Our Executive Director hosting new show

AM360 series on building a national intelligentsia premiers April 14…

[Note: Here’s the 1st Episode,  2nd Episode and 3rd Episode of Getting to Know the CWSC!]

Mukhtar Muhammad, the executive director for Community Wide Shuraa Conference, assumes a new role on Friday, April 14, 2017, when he is scheduled to host the first episode of Getting to Know the CWSC, a special series that will broadcast on American Muslim 360, Fridays 9 a.m. EST every eight weeks for an initial installment of six shows. During specific dates, the series will air in place of the weekly CWSC Friday Roundtable hosted by Mark Shahid.

The show aims to help educate the entire community on CWSC’s conceptualization, evolution and work as a national intelligentsia service center. Listeners will go inside the architecture, mission, vision, and guiding principles of CWSC and its family of intelligentsia components including its broadcasting center, American Muslim 360, to help grow its capacity by educating its audience and ultimately making CWSC services as accessible as possible to institutions around the country.

Mukhtar was unanimously nominated to his office of leadership in 2015 by CWSC volunteers nationwide and elected by the CWSC Board of Directors closely following the passing of founding director Imam Thomas Abdul Salaam (R).  While he’s usually a low key person most comfortable leading unseen, he said recently, “I know there are still many questions and misconceptions about what CWSC is and is not as a national intelligentsia and community service center; sometimes that information has to come directly from the one charged at the helm of an institution. We’ve seen tremendous growth and an acceleration in our diversity, and the time is right to communicate to both CWSC and the broader community about where were seeking to head in serving the group interest. Getting to Know the CWSC will be an excellent opportunity for me to share simultaneously with all audiences.”

Besides being a civic and community leader, Mukhtar is author of the book and blog, Genesis of New American Leadership: Building the Community Life, vice president for FAMACO Publishers, LLC and famacopublishers.com, a distinguished lecturer in the CWSC Speakers Bureau, and member  of  the strategic planning committee  and electoral board  for  the  Islamic Center  of  Orange  Park,  Florida. He is a third generation Muslim, alumnus of Philadelphia’s Muhammad University, and holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in four business concentrations. He’s also a former enlisted and commissioned naval officer, and has served in executive leadership roles inside and outside our Association, including appointment to national leadership service by the late Imam Dr. W. D. Mohammed (R). He has advised institutions throughout the nation on strategic planning and governance issues and is a nationally recognized consultant on organization design, leadership and management issues. Read more about the new host here.

Many around the nation will recognize his name from the international calendar publication, Remaking the World and from Genesis of New American Leadership, the book many institutions associated with the leadership of Imam W. Deen, used to publish their mission and vision statements.  When asked recently about Genesis, Mukhtar states, “I believe American Muslims have an important role to play in helping America regain its footing and trust in itself, following the debacle of wall street, an avoidable recession and a war of choice v. necessity…just to name a few examples of where leadership deficiencies resulted in catastrophic failures and consequences. The American Muslim Community has a vital role to play internationally as an urgent voice of reform. Simultaneously, our domestic contribution is a high priority and will either be enhanced or impeded by our fellow non-Muslim Americans’ understanding of true Islam and acceptance of Muslims as full citizens; so we have a big job. Muslims must find more interdependent ways to enhance our group efforts, work and contributions as American leaders. I believe Genesis can help bridge divides and create a climate for emergence of a new collaborative leadership inside and outside our communities…I also believe we’re in one of the best periods right now to accomplish that.”

A series of six installments are planned beginning April 14 and continuing on the following dates: June 9, August 4, September 29, November 24, and January 19, 2018.  Guest interviews with executive directors of other national organizations are also being planned into the show’s format.