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 [...]
Your Leadership Edge, Kansas Leadership Center’s signature short-format program is coming to Hays in September. It’s a powerful three-day experience packed with leadership development learning. Your Leadership Edge will push you to the edge of your comfort zone and competence – all while arming you with effective tools and competencies to help you move the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
On August 7, the Kansas Leadership Center hosted its Leadership and Faith program. Congregants from Coldwater UMC, Wilmore Federated, Ottawa First, Salina Grand Avenue, Topeka New Hope, Olathe Church of the Resurrection West, Lecompton UMC, and Hill City UMC participated in the process so that they may return home and diagnose where they can start [...]
Kansas, passing its 150-year mark, has a future worth shaping. As KLC alumni, you are invited to have a voice in what Kansas becomes “Beyond 150.” Join The Kansas Leadership Center, the Kansas Health Foundation, the Wichita Eagle, Wichita State University and hundreds of engaged Kansans at the Kansas in Question Symposium, December 5 and [...]
