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Tackling Big Issues on LEX
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 [...]
Reflections on LEX Dallas
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 [...]
Decision Making Through Collaboration
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 [...]
Student Leader Reflects on the Importance of Storytelling & Active Listening
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 [...]
New Year, New Ways to Engage with Us!
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? [...]
A Leadership Training Unlike Any Other
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 [...]
Impact Denver Project: The Empowerment Program Receives $3,000 Award
Each year, the Leadership Foundation connects teams of Impact Denver (ID) participants with community organizations that need those engaged leaders to take on a project. Their work helps those organizations make a bigger impact. But the ID teams pay it forward in more ways than one. The Fall 2019 ID participants selected one of its projects to receive a $3,000 contribution from the Leadership [...]
Passion + Action = Change
The leaders who tap into their passion to take action are making a difference in our community. We’re lucky to have over 5,000 Leadership Foundation alumni who are creating real change. They’re always asking, “What’s next? How can we make a difference together?” And, this year at the Leadership Foundation, inspired by our alums, we looked toward the future while [...]