A pair of Kansans with passion to improve the lives of others just got a turbo-boost. Wayne Bell, Wichita, and Shannon Cotsoradis, Lawrence, have been selected as the initial participants in Onward Kansas, the Kansas Leadership Center’s new, personalized leadership development experience designed for full-on, intensive difference making. Onward Kansas is designed as an individualized [...]
Nearly three dozen Kansans, recently elected to the state legislature for the first time, gathered recently as a group to learn how to maximize their ability to exercise leadership. Leadership and Legacy in the Statehouse – A New Legislator’s Program is an extensive seven-month program offered by the Kansas Leadership Center to address the unique [...]
More than 50 leadership development practitioners from around the globe are coming to Wichita to explore the Kansas Leadership Center ‘big idea.’ When Kansas Leadership Center President & CEO Ed O’Malley participated in a Harvard leadership development seminar last spring, little did he realize that casual conversations would lead to an international gathering this fall [...]
More than 200 Kansans from 30 communities across the state will converge in Wichita Sept. 19-21 for the 4th annual Kansas Community Leadership Initiative Summit, a week of inspiration, education and intense civic leadership training. Hosted by the Kansas Leadership Center, participants include the directors/facilitators of community leadership programs and either their current leadership class, [...]
It’s a common sentiment among those who have participated in a Kansas Leadership Center learning experience. The exposure to new ideas and competencies, the deeper understanding of group tendencies and processes, in short, the entire experience is made fuller by the personal connections made with those with whom you share the experience. That’s the premise [...]
The Kansas Leadership Center’s newest Art and Practice of Civic Leadership Development – Faith program kicked off June 11th with twenty-two highly accomplished Kansans. Highly respected in their education fields and religious organizations, these participants were carefully selected through a competitive application process. This is the Kansas Leadership Center’s fourth Art & Practice program in [...]
Want to join a dynamic, collaborative team? The Kansas Leadership Center is searching for a highly organized person with great people skills to serve as a full-time Program Associate. As an emerging national voice in the field of civic leadership development, the Kansas Leadership Center offers top-notch faculty, a cutting edge curriculum and the only [...]
Architectural plans have been finalized for the expansion of the Kansas Health Foundation complex, which will be formally named Kansas Leadership Center and Kansas Health Foundation Conference Center. It will be a new three-story building in what is now the Foundation parking lot on the corner of Douglas and Topeka. The facility will serve as the new statewide [...]
One of the toughest parts about exercising civic leadership is that one try to change a situation is usually never ever enough. Tackling the toughest, most daunting problems requires us to keep intervening, through a process of trial-and-error, to pave a pathway for progress. It’s a dynamic that some officials in southeast Kansas looking to [...]
Here is the presentation provided by Dr. Richard Jackson at the Drury-Broadview Hotel on October 25. Dr. Jackson is a nationally recognized expert on ways to build healthier communities. This special event, hosted by the Kansas Health Foundation, attracted 150 people representing a wide array of interests, including neighborhoods, businesses, health care providers, nonprofit executives [...]
