A Quick Hand-Off: John Giles The Disruptor > Thought Leader-of-the-Year 2018

A Lifetime Achievement Award from the East Valley Partnership to honor one of their own.
Your MesaZona blogger just cannot let go of this as one of the outstanding photo opps from the year gone-bye.
On 06 December 2018 the EVP at its annual Thought Forum honored Mayor John Giles with the Dwight Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award/
“He is truly one of a kind,” Barney said of Giles.
"I am the luckiest guy that any of you guys know,” Giles said.

“I get to work for Mesa, Arizona, which is such a wonderful opportunity.
It’s a group of talented, motivated, dedicated people that make me look really, really good and as of a result of that I get to come and pick up awards.
So, I can’t thank them enough for making this possible.”