Breaking Barriers and Creating Community Change
March 17, 2024 - Amanda Guinot Talbot, PhD.
Leave it to two powerful Spartan women leaders to break barriers, not for personal gain, but with the community’s good at the forefront. I saw this firsthand on February 20th when I attended a press conference held at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Michigan.
The announcement brought together Sparrow Hospital and MSUFCU and, importantly for me, two leaders I look up to: Margaret Dimond, President of U-M Health Regional Network (Sparrow), and April Clobes, President and CEO of MSUFCU and CEO of Reseda Group. Margaret and April are close friends and supporters of the Women’s Leadership Institute (WLI), with Margaret a founder of the institute and executive board member and April a regular speaker and attendee. Together, they led the way in forming a partnership to serve medical professionals, patients, and the larger community better.
This year, the WLI is focusing on healthy leadership. Sparrow and MSUFCU and their respective leaders represent healthy leaders of corporations committed to healthy communities offering quality mental and physical health care and necessary financial health and well-being.
Read more about this partnership: https://www.msufcu.org/press_releases/
Look for more information on a presentation by Margaret, April and Tiffany Ford, President and CEO of University of Michigan Credit Union, for the MSU Women’s Leadership Institute (WLI) spring capstone event on April 4th, 2024.
About the Author
Amanda Guinot Talbot, PhD
Director, Women’s Leadership Institute
Mason-Soneral Faculty Fellow, Women’s Leadership Institute
Director of Undergraduate Education and Assistant Professor, HDFS
Dr. Amanda Guinot Talbot is the director of undergraduate education and an assistant professor in MSU’s Department of Human Development and Family Studies. As the Women’s Leadership Institute director Dr. Guinot Talbot works on institute programming, curricula, and student engagement. Dr. Guinot Talbot also is a co-administrator of the financial literacy educational campaigns at MSU (Go for the Green). She received her master’s degree in Family Studies and Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies from Michigan State University.