Many of Karen’s family members, along with neighbors and friends, joined the Akron community in honoring Karen at the 2021 Lieberth Community Vision Award breakfast.

Click here to see Karen’s full bio.

Click here to view photos from the event.

Thank you to the 400+ (including virtual attendees) who joined Leadership Akron in honoring Karen Talbott on Thursday, November 4, as the 2021 Lieberth Community Vision Awardee.

View our sponsorship recognition from the event:

PRESENTING SPONSOR:

The Billow Funeral Homes & Crematory

CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP AT MISSION LEVEL

Energy Harbor

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

The J.M. Smucker Co.

BREAKING THE GLASS CEILING SPONSOR | $5,000

Betty Donnelly & Kitty Dindo

PNC Financial Services Group

State & Federal Communications

ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT SPONSOR | $2,500

Akron Children’s Hospital*

APV Engineered Coatings

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Child Guidance & Family Solutions

Cleveland Clinic Akron General

CliftonLarsonAllen

Barry Dunaway

Gallagher Benefit Services, Inc.

Key Private Bank

Leppo Group, Inc.

Oswald Companies

VISIONARY SPONSOR | $1,000

ADM Board

Akron Summit Convention & Visitors Bureau

Akron Zoological Park

Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank

Apple Growth Partners

Bober Markey Fedorovich

Ann Amer Brennan

Bridgestone Americas*

Brouse McDowell, L.P.A.

Cohen & Company, Ltd.

Direction Home Akron Canton Area Agency on Aging and Disabilities

Huntington National Bank

Kastner, Westman & Wilkins LLC

Meaden & Moore, Ltd.

Ohio Living Rockynol

Roger and Sally Read

Roetzel & Andress, LPA

Signature Class 27

Sikich

Stark State College

Summit County Executive Ilene Shapiro’s Dept. of Job & Family Services

Summit County Public Health

United Way of Summit & Medina

The University of Akron

LOYALTY SPONSOR | $500

A. Barker Enterprises

Advanced Insurance Designs, Inc.

Michael Batu & Mia Klinger

Fifth Third Bank

First National Bank

Great Work! Employment Svc

Harwick Standard

Hasenstab Architects, Inc.

OPEN M

The Ruhlin Company

Seibert-Keck Insurance Agency

Springside Athletic Club

Vorys, Sater Seymour & Pease LLP

Welty Building Company

Wright LaHaie Jarvis // Raymond James

OTHER SPONSORS

Mark Scheffler