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 [...]
Next week marks the beginning of Your Leadership Edge: Innovative leadership for you and your community. 94 SW Kansans will come together to participate in this three session program. This program is a powerful learning experience for people who wish to make their communities better places to live by developing an awareness of their community’s [...]
In the same open-source spirit Apple has used developing applications for its iPhone and iPad, The Kansas Leadership Center (KLC) uses what it calls “third-party apps-” the activities of people who teach, coach, consult or facilitate using KLC theory and principles that significantly extend the reach of the leadership center without it having to do [...]
This blog was written by Seth Bate, a Community Consultant and coach for the KLC Before I started consulting with non-profit boards, before I worked for a Chamber of Commerce, before I even attended a community leadership program, I was a Main Street volunteer. Many Kansas communities have downtown development organizations of some kind. About [...]
Your Leadership Edge is a powerful learning experience for people who wish to make their communities better places to live by developing an awareness of their community’s needs, an exploration of their personal leadership capacity and a framework for exercising civic leadership. Tomorrow we begin our second Your Leadership Edge to 77 individuals from the [...]
This blog was written by Seth Bate, consultant and Coach for the Kansas Leadership Center John McGraw was the umpire-shredding manager of the New York Giants from 1902 to 1932. I recently read a biography of him; to my surprise, he has been on my mind as I have taught, discussed and tried to practice [...]
When Dr. Roz Diane Lasker talks about the importance of unusual voices in civic life, she raises provocative questions that just might change how you think about your work with communities. Lasker, who will be featured on next week’s On the Balcony alumni teleconference call, is a physician known internationally for her work on public [...]
(Photo taken by Elle Epp from Flickr) Greg Mortenson stopped 300 meters short of the K2 Summit as time and weather conditions forced him to return to camp. On his way down, he lost the path and spent the night on a boulder next to the edge and followed a path to a small, inviting [...]
