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Learning from San Diego
Last month was a great example of one of the ways in which the Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation fuels its mission to educate and inspire our business community. Every year, the Foundation takes 155 private, nonprofit and public-sector leaders on a Leadership Exchange trip (LEX) to another city to learn best practices and examine challenges from a different perspective. This learning sparks ideas [...]
Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation Announces 2019 9NEWS Leader of the Year Finalists
At the Leadership Foundation, we educate and inspire people who want to make a difference as leaders in our community. Inspiration is why we partner with 9NEWS to select a Leader of the Year in our region who embodies the values of Colorado’s Civic DNA™: inclusivity, collaboration, leadership, shared vision and responsibility. Since 1999, 9NEWS has recognized outstanding leaders in [...]
TOSA: Finding Their Denver Home
Just two years shy of his first visit to The Other Side Academy in Salt Lake City, Andrew Schmidt and a team of Leadership Foundation alums closed on a property that will be the home of this transformative program in Denver. It was a Leadership Exchange trip to Salt Lake in 2016 that created the spark to replicate The Other [...]
B:CIVIC to Partner with Leadership Foundation
Collaboration is critical to how we lead, because we know we can accomplish more and we get to better outcomes for all Coloradans when we work together. With that approach in mind, I’m excited to announce that the Leadership Foundation is teaming up with B:CIVIC, a business association that promotes and advances corporate social responsibility for the betterment of all. This [...]
Meet Your 2018-19 Board Chair
We have an exciting year ahead of us, and I cannot be more thrilled to have Ruth Rohs as chair of the Leadership Foundation’s board of directors. Serving as vice president of corporate communications for the IMA Financial Group, Inc. and executive director of the IMA Foundation, Ruth has been a force in our community and truly embodies Colorado’s Civic DNA™. Ruth has [...]
Nominate your 9NEWS Leader of the Year
Since 1999, 9NEWS has honored leaders in our community who have made significant contributions to the well-being and development of our state. Nominations for the annual 9NEWS Leader of the Year award are now open. 9NEWS and the Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation have again teamed up to recognize an inspiring community leader. Three finalists will be selected and the [...]
Meet The Network of the Quarter
What would you do if you had access to 4,500 leaders in your community? Elisa Berzins, brand manager at Match MG has found her connection to her Impact Denver (ID) 2017 fall class and other Leadership Foundation alumni on The Network, powered by Southwest, an online community just for alumni. Get to know Berzins and login to discover how you can engage [...]
Meet the 2018 Outstanding Impact Denver Alum
Finding your passion – your why – is a goal many strive towards. Genia Herndon found it during her Impact Denver program. “[ID] helped me clarify my ‘why’ – a vision of purpose and focus,” said Herndon, associate vice chancellor of access and enrollment for University of Colorado Denver. Herndon was named this year’s Outstanding Impact Denver Alum– nominated this spring by [...]