The Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation (DMCLF) is the state’s premier leadership organization with a 35-year history of preparing and connecting leaders from the business and civic communities to strengthen Colorado’s future.
The Leadership Foundation helps emerging and recognized leaders expand their skills, enhance their knowledge of local and state issues, as well as leverage their individual passion to make positive changes in our community. Through a range of leadership programs that provide exclusive opportunities for access, dialogue and issues-based education, the DMCLF also enhances individual, career and professional growth while creating significant value for participating companies.
The leadership programs that the DMCLF offers include the following:
- Access Denver exposes new, newly-promoted or new-to-Denver, senior-level Denver executives to the influential people and critical issues of the Denver area, providing an exclusive two-day introduction to the city’s business and community landscape.
- Colorado Leadership Alliance (CLA), a collaborative effort led by the DMCLF and including 11 Colorado member campuses, helps prepare undergraduate students for career leadership through academic coursework, internship/externship experiences and merit-based scholarships for top emerging leaders.
- Impact Denver builds confidence and leadership skills for young professionals while introducing them to topics of significance to the region. (Six-month program, half day/month).
- Leadership Alumni Network ties together 2300 Alumni of the Foundation's leadership programs, who represent the Denver Metro region's business, civic and community leadership.
- Leadership Denver is an 11-month program that brings 55 leaders and emerging leaders together to learn about the issues facing our region to promote community stewardship, while creating lifelong networks that foster professional goals. (One day/month).
- Leadership Exchange (LEX) The city-to-city exchange unites Denver's most influential civic and business leaders with those of other cities encountering similar present-day issues. The Leadership Exchange is a dialogue of ideas, challenges, resolutions, discoveries, innovations and solutions. Leadership Exchange makes a difference in our community through learning from the advances and ventures of others.
- Legacy Denver pairs inspirational, established leaders with mid-career professionals, exposing them to a wealth of experience that can be leveraged in their own careers and offering insights from some of the most accomplished and inspirational leaders in our community’s history. (Six-month program, one lunch meeting per month).
In addition to providing participants with opportunities to build strong personal and professional networks, the DMCLF is the single best forum to bring the private, public and non-profit sectors together to work collaboratively on issues vital to the future of our community. In fact, DMCLF program participants and alumni have played critical roles in passing key economic development and civic works projects important to the community at large including the passage of Referenda C, the public support of Fastracks, the development of DIA, and the formation of RTD. DMCLF programs also have helped foster stability and success within Denver’s nonprofit community by motivating leaders to become involved as volunteers, board members and donors.
Since 1974, the DMCLF has continuously provided unique opportunities to cultivate, expand and leverage the tremendous leadership resources of our community in order to bring about a stronger future for Colorado.
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