Leadership Denver: Calling Community Stewards.

My success, and the success at of most of my human-owned business clients, is dependent on the economic health of Colorado. That’s why my titles include “community steward” as well as lawyer. Well, the fact that I love living here and I want Colorado to continue to be great for my daughters has something to do with it, too.

I’m using email to reach out to some likeminded folks with a message about Leadership Denver. Knowing some of my readers are community investors, I’ll use this platform to spread the word even further. If your interested is piqued and you want to know more contact me or my friend Denise King, who is the program administrator.

Over an 11-month period, 55 of Colorado’s best representatives from the public, private and nonprofit sectors meet monthly to discuss the challenges and issues facing our state. Leadership Denver’s interactive curriculum provides an insider’s perspective on a range of subjects, including economic development, education, healthcare, crime and justice, politics, cultural heritage and poverty.

The program builds and sustains the civic infrastructure of Metro Denver by linking together future, present and past leaders. Through Leadership Denver, participants come together in August as strangers, and graduate in June as friends, colleagues, and partners in leading Colorado. Leadership Denver alumni include prominent Colorado figures such as Governor Bill Ritter, Governor Bill Owens, Mayor Wellington Webb, Elbra Wedgeworth, Joe Blake, Rob Cohen, Phil Washington, Christine Benero and hundreds of others representing all sectors and industries in our diverse economy. 

One last thing you should know about Leadership Denver. By tradition each new class trumpets itself as the Best Class Ever; however, the true Best Class Ever was crowned at a celebration of Leadership Denver’s 35th anniversary. The winner? The Class of 2004, my class.

Thanks to my friends at the DMCLF for this photo.

The Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation is the premier organization for developing leaders in Colorado. For more than 36 years, the Leadership Foundation’s flagship program, Leadership Denver has been taking Colorado’s brightest and most civically-minded citizens and giving them the knowledge and connections needed to guide Colorado’s future.