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YP Nashville Sage Award is now the Impact Award
Each year at the NELAs, the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce and YP Nashville honor one of Nashville's top leaders who has made a significant impact on Nashville's YP demographic.
Our city is enriched not only by our outstanding young professionals, but by the community leaders who have mentored and guided them.
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For the past three years, the YP Nashville Sage Award has been given to honor a community leader who, though outside the YP demographic, has shown a great deal of respect to YPs by working to positively impact the development of Nashville's young professionals and young professional organizations.
In 2010, this award will be renamed the Impact Award. Another local organization also presents Sage Awards, and we have decided to rename our award to eliminate any confusion in the marketplace and to recognize the impact that the recipient has made on the YP demographic.
Impact Award candidates are no longer among the YP demographic (40 years of age or older), but are community leaders who show a great deal of respect to YPs and have had a significant impact on the professional development of Nashville's YPs and YP organizations
All Impact Award candidates must have a nomination form submitted on their behalf in order to be considered. The NELA Steering Committee will determine a winner based on these nominations. The nomination process for the 2010 Impact Award will open in February or March 2010.
2009 YP Nashville Sage Award Winner:
Pat Collins
SESAC
Pat Collins is president and chief operating officer of SESAC, the nation's fastest-growing performing rights organization. He is recognized as one of the leading performing rights experts in the United States.
Throughout his career, Collins has been a staunch supporter of young professionals having a seat at the table, and always looks for ways to offer opportunity to rising stars. Collins has been one of the biggest supporters of Society of Leaders in Development (SOLID), a non-profit organization comprised of developing young music business professionals dedicated to improving the future success of the industry. SESAC employees have been consistent members of SOLID for the past five years, and they have also been active in numerous other nonprofit and leadership development organizations.
2008 YP Nashville Sage Award Winner:
Diane Hayes
Young Leaders Council
Diane Hayes has more than 30 years' experience in program development, special project management and event production. Since 1995, she has served as director of the Young Leaders Council, an organization that trains young professionals to serve on the boards of directors of nonprofits. She currently serves in leadership roles with Orchestra Nashville, Friends of Radnor Lake, Dismas, Inc. and the Mental Health Association of Middle Tennessee. She is a member of CABLE, the Tennessee Society of Association Executives, and is a graduate of Leadership Tennessee.
2007 YP Nashville Sage Award Winner:
Liz Allen Fey
Management Solutions Group, LLC
Liz Allen Fey's work with corporations, organizations and communities builds on her 15 years' management experience in human services, retail and food service. In the past few years, she has worked in health care, music, finance, manufacturing, architecture, government, construction and non-profits, as well as with communities. Fey's work ranges from conducting organizational assessments, writing curriculum and providing training, to coaching and mentoring executives and leaders, to facilitating both small and large groups. Fey is a trustee of the United Way of Nashville, is past president of the board of Book'em and a member of CABLE. She has served in an advisory capacity for such organizations as the Nashville Area Chamber and KraftCPAs. She is strategic planning chair for the Nashville League of Women Voters, and sits on the advisory board of All About Women. She is also a faculty member with FastTrac®, an entrepreneurial training program developed by the Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City.
2007 YP Nashville Sage Award Winner:
Debra Grimes
Management Solutions Group, LLC
Debra Grimes has held management positions in manufacturing, distribution, physician practice and non-profits. Grimes also served as a radioman in the U.S. Navy. In her role as a consultant, Grimes has worked with both organizations and individuals. She mentors and coaches businesses owners/managers and budding facilitators. She is a mentor trainer with the Institute of Cultural Affairs, and is the trainer and facilitator for the Nashville Emerging Leaders program, now in its sixth year. Grimes is a 2000-2001 graduate of Leadership Nashville. She has served on and led numerous non-profit boards and committees, including Court Appointed Special Advocates, Hands On Nashville, the Downtown Rotary, Watkins Park Centennial Project, Junior Achievement and Artists for Oasis. In her many volunteer roles, Grimes has received honors such as Volunteer of the Week (Oasis Center and The Tennessean, 1999); being nominated for the Mary Catherine Strobel City-wide Volunteer Award (2006) and the Women of Influence Award for Community Supporter (2007). Grimes holds a master's degree from Owen Graduate School of Business at Vanderbilt University and a B.S. in management from Cardinal Stritch University.
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