2019 LOCAL
LEADERSHIP PANEL
2019 Panelists:
Ronald C. Todd II, Cheryl Taylor, Leah Sparling, Curt Rowland, and Cheryl Wooten
Ronald C. Todd II, Cheryl Taylor, Leah Sparling, Curt Rowland, and Cheryl Wooten
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Ronald C. Todd II
MINORITY AFFAIRS / OFFICE OF OHIO GOVERNOR MIKE DEWINE Ronald C. Todd II currently serves as Governor DeWine’s Minority Affairs Liaison. Ronald is the point person for the State of Ohio on topics including minority business development, economic development, K-12 educational establishments and colleges, faith-based initiatives, and government access. He works to inspire and connect diverse Ohioans to a government that works for them by creating a platform to voice their concerns. He is also the Co-Chair of the Governor’s RecoveryOhio Minority Health Working Group.
Ronald has been a keynote speaker for various organizations throughout the country. He has served as a panelist at the Congressional Black Caucus and the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. He is very active in his community and church. He serves on the African American Leaders Council for the RNC, OBRA (Ohio Black Republicans Association), |
Advisory Board for the Cincinnati Urban League, Dayton Public Schools Foundation, and Board of Directors: Center for Business & Consumer Ethics (Dayton Business Bureau). Ronald was honored in 2013 as Top 10 African American Males of Dayton, Ohio, listed as a leader in Who’s Who Black Cincinnati/Dayton and Success Guide (Cincinnati/Dayton).
Ronald grew up in Dayton, Ohio, was an All-City High School football player at Belmont High School and earned a football scholarship to Bowling Green State University. Ronald has a B.S. in Business Administration with a Concentration in Management from Ohio Dominican University (Columbus, Ohio) and worked as a Certified NFL Players Association Contract Advisor for 16 years.
He is married to the lovely Janice S. Todd and has one daughter, Kendall S. Curtis.
Ronald grew up in Dayton, Ohio, was an All-City High School football player at Belmont High School and earned a football scholarship to Bowling Green State University. Ronald has a B.S. in Business Administration with a Concentration in Management from Ohio Dominican University (Columbus, Ohio) and worked as a Certified NFL Players Association Contract Advisor for 16 years.
He is married to the lovely Janice S. Todd and has one daughter, Kendall S. Curtis.
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Cheryl Taylor
PROGRAM DIRECTOR / SINCLAIR COMMUNITY COLLEGE With a background of over twenty years in the fields of law enforcement and higher education, Cheryl took on the role of Program Director for Sinclair’s Advanced Job Training program in 2012, and it was a dream job for her—to equip individuals with employable skills and the self-esteem to be the person they were meant to be. With that vision she found her voice, and the program has grown in just five years from serving two prisons and approximately 150 students to 15 prisons and over 1,800 students annually. She has facilitated an increase in the number of certificate programs available, and over 6,300 college-level, job-focused credentials have been awarded since 2013—a more than 2,000% increase from previous efforts.
With the Returning Citizens Initiative, started in 2016, her team is now also following nearly 600 formerly incarcerated individuals, providing services and support to further ensure |
their success. Using her knowledge and experience to educate the greater community on the worth of this segment of our citizenry is also very important to Cheryl. Cheryl holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminology from Capital University and a Master of Arts degree in Applied Behavior Science from Wright State University.
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Leah Sparling
OUTREACH COORDINATOR / HER STORY, INC. Leah currently serves as Outreach Coordinator for Her Story, Inc., where she works to build community awareness and advocacy for the organization. Leah is a graduate of Campbell University and has years of experience in both the non-profit and private sectors, working sales, marketing, PR, social media, media production, and strategic planning.
She volunteers her time at Southbrook Christian Church as a member of the lay counseling team and is co-founder of Provoke, the leadership development ministry at Southbrook. |
Leah also studies with the Gravity Leadership Academy and helps produce the Gravity Leadership podcast. She’s originally from the Dayton area, is married to Philip, and has three daughters–Alex, Presley, and Aven.
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Curt Rowland
VICE PRESIDENT / RADIANCE TECHNOLOGIES Curt is a corporate Vice President at Radiance Technologies and serves as Chief Intel Strategist. In this role, he focuses on the development of corporate strategy and enterprise growth in the National and Service Intelligence sectors, further strengthening Radiance’s presence in the Intelligence Community (IC) and expanding capabilities in Technical Intelligence.
Before coming to Radiance in 2018, Curt spent more than 35 years working in the Department of Defense and IC, with the last 14 years as a Defense Intelligence Senior Leader. In 2014 he was selected to serve as the Chief Scientist of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. At NASIC, he led a team of 4,000, guiding the |
center’s analytic production mission and ensuring timely delivery of relevant intelligence products and services to Air Force and joint operational warfighters and senior defense and IC policymakers.
During his tenure with the Department of Defense, Curt held leadership positions on multiple national-level IC and Air Force boards and was awarded the Presidential Rank Award as a Meritorious Senior Professional in both 2009 and 2015. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Electrical Systems Engineering and is an Air War College graduate.
During his tenure with the Department of Defense, Curt held leadership positions on multiple national-level IC and Air Force boards and was awarded the Presidential Rank Award as a Meritorious Senior Professional in both 2009 and 2015. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Electrical Systems Engineering and is an Air War College graduate.
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Cheryl Wooten
NON-PROFIT STRATEGIST Cheryl Wooten enjoys a long history of leadership and strategic planning.
Cheryl ‘grew up’ in the banking industry where she served over 20 years. Throughout her career in the for-profit industries, she was instrumental in creating customer loyalty through brand recognition, staff engagement and helping create policies and procedures that produced loyal customers and optimal business relations. Moving from banking to non-profit work, she facilitated the launch of start-up organizations and took seasoned entities to the next level by using proven best practices. Cheryl has served with universities to achieve multi-cultural initiatives throughout the USA and Canada for college recruitment. Cheryl’s personal mission statement is ‘To Unite and Ignite!’ |
