Quarterly Pillar Breakfast with Mayor Manny Diaz - note venue change

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The Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce

cordially invites you to the

Quarterly Pillar Breakfast
As a Pillar Member of the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce, you are entitled to network with other Pillar members at four exclusive complimentary Pillar breakfasts throughout the year.

GUEST SPEAKER
Mayor Manny Diaz
Former City of Miami Mayor

Mayor in 2001, having never before held elective office. He was reelected to a second term in 2005, and was chosen to lead the United States Conference of Mayors as its president in 2008. Mayor Diaz developed a vision for Miami as an international City that embodies diversity, economic opportunity, effective customer service and a highly rated quality of life. To achieve this goal, he re-engineered Miami government from top to bottom. During his two-term tenure, Diaz was recognized for transforming the City of Miami, and for many nationally recognized innovative programs in the areas of urban design, sustainability and green initiatives, education, infrastructure investment, affordable housing, law enforcement, poverty and homelessness, and arts and culture.

In recognition of his efforts, Diaz has received almost 100 awards and recognitions including, America’s Best Leaders by US News and World Report and The Center for Public Leadership (Kennedy School of Government). In addition he serves on numerous boards and councils around the country, including The Homeland Security Advisory Council of the US Department of Homeland Security. Most recently, he served as a Resident Fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, and completed his book, Miami Transformed: Rebuilding America One Neighborhood, One City at a Time. Mayor Diaz has now resumed his successful corporate and real estate law practice as a senior partner at Lydecker Diaz in Miami, Florida.