FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Noreen Kelly, 312.988.7562
HILLVIEW PARTNERS NETWORK SELECTED for KEY ROLE in CHICAGO
URBAN
LEAGUE’S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE for TOP ENTREPRENEURS
Sixteen Chicago Companies Awarded Executive Coaching and other Support Services from
Hillview Partners, Specialists in Strategic Situational Alignment for Leaders and their Teams
CHICAGO, Illinois,
Monday, October 15, 2007 (See 5 June 2009 Note Below in Red) — During a project launch
luncheon held at Chicago’s Museum
of Contemporary Art, Hillview Partners Network CEO John R. Dallas, Jr.
announced an agreement was signed and work has begun to support Chicago Urban League’s latest milestone in the League’s
acclaimed economic development initiative, projectNEXT. Through private-sector job creation and other significant
economic growth measurements, the League’s nextONE program is designed to further strengthen Chicago’s robust entrepreneurial economy.
For elevating to higher levels
of success 16 exemplary Chicago-based companies, Hillview is providing, under contract to the League, executive coaching leadership
and other business-building value. The 16 exceptionally promising Chicago businesses — selected from
over 150 applicants for this honor — will receive (without charge) professional services and peer-to-peer collegial
benefits of nextONE, the League’s intensive business growth empowerment program.
In announcing the agreement,
Dallas said, “Business leaders who qualified to participate
in the League’s nextONE program have been assigned, through Hillview, top-ranked executive coaches for customized one-on-one
developmental support. Hillview’s niche specialization in strategic situational alignment further
ensures the nextONE program clients will enjoy full advantage of business-building resources made available by the Chicago
Urban League’s Entrepreneurship Center. Executive coaching adds an extra measure of coordination
related to specific needs and opportunities of the 16 company leaders and the organizations they manage.”
John Dallas is formerly president and chief executive officer of Chicago Title Credit,
then a wholly owned subsidiary of Chicago Title and Trust. Before founding Hillview Partners, Dallas served as CEO of five companies based in Chicago, Fairfax,
VA, and New York.
He went on to say, “With over 33 years of frontline career perspective, I trust my words will ring loud and clear
when we salute the ground-breaking vision and determination of League president and CEO Cheryle R. Jackson and the League’s
courageous board of directors. Hillview is privileged and pleased to be one of many leading organizations
working in collaborative support of nextONE.”
Through
Chicago Urban League’s close collaboration with Northwestern
University’s Kellogg School of Management, nextONE program clients
will hear from distinguished Kellogg faculty fresh and time-honored best business thinking. To increase
potential for growth and profitability through better overall performance, nextONE company leaders will expand their need-to-know
knowledge base. There will be six monthly immersion sessions in Kellogg
School classrooms.
Carefully
selected financial advisors, including venture financing experts and accountants, add to nextONE’s impact.
Other valuable expertise has been incorporated into nextONE’s curriculum.
Executive coaches from Hillview
Partners will align the focus of nextONE company leaders in visualizing, designing, planning, and monitoring implementation
of their revitalized strategic growth plans. To accelerate development and profitability, executive coaches
will further ensure each leader’s actions are aligned with strategy; pursuing target markets, efficiencies, and profits.
BP,
Chase Bank, Fifth-Third Bank, and other forward-thinking providers of money and other considerable resources generously sponsor
nextONE. The League encourages other businesses and organizations of nearly any type to focus their attention,
money, and other resources on nextONE’s considerable upside potential for Chicago’s
overall economy. Inquiries are invited.
John
Dallas closed his luncheon remarks, “Chicago’s
all-important entrepreneurial economy can significantly benefit city-wide from the League’s exceptional nextONE initiative.
Effectively nextONE turbo-boosts profit potential for participating companies. Everyone in Chicago needs to keep top-of-mind how entrepreneurial ventures create new jobs, generate new wealth,
and increase Chicago’s tax base — all of which
enhance in many ways the quality-of-life in this area.
The uniqueness of the
nextONE program effectively raises the bar for what can and should be done to fully recognize and energize entrepreneurs who
are improving Chicago’s local, state, regional, national
and global economic impact. Chicago’s
entrepreneurs confront considerable obstacles, and nextONE is designed to address many formidable day-to-day business challenges.
Hillview Partners Network is greatly honored to play a central role
in the League’s worthy and highly innovative mission. Strongly I encourage all leaders in Chicago to watch closely, talk about, pitch-in, and otherwise wholeheartedly
support the League’s nextONE initiative. Chicago’s
economy needs this collaborative boost.”
(This contract was renewed and now runs through the 2010 program year.)
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Notes to media:
For additional information specifically
regarding nextONE, please contact Roderick K. Hawkins at Chicago Urban League (773) 451-3536, or mobile number (773) 892-5427.
To contact Hillview’s John
Dallas directly, please call (312) 643-8000.
