GROW YOUR LEADERSHIP SKILLS WITH FPRA
LeadershipFPRA is a selective, high-level professional development program created to help FPRA members strengthen their leadership skills. Inspired by programs like Leadership Tampa and Leadership Florida, it equips participants to lead within their workplaces, communities, and the association itself. Open to just 21 members each year, the program includes six sessions featuring expert speakers from sectors like government, ethics, education, business, and finance. It begins and ends at FPRA’s PR & Comms Summit and includes sessions aligned with key FPRA events, including the Winter Symposium and Florida’s legislative session in Tallahassee. Regardless of how new you are to the business or how long you may have practiced, this program will help you hone leadership skills good for a lifetime.
Apply for a 2025 Teri Hansen InsPiRe Scholarship to LeadershipFPRA
In honor of Teri Hansen, APR, a founding member of the Southwest Florida Chapter of FPRA, whose dedication, vision, and passion have shaped our chapter’s success over the past 40 years, the Southwest Florida Chapter of the Florida Public Relations Association establishes The Teri Hansen “inSPiRe Scholarship.”
This scholarship celebrates Teri’s enduring legacy of professional excellence and her unwavering commitment to inspiring others. By supporting chapter members in their pursuit of growth through the PR & Communications Summit or Leadership FPRA, this award reflects Teri’s belief in the power of education, leadership, and service.
More about LeadershipFPRA
Class size is limited to 21, so applications are competitive. The LeadershipFPRA Selection Committee will review all applications and choose the most qualified applicants. And while the Selection Committee is evaluating individual applications, it is also charged with building a class that represents diversity—professionally and geographically, as well as in the areas of age, race, gender and ethnicity.
Once selected, each class member will receive a LeadershipFPRA orientation the day prior to the start of Annual Conference, followed by five seminar-styled leadership training classes from a faculty of some of the most accomplished professionals in the state. The curriculum is challenging, and participants are required to attend the orientation, graduation and four of the five independent classes of the program instruction. Graduation will be held the evening prior to next year’s Annual Conference.
Graduates of the LeadershipFPRA program will be better equipped to not only function as PR professionals in their respective workplaces, but also strengthen their rightful seat at the boardroom table and to evolve into further leadership roles in FPRA, their communities and the industry in general.
For more information visit the official LeadershipFPRA page.
Congratulations to the Southwest Florida chapter’s two 2019-2020 Leadership FPRA class members, Carla Brantley and Krysta Kryszczak!