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August 2019, Issue 4

THE FUTURE OF AT&T: IT'S A BLANK CANVAS. . . The Class of 2018's Letter from Leadership

LDPs and Friends of the Program,

Welcome back for our leadership team’s final edition of LDP Connect.  It’s been a very exciting ride over the last year inheriting what was formerly known as the LDP Newsletter and doing our best to shape this new platform for the future.  In reflection, we thoroughly enjoyed capturing the LDP program’s sense of community through photos, engaging more intentionally with one another across cohorts’ via Connect Conversations, among other new initiatives. We couldn’t be more proud of how the collective community has embraced our creative and often “outside the box” approach. In this spirit of creativity, we’ve decided to dedicate our fourth edition to just that and further explore our company- wide opportunities to try new things and challenge the status quo. Our company has a long history of changing the world through innovation and with the acquisition of Time Warner, we now have a renewed responsibility in marrying our own history with that of another pioneer that’s success has been driven by its creative DNA.  Pablo Picasso once said, “Others have seen what is and asked why.  I have seen what could be and asked why not.”  As members of the AT&T community, we each have an opportunity to be artists too and together can truly help change the world. Throughout this issue, we’ll be examining the topic in further detail and looking at different areas of the business through the lens of creativity.  Thanks for joining us on this journey over the last year and know we’re grateful for the opportunity to have learned from each of you. In some small way we're hopeful that our creativity has positively made a difference with each of our readers in the LDP family.

Andrew Petillo

All the best,

Megan Shulby

Andrew & Megan Leadership Team, LDP Connect Class of 2018

... and each of you is the artist.