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Leadership Shiawassee Winter Luncheon
Michigan’s Defining Moment
Guest Speaker Phil Power, Founder, Center for Michigan
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
Baker College of Owosso Welcome Center Ballroom
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
L.S. Alumni $15.00 Community Members $20.00
 For
nearly forty years, Philip H. Power was founder, owner and chairman of the board
of HomeTown Communications Network, Inc., a group of 62 community newspapers and
24 telephone directories throughout Michigan and around Cincinnati, Ohio.
In January 2006 Mr. Power founded The Center for Michigan, a think-and-do tank
aimed at improving the policy and political environment in
Michigan by developing a series of very far-reaching, broadly acceptable reforms
in taxing, spending and the priorities of state government.
The Center is developing a public engagement
campaign, Michigan’s Defining Moment, that will by the end of 2010 engage
several thousand Michigan leaders and citizens in community conversations and
ignite a citizen movement for change.
From 1983 to 1990, Mr. Power chaired the Michigan Job Training Coordinating
Council and was a primary advisor to Governor Blanchard on human investment and
job training. In 2000, Governor Engler appointed him to the Executive Committee
of the
Michigan Economic Development Corporation; he currently serves as Vice Chair of
the MEDC and Chair of the Finance Subcommittee.
In 1991, Mr. Power helped found the Corporation for a Skilled Workforce, a
not-for-profit organization that helps communities, states, employers and others
achieve world-class workforce development systems. He served as Chairman from
1991 through 2005 and is now a member of the board.
Mr. Power served on the Board of Directors of Jacobson Stores, Inc. and
SenSyTech Technologies, Inc. He is Chair of the Michigan chapter of The Nature
Conservancy and President of the Power Foundation. He also is a member of the
board of the University Musical Society, in Ann Arbor, MI. He was awarded an
honorary degree, Doctor of Public Service, by Eastern Michigan University in
2003.
Mr. Power graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of
Michigan in 1960. He was editorial director of the student newspaper, The
Michigan Daily, and a member of Americans Committed To World Responsibility, a
student organization that proposed volunteer service abroad – the original
version of the idea taken up by John F. Kennedy as the Peace Corps. In 1962 he
received a Marshall Scholarship to study at Oxford University in England, where
he received an MA in philosophy, politics and economics.
He is married to Kathleen K. Power. They have two sons, Scott T. Sutton M.D.,
and Nathan E. Power.
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