b'From the Board Chair and Vice ChairCongratulations to the 2025 Leadership Maryland Executiveand Emerging Leader Classes!A Special Place in Leadership Marylands HistoryThe 2025 Leadership Maryland Executive and Emerging Leader Classes stand out in remarkable ways . This year marks the second cohort of the newly established Emerging Leader Program, as well as the second cohort under the renamed Executive Program. Notably, these programs are the first to share a FacilitatorDaniellea testament to LMDs innovative spirit and evolution.These distinctions make you, this years class members, truly unique . Yet, what makes you especially meaningful to us and the rest of the current Board leadership is that your classes represent the final classes under our tenure as LMD Board Chair and Vice Chair . It is a deep honor to witness and celebrate your graduation .Miriam MindyThe Call to Leadership Lehman 14 (LM)Graduates are entrusted with a profound responsibility: to venture into the world and accomplish significant2025 Board Chairachievements, following in the footsteps of many accomplished Leadership Maryland alumni . The guiding principle, To whom much is given, much is required, frames the ethical expectations for those who lead . This statement underscores the responsibility leaders carry when entrusted with influence, resources, or authority . Leaders must act with integrity, transparency, and a commitment to the greater good . Living Leadership ValuesAlumni of the Executive Program are freshly empowered to practice this responsibility through their actions . Emerging Leaders have embraced it and have risen to the challenge of using this LMD power .Inspiring Unity and ProgressYou have been equipped to view issues from multiple perspectives and to offer creative, unbiased solutions . This mindset is particularly crucial during challenging times . Our world has become more polarized than ever before.You are the people that bring us back together and find a new way forward.As Governor Wes Moore says, Leave No One Behind . We believe in you . Go forth and do great things! Rhea L. Harris, Esq. 13 (LM)2025 Board Vice ChairYours in Leadership,Miriam Mindy Lehman 14 (LM)Rhea L . Harris, Esq . 13 (LM)2025 Board Chair2025 Board Vice Chair4Leadership Maryland 2025'