Young Leaders Program – Ignite 2024

The Young Leaders Program provides comprehensive support to Greenhouse Alumni in the first decade of their careers and post-college lives. Through the Young Leaders Program, we work together to implement actionable ideas, change, and community initiatives.

The 3rd annual Ignite conference was held over 3 days where alumni in the Young Leaders Program heard from exceptional industry leaders, participate in leadership, professional, personal, and community change panels and workshops, and connected with each other and the Greenhouse community for relationship-building, collaboration, and learning. 44 alumni in the Young Leaders program attended Ignite this year from 8 class years and 10 states.

2024 Ignite Speaker Lineup

Welcome + Leadership Session

Pete Burridge
Founder & CEO, Greenhouse Partners, Greenhouse Scholars, The18.com

Pete delivered the keynote Ignite welcome and led a leadership workshop to inspire participants to lead with purpose, empathy, and integrity in their personal and professional endeavors.

Relationship + Team Building Session

Brittany Charboneau
AKA the Funny Runner

Brittany used the basic principles of improv comedy and her experience as a professional athlete to help alumni with things like working as a team, stopping overthinking, getting inspired, practicing patience, getting into your body, managing nerves, and owning your weird!

Personal Session

Jamie Logan
Founder + CEO J Logan Architects

Jamie showed a screening of a new film festival submission about her and presented and lead a discussion on “Allow Yourself to Be Yourself.”

Community Change Session

Presentation and Greenhouse community-led workshops providing the strategic thinking for community impact projects on the topics of healthcare, housing, education, poverty, and food insecurity.

Workshop Facilitators:

  • Tinisha Dorsey, Senior Principal, Central Zone Leader – Mercer LAD Practice Mercer
  • Keith Greenawalt, Founder, Keith Greenawalt Consulting
  • Richard Maez (Greenhouse Alum), Deputy Director, Ednium: The Alumni Collective
  • Andrew Smiles, Founder, StepChange Partners
  • Jamie Clay, Young Leaders and Whole Community Programs Director, Greenhouse

Outdoor Activity

Alumni took a break from the indoor sessions and headed outdoors to beautiful Chautauqua Park to breathe, move, and reflect.

Activity Facilitators:

Professional Session

Attendees enjoyed a panel and small breakout groups to take on the finance, operations, marketing/customer experience, and culture challenges and opportunities that present themselves regardless of vocation.

Panelists: