The Houston/Gulf Coast Chapter of the American Leadership Forum (ALF) will honor Mayor Sylvester Turner and Dr. Marc L. Boom with the 2021 Joseph Jaworski Leadership Award and the 2021 ALF Public Service Award, respectively, at ALF’s signature Joseph Jaworksi Leadership Award event on Thursday, December 2nd.

Joseph Jaworksi, who founded the national, eight-chapter game-changing leadership organization in Houston in 1982, will be on hand to present the awards.

Mayor Turner and Dr. Boom will be recognized for their exemplary leadership throughout the Houston community during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mayor Turner is serving his second four-year term as Houston’s 62nd mayor. Since taking office, Mayor Turner has expertly managed significant challenges facing the nation’s fourth-largest city, including budget deficits, homelessness, and natural disasters such as Hurricane Harvey. He is currently leading Houston’s response to the COVID-19 global pandemic. Mayor Turner is a Senior Fellow of ALF’s Class XX. Mayor Turner said, “I have the utmost respect for ALF because these are individuals who have sown seeds into the city who have grown and prospered. I’m honored to be a part of it.”

Dr. Marc L. Boom is president and CEO of Houston Methodist, a 1,000+ bed hospital network that played a key role during the COVID-19 crisis of 2020-2021. Dr. Boom said, “To be recognized by ALF in a leadership realm is special and meaningful and very humbling. And to do that in the middle of a pandemic, when it has been a rough 18 months, is particularly meaningful.”

The theme for this year’s event, “ALF Unmuted: Connect and Celebrate,” will celebrate the decades-long impact of ALF cross-sector relationships in the Houston community that have resulted in meaningful service to the greater good. During the ceremony, Nory Angels, President of ALF, will also present and launch the new identity of the organization.