025 class session, the nine-month program will take a slightly new approach, keeping the leadership development at its core as well as maintaining the exciting access to a behind the scenes look at Burbank’s finest. Facilitators for these class sessions will call on leaders who are critical to Burbank, as well as regional experts and guest speakers.
During the course of the Leadership Burbank nine-month program, class members will also meet with and learn from experts at these exciting Burbank destinations:
- The City of Burbank
- Providence St. Joseph Medical Center
- Hollywood Burbank Airport
- Warner Bros. Discovery
- Burbank Chamber of Commerce
- Worthe Real Estate Group
- Nickelodeon Animation Studios
- The YMCA of Burbank
- and more!
For the leadership development curriculum, Leadership Burbank is calling on one of its best business strategy, leadership, and communication firms: McIntyre & St. Clair. Partners, Janet and Don, are trusted advisors in strategy, leadership coaching, and communication. With their academic training and practical experience, they’re experts in strengthening people and the places where people work. They work with organizations of all sizes in the government, economic development, nonprofit, health care, and business sectors.
Here is the team:
Here’s a little about Janet McIntyre:
Janet, the managing partner at McIntyre & St. Clair LLC, is a strategy, leadership, and communication consultant who works with nonprofit, government, health care, and business clients across the United States. She has expertise in:
- Strategy development and execution
- Leadership development, coaching, and mentoring
- Retreat and meeting facilitation
- Communication
A former journalist, she has written 17 books for the health care industry and more than 750 academic and consumer articles.
Prior to founding McIntyre & St. Clair, Janet was the media relations manager for the Joint Commission, serving as chief spokesperson and working with the executive team and board of trustees to cultivate relationships with national media, manage crisis communication, and pitch story ideas to the media. As a newspaper reporter, she covered education, courts/law enforcement, and politics, including the Republican National Convention. She taught communication, group dynamics, and conflict resolution at the graduate level in a master of organizational leadership program. Janet served on the board and executive committee of the Burbank Chamber of Commerce.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a master’s degree in organizational leadership.
Here is a little about Don St. Clair, Ed.D:
Don St. Clair, partner at McIntyre & St. Clair, is a strategy, leadership, and communication consultant who works with nonprofit, government, and small businesses. He has expertise in:
- Strategy creation and execution
- Leadership development
- Nonprofit capacity building
- Innovation
Don served in senior executive posts at universities in Indiana, Illinois, and California, including the Indiana Institute of Technology, Lewis University, and Woodbury University. His career in higher education included significant work in Asia, Europe, South America, and the Middle East. Don was a founding faculty member of the organizational leadership department at Woodbury University (CA) and facilitated graduate courses in leadership, innovation, organizational change, emotional intelligence, conflict resolution, and communication. He holds a doctorate in organizational leadership from Pepperdine University.
Don’s leadership role in greater Los Angeles included serving as board chair of the Los Angeles Business Federation (BizFed), an alliance of 145 business groups representing 250,000-plus employers. During his time as board chair of VEDC, the premiere community development financial institution (CDFI) in the United States, the organization increased its balance sheet five-fold and expanded from Southern California to Chicago, New York, and Nevada. He also served as chair of the board of the Nevada Microenterprise Initiative, served on the board of the Valley Industry and Commerce Association (VICA), and is past chair of the board of the Burbank Chamber of Commerce. Don was chair of the Burbank YMCA and served on the finance committee of the board of Providence Health and Services.
Thank you to Mary and Sue!
Leadership Burbank will forever be grateful to Mary Alvord and Sue Georgino for contributing greatly to the Burbank community throughout their long and successful careers, and for believing in and supporting the City’s future leaders. Thank you Mary and Sue!
