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 [...]
Now that we’re a few weeks into the New Year, we’re all thinking about our resolutions and how we can accomplish our goals. If there’s one thing we all know, it’s that we get more done together. So, why not lean on your fellow alums and the Leadership Foundation to make your resolutions a reality? Want to increase your impact? Apply for Colorado’s Civic [...]
When Scott Hutchings, director of government affairs at Waste Management, applied for the Colorado’s Civic DNA Fellows, he thought it would be like many of the other leadership development programs he’d completed throughout his career. He quickly learned he was in for more. “I feel like this one peers into your soul,” Hutchings told his wife somewhat jokingly after he received the results of [...]
