It has been a tough year in many fronts and, while we still have a few more weeks to go this month, I want to say THANK YOU for the great impact you all have. A few days ago, I was asked to do a quick update to our Board on highlights from the last three months of IS & RESO progress – and what all of you continue to deliver and achieve is nothing short of amazing. We are in the process of putting together our annual report of accomplishments and I can already tell it is an impressive list. Between this month and January, we will be able to take some time to look back, celebrate and reflect on how far we’ve come.
Talking about celebrating, US- and Hyderabad-based teams across IS & RESO will be gathering for your choice of two IS & RESO virtual Christmas Social time options on Wednesday, December 14. You should have the invites in your calendar. This will be our third-annual social event, benefiting our Mission partners, Los Angeles County Regional Food Bank in the U.S. and United Way Mission in India. Once again, we have great raffle prizes to win with your donations to this important cause. Thank you to all the volunteers helping to organize. As it is now a tradition, there will be games and activities, including our kiddo and caregiver favorite Santa Claus workshops, and a new twist this year…
For this year, those of you located in the Puget Sound area are encouraged to come to the Vancouver Rooms of Renton Valley Office Park Gamelin Building to hear Open Forum in-person and join me, Sister Susanne, and others from my leadership team for a bit of face-to-face socializing for the afternoon US session at 1:00 p.m. (PT). (Those outside the Puget Sound area can still watch the second Open Forum from the link in the invite and enjoy the hour of online activities we’ll have for the second time that day.)
For next year and beyond, I look forward to getting out and about to more, and have some more face time with as many of you as possible. As part of that, we will look into producing more hybrid Open Forums with an in-person component. More to come on that.
In the meantime, I look forward to seeing you in person or virtually at one of our two sessions next Wednesday.
Please take good care of yourselves and each other, and thank you for all you do. Look forward to seeing you!
-BJ
B.J. Moore
EVP/CIO, IS & RESO