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building tomorrow’s leaders today Andrew Frazier beams with pride as the cavalcade of middle managers into the Executive Leadership Council’s annual summit continually increases. Frazier said the ELC’s Mid-Level Managers’ Symposium provides an intellectual and strategic platform to help catapult upwardly mobile businesspeople into the upper echelon of multinational corporations.

“The Mid-Level Managers’ Symposium is an opportunity to expose middle managers to various corporations across the country,” he says, “so this year we’re focusing on adaptable leadership strategies so they can learn how [to] become a more adaptive leader or be more successful within their own organization.”

Frazier, christened the chief operating officer of the ELC less than a year ago, boasted about the multiplicity of ELC initiatives that protect African Americans from adversity and prepare them for eventual challenges. The initiatives include the Black Women’s Summit in New York, the Annual Fall Meeting Dinner, and the CEO Summit, which is a forum of Fortune 500 CEOs and the most senior African American executives.

Senior level executives share common characteristics that those aspiring to such heights must possess or procure in order to even be considered.

“Discipline and hard work; that’s the first thing that people look for ... being able to work well with others,” he says. “In this environment, you can’t do everything yourself. You have to be able to work well within a team.” - terry shropshire

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