There are three featured speakers for our District Conference in April. LaShonda Delivuk is a Corporate Film Producer and serial entrepreneur from Dinwiddie, VA who has successfully launched five organizations since the age of 18. Floyd Lancia serves on the 17 member Rotary International Board of Directors and has gone from educator to award winner. Chris Wells countered the inevitable existential graduate bother of his 20s by founding a Rotaract club in Market Harborough, England.
All three speakers have a vast amount of knowledge to bring to share with our members.
Featured Speakers
LaShonda Delivuk, Entrepreneur fueled by Service Above Self
LaShonda Delivuk is a Corporate Film Producer and serial entrepreneur from Dinwiddie, VA who has successfully launched five organizations since the age of 18. Her first brand, Transformation Theatre Company, raised over $25k for charity with three theatrical productions during her freshman and sophomore year of college. In 2017, she received the "Millennials on the Move" award from Lynchburg Business Magazine and in 2018, LaShonda was recognized nationally by Honeybook, Rising Tide Society, Peerspace & Gusto as one of the 20 on the Rise Image Makers for her African American stock photo company Eye for Ebony. LaShonda has also been nominated for the prestigious ATHENA award and Best Civic Leader by Lynchburg Living Magazine.
Currently, LaShonda serves an Assistant Rotary Public Image Coordinator for Zone 33 and the Area 5 Foundation Advocate for District 7570. She has sponsored numerous members to her club and served as a General Session speaker at the 2018 Rotary International Assembly in San Diego. LaShonda is a Rotary Leadership Institute graduate, Immediate Past President of the Rotary Club of Lynchburg-Morning, a Paul Harris Fellow +4 and a Paul Harris Society member since the age of 27. In 2018, LaShonda was awarded the Douglas A. Newton Excellence in Communications & the 110% Award for her Public Image efforts during the 2017-2018 Rotary year. Her thoughts on membership were also featured in the August 2018 issue of The Rotarian magazine (https://www.rotary.org/en/4-questions-about-attracting-young-people-rotary). She is happily married to Josh, her business partner & husband of seven years and currently resides in Forest, VA.
Floyd Lancia, Director, Rotary International 2019-2021
Floyd Lancia serves on the 17 member Rotary International Board of Directors 2019-21.
Floyd Lancia began his professional life in education, first as a secondary school teacher and band director and later as a school superintendent. He spent the second part of his career on his real estate development and construction business, which he has since sold. He has served on the boards of several organizations, including the Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne and Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society.
Lancia first joined Rotary in 1970 and has been a member of his current club since 1992. He has spearheaded Rotary Foundation grant projects that have provided free eye surgeries in Nicaragua and clean water for communities in Mexico, among many others. He has served as RI president’s representative and as training leader at Rotary’s International Assembly.
Lancia is a recipient of The Rotary Foundation’s Meritorious Service Award, the Distinguished Service Award, and the Rotary International Service Above Self Award. He and his wife, Betty Lou, are Arch Klumph and Bequest and Legacy Society Members and support Rotary’s Peace Centers. They have three grown children and six grandchildren.
Chris Wells, District Rotaract Representative of District 1070, East Central England
Chris Wells countered the inevitable existential graduate bothering of his 20s by founding a Rotaract club in his hometown of Market Harborough, England. Working with local Rotary, this blossomed into a new breed of Contemporary Rotaract club; something that may be the future of Rotary with all the awesome DOGOODERY it can bring. Becoming DRR of District 1070, Chris helped bring that contemporary model to a successful larger scale, hoping to grow it even further into the future. This success was turbo-fueled this year when he was invited to speak at the International Rotary Convention in Hamburg to tens of thousands of people. He’s also recently become a Paul Harris Fellow. When he isn’t Rotaracting, Chris works for the Go Make A Difference Charity which develops & shares effective thinking tools to under 25s.
Chris’ talk at the 2019 Rotary International Convention was featured in Rotary News: https://rotarynewsonline.org/a-rotaractor-rocks-the-hamburg-convention/
Follow Chris on Twitter and Instagram: @cswellz or http://dogoodery.uk/