The Executive Appeal with Alex D. Tremble

Council Member Jim Cox was named Victorville's City Manager in December of 1969 and held that position until 2000. During his tenure as City Manager, he was named to the Board of Directors for the State of California Redevelopment Association, as well as a number of local and statewide offices. He received an appointment from former Governor George Deukmejian to the Mojave County Formation Review Commission.In January 2009, Cox returned to Victorville to serve as City Manager. In November 2012, Cox was elected to the Victorville City Council. He served a two-year term as Mayor until his appointment as Mayor Pro Tem in December 2014. Cox was re-elected to the City Council in 2016 for a four-year term. He served as Mayor Pro Tem until 2018.Community service has always been a hallmark of his leadership. Cox was elected to the Victor Valley Water District Board of Directors in 2003 and held that position until 2007. Cox has also served on the Victor Valley Hospital Board of Directors, Mojave Desert Resource Conservation District, and a number of local clubs and organizations including the Victor Valley Am-Vets Post 7007.Jim Cox holds a lifetime teaching credential in Public Safety and Administration. He is an ex-officio member of the Victorville Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and is a member of Rotary International. He received a Masters Degree in Public Administration from the University of Southern California in 1976.He has lived in Victorville for 47 years and has six children and seven grandchildren. He proudly served in the United States Navy and was honorably discharged.Jim currently represents the City of Victorville on the following Boards, Commissions and Committees:Delegate to Mojave Desert Air Quality Management DistrictDelegate to Victor Valley Waste Water Reclamation AuthorityDelegate to Desert/Mountain Division of League of California CitiesDelegate to San Bernardino County Transportation Authority (SBCTA) Board of DirectorsDelegate to San Bernardino County Transportation Authority (SBCTA) Mountain/Desert Policy CommitteeEmail Council Member Cox

Michael Stallard is the globally-recognized thought leader on how leaders create and maintain cultures of connection that help individuals, teams and organizations thrive for a sustained period of time. A keynote speaker, leadership trainer and executive coach, he is cofounder and president of E Pluribus Partners and Connection Culture Group, leadership training and consulting firms. Michael’s recent clients have included Costco, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Toll Brothers, U.S. Air Force, Turner Construction, and Yale-New Haven Health. Texas Christian University founded the TCU Center for Connection Culture based on Michael’s work. Michael is the primary author of two bestselling books, Connection Culture: The Competitive Advantage of Share Identity, Empathy and Understanding at Work and Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team’s Passion, Creativity and Productivity.   Articles by or about Michael or his work have appeared in business periodicals worldwide. Learn more at ConnectionCulture.com and MichaelLeeStallard.com. A sample chapter of the Connection Culture, 2nd edition is available for free download.  

Keith Benjamin serves as the Director of the Department of Traffic and Transportation for the city of Charleston, South Carolina. In his position he oversees all transportation maintenance, planning and partnerships at the local, county and state level. He is also the city’s representative on the CARTA Transit Board, Charleston Aviation Authority and the Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester Council of Governments’ Policy Committee. Previously he served in the Office of Policy Development, Strategic Planning and Performance as well as led the Office of Public Liaison at the US Department of Transportation. Prior to his Federal service, Keith was Community Partnership Manager for the Voices for Healthy Kids Community Consortium with the Safe Routes to School National Partnership. In this role, he was responsible for the recruiting and developing of public and private partners that were dedicated to creating healthy accessible and safe communities across the nation. At the national, regional and local level, Keith provided technical assistance to policy campaigns in underserved communities, built coalitions, increased leadership capacity, engaged elected officials, created advocacy resources and led The Nation Active Transportation Diversity Task Force. Keith has also previously represented the Transport Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO advocating on behalf of 200,000 members and retirees and also served on Capitol Hill with Senator Carl Levin, the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, the Committee on House Administration, Representative Kendrick Meek, and the late Representative Donald Payne. A 2019 NACTO Leadership Fellow, and delegate to Kenya and Ethiopia with the American Council of Young Political Leaders, he has served as 2018 Next City Vanguard Fellow, a member of the National League of Cities Advisory Panel on Health Disparities, the Better Bike Share Partnership Equity Panel, the National Working Group on Healthy Food access and the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board, Citizens Advisory Committee. Keith Benjamin is a graduate and Deans awardee of Swarthmore College, and comes to Charleston with his wife Tiffany Nicole and son Kingsley Randall.

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