Thursday, March 28, 2024

Support for Julie Russell for CUSD School Board

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Submitted by Jim McManus


 

It was my honor to work closely with Julie (Mehta) Russell when we both served as U.S. Coast Guard officers in Honolulu in the mid-1990s. We partnered on a very high-profile initiative to fundamentally change the way the USCG operated administratively. A lot of this was through executive training and professional materials that led people through the basics of systematic improvement, but a lot of it was also redesigning complex high-level processes and facilitating policy discussions at the Admiral/Captain level. Our office had a reputation for professionalism that extended nationally and much of our work was adopted service-wide.

I’m proud of the part I played in these change but frankly it was Julie’s creativity, intellect and energy that drove the program forward. The cornerstone of the program’s success was a comprehensive guidebook that was conceived through her vision and understanding of what needed to be communicated. She translated strategic needs into tangible action with a kind of imagination I haven’t seen since. Julie knows what to do and how to get things done. Any organization would be lucky to have her.

Jim McManus,
US Coast Guard Academy, Class of 1989



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Originally from upstate New York, Dani Schwartz has lived in Coronado since 1996. She is happy to call Coronado home and to have raised her children here. In her free time she enjoys reading, exercising, trying new restaurants, and just walking her dog around the "island." Have news to share? Send tips or story ideas to: [email protected]

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