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Leadership Rhode Island to Receive Excellence in Public Service Award

Leadership Rhode Island (LRI) is pleased to announce that Common Cause RI has chosen the organization to receive the 2013 Excellence in Public Service.
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Leadership Rhode Island wins national innovation award

The award recognizes outstanding innovation in leadership programs that are creative, unique and impactful.
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Five Questions With Mike Ritz

Mike Ritz (LRI '07) has been the executive director of Leadership Rhode Island since 2009, after serving two years on the organization’s board of governors.
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Q-and-A With Leadership Rhode Island’s Mike Ritz

He was once an interrogator for the military, but now he’s inspiring people from all over Rhode Island to open up and talk about issues in the state.
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Rhode Island Wants to Be the First “Strengths-Based State”

Gallup found that Rhode Island had the sixth lowest percentage of engaged employees in the nation. Engaged workers are involved in and enthusiastic about their work. They are passionate and creative, and their enthusiasm fuels growth and innovation.

To attack this problem, LRI embarked on a multiyear initiative to boost engagement in Rhode Island workplaces. Ritz says the organization uses the Clifton StrengthsFinder (CSF) as a tool to strengthen engagement and enable Rhode Island to be the first strengths-based state in the country.
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Celebrating and Developing the Strengths of ‘The Greatest Lil’ State on Earth’

Nearly 1,000 leaders from across the state of Rhode Island recently attended an event billed as “the first statewide strengths-based event ever,” the next step in Leadership Rhode Island’s strategy to improve life for Rhode Islanders.
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Leadership RI opens path to Rocky Point history

As the old song lyric goes, “Sign, sign, everywhere a sign,” and thanks to an ambitious project by Leadership Rhode Island, historic informational signs will soon be constructed throughout Rocky Point Park.
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Rhode Island Non-Profit of the Year 2014

Leadership. It's been a major theme of 2014, from campaigns to community needs. With Rhode Island consistently ranked at the bottom of business and economic rankings, discussions center around how leaders can pull the state out of its current position move it forward.

Now in its 33rd year, LeadershipRI continues to both train future leaders, and have an impact on a wide range of Rhode Islanders. Just who has come out of the leadership training program in the state?
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Struggling Rhode Island city seeks to revialize itself by selling historical chocolate bar

Mike Ritz (LRI '07) said his chocolate bar project — separate from plans for the park — is part of a broader effort at Leadership Rhode Island to help revitalize Central Falls.
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Leadership Rhode Island class debates pros, cons of Constitutional Convention

They debated in the committee rooms and again on the House floor. Had it all been real, the votes they took would have sent three high-profile issues to the ballot for voters to decide in November.