Evan Frazier, senior vice president of Community Affairs at Highmark Health has been named as the president and CEO of The Advanced Leadership Institute Inc. (TALI Institute). Frazier is the founding director of The Advanced Leadership Initiative which has recently been awarded a Richard King Mellon Foundation grant in December of 2020 to support TALI's expansion into an institute. TALI is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to build and cultivate African American executive leaders in companies and communities. The organization, which expects to have an official launch in 2021, has been supported as well by Highmark Health, UPMC, BNY Mellon and PNC Financial Services Group Inc. Its first project has been the Executive Leadership Academy with the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.