The Leadership Exchange (LEX) trip is an excellent learning lab for the Leadership Foundation’s values. While the principle attributes embedded in Colorado’s Civic DNA™ are necessarily broadly stated, LEX Dallas offered specific and tangible ways that values like inclusivity and collaboration are actualized. The thoughtful design of LEX Dallas and the curation of leaders on the trip assisted in creating meaningful and synergistic learning [...]
The Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation opens people’s eyes to issues in the Denver region – and Leadership Exchange (LEX) did just that, even though I was more than 500 miles from home. I thoroughly enjoyed my experience on the LEX trip in Dallas. Though I am familiar with the city (Jacobs makes its headquarters there), it opened my eyes to the issues being addressed [...]
While I have had the amazing opportunity to attend several Leadership Exchange (LEX) trips, I knew LEX: Dallas would be special. Not only would this be the Leadership Foundation’s 30th LEX trip, during which I would have the honor of serving as the Leadership Foundation’s Board Chair, but Dallas was a community with which I was unfamiliar. From the first session, we heard about [...]
On the Leadership Exchange, we are privileged to meet people who are working hard to make an impact in their community, from heads of large companies to grassroots leaders. Two of those leaders we met were Gary Kelly, the CEO of Southwest Airlines, and Daron Babcock, founder of Bonton Farms. Their work is so different, yet their messages surrounding how to make a difference [...]
In my experience, the greater Colorado community is comprised of many different stories. From leaders like Katie Kramer at the Boettcher Foundation, which makes investments in and builds communities for college-bound seniors, to leaders like Steve Foster at Convercent, which works to provide businesses, schools and government agencies resources to create and reinforce strong ethical and moral workplace practices, Colorado leaders at the Denver [...]
