2月
29

Life at Deloitte — The Deloitte Campus Tour 2012


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Volleyball or Volunteer? Nearly 1,600 Undergrads Vie for a Coveted Spot with Deloitte’s 5th Annual Alternative Spring Break – Press Releases on CSRwire.com

U.S. Olympic Champions Evan Lysacek and Steve Mesler to kick off programs, reminding students that determination and persistence can help them succeed in the job hunt

Olympic figure skating champion Evan Lysacek will kick off the second program in Atlanta from March 10 to March 16 by sharing how leadership lessons from the ice rink can translate to the workforce. Fifty-three students will join Deloitte and United Way for volunteer projects, including those that aim to impact early childhood education, as well as high school graduation rates.

Volleyball or Volunteer? Nearly 1,600 Undergrads Vie for a Coveted Spot with Deloitte’s 5th Annual Alternative Spring Break – Press Releases on CSRwire.com.

U.S. Olympic Champions Evan Lysacek and Steve Mesler to kick off programs, reminding students that determination and persistence can help them succeed in the job hunt

Submitted by: Deloitte
Categories:Volunteerism, Community Development
Posted: Mar 05, 2012 – 01:40 PM EST

NEW YORK, Mar. 05 /CSRwire/ — Chosen from a pool of 1,600 applicants, 88 college students will participate in the fifth annual “Maximum Impact: Deloitte’s Alternative Spring Break” program this year. Teaming with United Way and Teach For America, Deloitte will host two distinct spring break programs that will enable top-tier undergraduates to volunteer their time and skills while simultaneously connecting with its professionals.

Launched in 2008, Maximum Impact helps Deloitte identify potential employees who share its commitment to community service and education. While the program has become competitive, with the number of applicants more than doubling since its inception, it continues to serve multiple purposes. This includes allowing students to experience Deloitte’s culture and commitment to the community first-hand and enabling the organization to build relationships with top students. Today it is one of Deloitte’s most innovative approaches to talent pipeline management. As one of the largest campus recruiters in the nation, Deloitte plans to hire approximately 6,500 full-time employees and interns from 400 U.S. campuses in 2012.

“At Deloitte, finding candidates who will thrive in our organization is a top business objective,” said Diane Borhani, Deloitte’s U.S. campus recruiting leader. “Maximum Impact enhances our recruiting efforts by allowing us to build relationships with future leaders well before they graduate. Because it’s done within the context of community service – which is a passion we share with these recruits – we’re able to further connect with them and learn things about one another that would not be possible in a typical interview environment.”

During programs in Atlanta, GA and Memphis, TN from March 4 to March 16, students from almost 50 U.S. colleges and universities will volunteer side-by-side with Deloitte professionals, while gaining valuable experience for their future career path.

“Maximum Impact was the first time I had the opportunity to closely interact with Deloitte and its people,” said Rachel Fetterman, audit senior assistant, Deloitte & Touche LLP and a 2008 program participant who was later hired by the organization. “As a result, I knew that Deloitte would not only be a place where I would feel comfortable working, but where I could develop strong friendships, mentorships, and professional relationships. I was also excited by the fact that Deloitte is an organization dedicated to volunteering and giving back to the community, where I would be able to get more involved.”

From March 4 to March 8, Deloitte and Teach For America will bring 35 college students to Memphis to tutor local students, offer small group instruction and speak about the importance of a college education, among other projects. Through Deloitte’s sponsorship of the U.S. Olympic Committee, Olympic bobsled Champion Steve Mesler will kick off the effort by addressing the volunteers about the connection between high performance and community service.

“This is an opportunity to show students that there is nothing a little determination and persistence can’t achieve as they begin on their career journeys,” said Mesler. “These students are the leaders of tomorrow and have the power to not only bring value to the workplace, but to impact society in a transformative way that can leave a long-lasting footprint on how businesses give back to the community.”

Olympic figure skating champion Evan Lysacek will kick off the second program in Atlanta from March 10 to March 16 by sharing how leadership lessons from the ice rink can translate to the workforce. Fifty-three students will join Deloitte and United Way for volunteer projects, including those that aim to impact early childhood education, as well as high school graduation rates.

Follow Deloitte on Facebook at www.facebook.com/YourFutureAtDeloitte and on Twitter @LifeatDeloitte. Search #DeloitteASB to follow the action during Maximum Impact.

For more information about Teach For America, please visit www.teachforamerica.org and follow them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/teachforamerica and on Twitter @TeachForAmerica.

For more information about United Way, please visit: www.UnitedWay.org and follow them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/studentuw and on Twitter @live_united.

As used in this document, “Deloitte” means Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries. Please see www.deloitte.com/us/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries. Certain services may not be available to attest clients under the rules and regulations of public accounting.

Feb 29

Gavin Mckinney‏ @gavinmckinney Met U.S. Olympians and heard how they reached the highest level. #inspired Thanks @Deloitte@evanlysacek @j_horton11pic.twitter.com/bgEzcAu0


Met U.S. Olympians and heard how they reached the highest level. Thanks

The Deloitte Campus Tour “Take the Lead” Sep. 1 — Dec. 6 2011

2月
25

Lysacek optimistic his issues with U.S. skating close to resolution — chicagotribune.com

Lysacek optimistic his issues with U.S. skating close to resolution — chicagotribune.com.




Globetrotting by Philip Hersh
3:42 p.m. CST, February 24, 2012

Evan Lysacek came to Twin Rinks Arena in Buffalo Grove Thursday to give a private lesson to a 14-year old figure skater, Rudi Baruch, whose dad had bought the opportunity in a charity auction.

But Lysacek was on the ice an hour before the lesson began, doing run-throughs of a long program to the Bacchanal from Saint-Saens’ Samson and Delilah. He worked the full hour with relentless intensity, skating the whole program a couple times, then concentrating repeatedly on individual sections, including three-jump sequences and quadruple jumps — two of which he landed.

This clearly was more than a training session designed to get the reigning Olympic champion in shape for his upcoming shows skating, with the Skating Club of Boston in late March; Figure Skating of Harlem in early April; an “A” list gala in Sweden, whose King and Queen will be on the guest list, that he said is being arranged by the U.S. State Department for mid-April; and Kim Yuna’s shows in South Korea this May.

Globetrotting by Philip Hersh


This was a guy training for a competitive comeback, with Samson and Delilah as his long program.

Lysacek, 26, hoped to do his first competition since the 2010 OIympics this season. But negotiations with U.S. Figure Skating on some contractual issues broke down soon after Lysacek announced last September he intended to try for the 2014 Olympics.

He is optimistic they will be resolved well before next season.

“Some talks I have had in the past couple weeks make me feel certain it will get worked out,” he said.

USFS spokesperson Barb Reichert said last fall that money created the impasse. In the broadest sense, that was true, but Lysacek insists, “It was never an issue of dollars and cents,” even if the USFS funding offer was less than he hoped for. Sources with knowledge of the negotiations told me the main sticking point involved individual sponsorship contracts Lysacek currently has and could get in the future.

Reichert said Friday the USFS would have no comment “at this time” about Lysacek’s feelings that an agreement is near.

“I think something got lost in translation in the triangle involving me, my agents and U.S. Figure Skating,” Lysacek said. “I think we will be fine. I want to skate, I love to skate, and I can’t fight what is inside me.

“I really have a competitor’s heart. And I’m pretty sure I can still do it. The bottom line is I want too compete, and I’m going to be ready to do it.“

There is an ironic side to Lysacek’s problematic relationship with the U.S. figure skating federation. Over the past two years, the U.S. Olympic Committee, which oversees USFS, has frequently called on Lysacek — as well as Olympic medalist champions Gretchen Bleiler and Lindsey Vonn — to schmooze and speak at fundraisers. He is scheduled to do one at Aspen, Colo., and another at Big Sky Resort in Montana this winter.

“We have found donors love to hear (the athletes’) stories,” USOC communications director Patrick Sandusky said. “Evan is one of the best story tellers around, and in these intimate settings, he really connects with people and brings the Olympian experience to life.“

Naperville’s Lysacek said he called USFS high performance director Mitch Moyer right before January’s U.S. Championships in January to tell Moyer he was training for next season. Lysacek said he is near a 50 percent success rate on a quad, which he did not need to win the 2010 Olympics, and he wants to have six triple jumps in the second half of his long program, when they would get bonus points.

“My first steps coming back into competition, I am not going to expect perfection or to win,” Lysacek said. “As I get closer to Sochi, I will be out for blood.“

Lysacek said he has seen only bits and pieces of competitions this season. He spent the U.S. Championships promoting skating in Dubai and Abu Dhabi as a guest of two sheikhs from the United Arab Emirates, a trip that developed from an unlikely series of connections. An owner of the Palm Beach, Florida Ice Works, where Lysacek trained a couple times last year, has business contacts with one of the sheikhs.

The trip to Sweden will give him a chance to see an old friend. Lysacek said he had skated in Chicago with Natalia Lopatniuk Brzezinski, who grew up near Midway Airport and is the wife of the new U.S. ambassador to Sweden, Mark Brzezinski.

Such commitments, Lysacek notes, would have made it complicated for him to compete this season.

“I would have been exhausted, but I would have tried,” he said. “Next year, I will have more control of what my schedule looks like, and I will make sure it is really geared around competing.“

Lysacek’s longtime rival, the charismatic Johnny Weir, announced in January he is training for a comeback next season. The two have gotten over differences sparked by a brief sniping episode after the 2010 Olympics.

“I really wish Johnny well,” Lysacek said.

The sport — and especially U.S. Figure Skating — should wish them both well. Three-time U.S. champion Weir and two-time U.S,. champion Lysacek are the only two U.S. men to win world medals (or finish higher than fifth) since 2003, one medal (bronze) for Weir and three (a world title and two bronzes) for Lysacek, who also never missed the podium in his final 12 Grand Prix appearances.

No matter their future results, the return of Lysacek and Weir should energize a sport only hard-core fans care about any more in the United States.

The general public may know Lysacek more for his second-place finish on Dancing With The Stars than his Olympic gold and Weir more for his quirky personality and his reality show than for his skating, but no one outside the skating community could tell you who succeeded them as the best in the country.


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2月
25

Buffalo Grove girl skates alongside Olympic champ Evan Lysacek

Lysacek and Baruch Twin Groves student and local figure skater Rudi Baruch had the unique opportunity to train with Olympic medalist Evan Lysacek at Twin Rinks last week. Her parents won the skate session as part of a silent auction.


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Rudi Baruch had a hard time wondering if she was dreaming or awake. Then a hard spill on the ice reinforced reality, but it was the most dream-like reality she’s ever had.
The 14-year-old ice skater was the lucky recipient of an exclusive one-on-one private ice skating lesson last Thursday in Buffalo Grove with Olympic gold medalist Evan Lysacek.
“It seemed like a dream, but I learned a ton,” Baruch said.
The two had the entire rink to themselves at the Twin Rinks complex off Weiland Road Feb. 23 for close to two hours. The facility is also where Baruch practices figure skating five days a week after she gets out of Twin Groves Middle School.
It was only two years ago that she started getting serious about the sport, which isn’t too far off from when Lysacek started. The 26-year-old Naperville native first took to the ice when he was 8 years old.
“She’s kind of like how I was getting a late start,” Lysacek said.
The hard work he put in certainly paid off. Before he turned 16, Lysacek captured three U.S. Figure skating titles––juvenile (1996), novice (1999) and junior (2000).
In 2006, he placed 4th at the Olympic games and in 2010 he placed 1st winning a gold medal. He was also the World Champion and Grand Prix Final champ in 2009.
Baruch immediately hit the ice Thursday afternoon with strong determination and a fearless attitude.
She was doing a variety of techniques such as singles, doubles and three-turns. Every time she hit the floor, she got back up ready to do it again.
“After the first double she really got the hang of the exercises, and was able to incorporate the philosophies we were bringing to those exercises,” Lysacek said. “She’s got a powerful style. She jumps so high.”
A little while into the lesson, Baruch’s coach, Denise Myers, stepped onto the ice to watch her skater take in the lesson.
“It’s kind of like a building process where you learn to add and subtract before you multiply and divide,” Myers said of the exercises.
After the lesson was over Baruch went up to give her parents a great big hug of appreciation because it was they who set it up.
Her parents won the skating lesson in a silent auction in November 2010 at a fundraiser for Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Lake County.
It took awhile for Lysacek’s schedule to line up, but it was well worth the wait, her parents said.
CASA has over 200 volunteers working for the Lake County juvenile courts as fact finders for judges and advocates for abused and neglected children.





 

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Buffalo Grove girl skates alongside Olympic champ Evan Lysacek - PhotoGallery - Chicago Sun-Times

 

Buffalo Grove girl skates alongside Olympic champ Evan Lysacek — PhotoGallery — Chicago Sun-Times

Feb 24

Buffalo Grove girl skates alongside Olympic champ Evan Lysacek - Chicago Sun-Times

 

Buffalo Grove girl skates alongside Olympic champ Evan Lysacek — Chicago Sun-Times

Buffalo Grove girl skates alongside Olympic champ Evan Lysacek — Chicago Sun-Times.

Updated: February 23, 2012 4:28PM

Everything else in the room disappeared, and Rudi Baruch’s dream came true.

Baruch, 14, got the ice-skating lesson of a lifetime Thursday when she spent an hour training with and learning from her favorite sport’s reigning Olympic champion. The dream-come-true was funded by her father, David, and dreamed up by her mother, Wynne, a year and a half ago, when they happenstanced their way into a charity fundraiser.

“For me, it was the only item in the room,” Wynne Baruch said Thursday. “I saw the ice skate, I saw the opportunity, and I flipped.”

The opportunity was a lesson with Evan Lysacek, arguably the greatest ice skater the Chicago area has yet produced. The gold medalist of the 2010 Winter Olympics, Lysacek is also the 2009 world champion, 2007 and 2008 national champion, a 2006 Olympian and — an honor befitting an athlete willing to donate his time for charity — the U.S. Olympic Committee’s SportsMan of the Year in 2010.

The charity was the Court Appointed Special Advocates of Lake County, a non-profit organization of volunteers who assist abused and neglected children as their cases wind through the court system. David Baruch’s company had reserved a table at the group’s CASAblanca fundraiser on Nov. 7, 2010, and when the couple perused the items in the live and silent auctions, the lesson with Lysacek nearly jumped up and grabbed Wynne Baruch.

“My daughter is a passionate skater,” she said.

The idea turned into a bidding war, though. David Baruch gave his wife a price ceiling, and her final offer was at his maximum. But it exceeded the next closest bid and became the then-12-year-old Rudi Baruch’s bat mitzvah present.

Rudi was 14 Thursday when she finally laced up with and glided alongside Lysacek. Bonnie Wolinski, CASA Lake County’s development director, noted that the former Naperville resident now lives in Los Angeles and keeps the busy schedule of an Olympic champion.

“It took a while to coordinate everything,” Wolinski said after the skate had finally come to fruition.

Lysacek’s father’s birthday brought him back into town.

“It was fantastic, and so worth the wait,” Wynne Baruch said of her daughter’s opportunity. “It was an unbelievable experience.”

Buffalo Grove teen hits the ice with Olympic gold medalist Evan Lysacek — Buffalo Grove news, photos and events — TribLocal.com


Buffalo Grove teen hits the ice with Olympic gold medalist Evan Lysacek — Buffalo Grove news, photos and events — TribLocal.com.

Olympic gold medalist Evan Lysacek made a stop at Twin Rinks Ice Pavilion Thursday to teach a Buffalo Grove figure skater a few things.

Rudi Baruch, 14, spent Thursday morning doing Salchows and loop jumps with Naperville-native Lysacek, who took home the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Vancouver in 2010.
Rudi Baruch finishes her lesson with Evan Lysacek with a smile. (Michelle Stoffel/Tribune)
Baruch’s parents won the private lesson at a CASA Lake County fundraiser gala auction in 2010, but were finally able to make the lesson happen this week when Lysacek came to town visiting family — and to celebrate his dad’s birthday.

Baruch was pretty excited when her parents presented the lesson as a birthday gift.

“I was screaming at home,” she said.

Baruch has been figure skating for almost four-and-a-half years and about a year ago took on coach Denise Myers, who has known Lysacek since he was a boy.

“Her drive really kicked in when she started working with Denise,” said Wynne Baruch, Rudi’s mom. “She puts herself to bed at 8:30 so she can get up at 5 in the morning. She just takes it so seriously.”

She would like to compete in national competitions, but Wynne Baruch said her daughter’s main focus is nailing the next jump.

After the lesson, Rudi Baruch was ready to take all Lysacek’s tips and techniques out for another spin.

Lysacek said he had a good time with Baruch, and was encourage at how quickly she picked up some difficult moves.

“People take for granted the strength it takes to make these jumps,” he said after the hour-long lesson.

Though Lysacek has not competed recently, he is in training for future competitions, including the 2014 Olympics, his mother, Tanya Lysacek said.

David Baruch said the lesson was an amazing experience and that he will always remember the way his daughter’s face lit up when Lysacek moved her head to adjust her alignment.

“Her face beamed,” he said. “She was just beaming.”

2月
03

I had an amazing time in Dubai and Abu Dhabi




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Evan Lysacek — Olympic figure skating champion — was training at ZSC this week and took time out of his schedule to give a masterclass for the members of Abu Dhabi Figure Skating Team!

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