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STL Leaders Speak Out
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What qualities do you expect to see in a highly effective leader?
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| I think a highly effective leader has a lot of qualities. But certainly based on my experience with the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, I would say the number one quality that a leader is going to have in him, himself or herself is the ability to create a team and work with others. I have, through trial and error, found that I might want to lead. And as much as I love to lead and take the chamber in the direction I want it to go, if I don’t have the team with me-it is going nowhere. That has been a painful lesson for me to learn on many different occasions. To understand that leadership doesn’t just mean setting a vision. It means getting buy in of the vision from those who are instrumental in terms of working with you to get that buy in to make the vision happen, because if not then leadership turns into arrogance and that is a trap admittedly that I have fallen into sometimes in the past. I work really hard to tamp out and make leadership the garnering of other peoples talents to work with yours to create an environment.-Jorge Riopedre(1min.18 sec.) |
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Jorge Riopedre
Executive Director,
Casa de SaludClass of 2007-2008
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| Jorge Riopedre is the executive director of Casa de Salud, a health and wellness organization providing high quality care to the new immigrant community. He is the former executive director of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan St. Louis, for which he also served as Chairman and President from 2008-2009. A native of Tampa, Florida, Jorge came to St. Louis in 1992 to do television and radio work for the Jesuits. From 1995 to 2009, he owned and operated a media production company specializing in the Hispanic market. Jorge sits on the boards of HisPAC and the Catholic Academy for Communication Arts Professionals, and he serves on UMSL College of Arts & Sciences Leadership Council. He was appointed by former Missouri Governor Matt Blunt to the Hispanic Business, Culture & Trade Commission, and by current Governor Jay Nixon to the Missouri Complete Count Commission. Jorge was previously named a Minority Business Leader by the St. Louis Business Journal and received a national Business Achievement Award from the Service Corps of Retired Executives. |
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