The Pennsylvania Society\u00a0(\u201cPA Society\u201d)\u00a0announced today that\u00a0Evan S. Frazier has been\u00a0named President of the organization, succeeding Patricia D. Wellenbach, who has completed her term of service. Frazier, who previously served as Vice President of the PA Society\u2019s Council, brings decades of distinguished leadership in the nonprofit, corporate, and civic sectors to the role.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am deeply honored to serve as incoming President of the Pennsylvania Society, an institution with such a storied history of bringing together Pennsylvanians to celebrate achievement and strengthen our Commonwealth,\u201d\u00a0said Frazier.\u00a0\u201cI look forward to building on that legacy and continuing the Society\u2019s commitment to community, civility, and charity in the years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEvan Frazier is an extraordinary leader whose deep commitment to community, excellence, and public service make him ideally suited to lead The Pennsylvania Society in its next chapter,\u201d said\u00a0Wellenbach.\u00a0\u201cHis\u00a0visionary\u00a0work at the Advanced Leadership Institute and his long record of breaking barriers for the next generation of leaders, reflect exactly the values our Society holds dear.\u201d<\/p>\n
Frazier is the\u00a0President and CEO of The Advanced Leadership Institute (TALI), an organization dedicated to strengthening companies, institutions, and communities through world-class executive education. Since becoming President and CEO in March 2021, he has guided TALI\u2019s national mission to educate, develop, connect, and position Black leaders and their allies for executive advancement.<\/p>\n
Prior to his current role at TALI, Frazier served as Senior Vice President of Community Affairs at\u00a0Highmark Health, and\u00a0has held leadership positions as the President and CEO of the Hill House Association, Vice President in Strategic Planning and Finance Communications at\u00a0PNC Financial Services Group, Senior Vice President at the Manchester Bidwell Corporation, and Director of Community Relations for Eat\u2019n Park Restaurants.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Frazier holds a bachelor\u2019s degree from Cornell University\u2019s School of Hotel Administration, a\u00a0master\u2019s\u00a0degree from Carnegie Mellon University\u2019s Heinz College of Public Policy and\u00a0Management, and\u00a0completed the Wharton Executive Development Program at the University of Pennsylvania.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A nationally recognized leader, Frazier received the President\u2019s Volunteer Service Award from The White House in 2015 and was selected as one of the Most Influential Black Executives in Corporate America by Savoy magazine in 2020. He currently\u00a0serves\u00a0on the board of directors for Dollar Bank and its parent company, Dollar Mutual Bancorp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania Society\u00a0(\u201cPA Society\u201d)\u00a0announced today that\u00a0Evan S. Frazier has been\u00a0named President of the organization, succeeding Patricia D. Wellenbach,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-238647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}