Join us and our Speaker, Althea Luehrsen, Executive Director of Leadership Buffalo, as she shares with us helpful ideas on networking and it's importance in today's business world. After Althea's presentation, there will be round table discussions to experiment and implement networking techniques with each other.
Althea became the 4th Executive Director of Leadership Buffalo on January 2, 2012. Prior to her appointment to Leadership Buffalo, she was at the University at Buffalo since 2001 and held positions as the Executive Director of UB’s Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and Assistant Vice President for Corporate and Foundation Relations.
Ms. Luehrsen holds an extensive background in business and leadership that include management positions within the University at Buffalo, Abbott Laboratories, and Marriott Corporation. In addition to spending the last several years in higher education, her expertise encompasses sales, marketing, strategic planning and entrepreneurship with the latter being gained through directing the center and as the owner of three Western New York businesses.
In addition to her work at the University, Ms. Luehrsen is the President/Owner of Strategic Solutions Group specializing in strategic plan facilitation and small business consulting. Past clients include the UB Alumni Association, National Federation for Just Communities (NFJC), Amherst Senior citizens Foundation, The Buffalo Zoological Society, Allpro Parking, LLC and the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership.