Empower and Excel: Cultivating your Professional Potential

Thursday, May 30, 2024

Networking: 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Program: 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

Location:

LCRA Redbud Center

3601 Lake Austin Blvd.

Austin, TX 78703

Empower and Excel: Cultivating your Professional Potential

This luncheon will include small group conversations facilitated by seasoned fundraising executives about professional development challenges and opportunities that include salary negotiation, career mapping, understanding how to take the next step in your career, and how to advocate for yourself throughout your career. Small group conversations will be followed by a panel discussion where speakers will answer the audience’s most burning questions. Attendees will leave empowered with the knowledge they need to advocate for themselves and their careers.

Speakers:

Aisha Gayle Turner, Esq., is the inaugural chief development officer at Start Early, where she is charged with providing leadership and strategic direction to meet the organization’s annual and multi-year private revenue and strategic goals. Start Early’s mission and vision is to close the opportunity gap and create more equitable early learning experiences for our youngest learners.
Most recently, Aisha served as the interim chief advancement officer for IDEA Public Schools, where she built and managed a team of fundraisers across the country, more than doubling IDEA’s regional fundraising growth. Aisha has worked in development for over 12 years, also serving in fundraising leadership roles at OneGoal and Teach For America.
Aisha holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University, a master’s degree in fine arts from Columbia University and a juris doctorate degree from Duke University School of Law. She is originally from New Jersey and has served on several boards that support early literacy efforts. She resides with her husband and two children in Austin, Texas where you can find her jogging (slowly), watching Top Chef or debating fiercely with her long-time book club.

Gregory Perrin:

Jackie Quintero Sekiguchi leads community affairs for Texas Mutual Insurance Company, where she's focused on creating a strategic corporate citizenship vision that maximizes Texas Mutual’s expertise to create impact across the state. In addition, she’s led Texas Mutual’s expansion of strategic philanthropy efforts, which has invested over $70 million in organizations focused on workforce development and safety training, supporting working families, and disaster relief and preparedness since 2016. The Texas Mutual community affairs team oversees the corporate citizenship strategy, strategic philanthropy initiatives, corporate sponsorships and employee engagement efforts for roughly 1,000 employees in 4 offices across the state.

Jackie has served as a board member with I Live Here I Give Here for nearly 7 years, chairing the organization and leading the transition of executive officers in 2023. When she’s not working, she’s spending time with her husband Jeff and their two young daughters, Madison and Harper. 

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