Leadership Northern Colorado Graduates

2012 Leadership Northern Colorado Class Graduates

Fort Collins, Colo. – The third Leadership Northern Colorado class completed their six month program on Tuesday, June 26 at the Budweiser Event Center.  Twenty-seven participants completed the 2012 program and were recognized at a graduation event sponsored by Public Service Credit Union.  Leadership Northern Colorado has now graduated 85 participants.

Leadership Northern Colorado, a joint initiative of the Fort Collins, Greeley and Loveland chambers of commerce, the Community Foundation of Northern Colorado and the Community Foundation Serving Greeley and Weld County, is designed to build human capacity and to identify, define and address the issues facing the Northern Colorado region.  The program was sponsored in 2012 by McWhinney Enterprises.

The 2012 Leadership Northern Colorado graduates are:

Keely	Aggers	United Way of Larimer County
Stacey	Baumgarn	Colorado State University
David	Bruni	US Bank Community Banking
Kyle	Christensen	Make Change NoCo
Sharon	Courtney	Foothills Gateway
Royce	Danford	Kennedy & Coe, LLC
Alie	Daniel	Exodus Moving & Storage
Dan	Dennie	Banner Health - North Colorado Medical Center
Sean	Dougherty	RE/MAX Alliance
John	Drigot	Poudre Valley Health System
Isaac	Essay	1st National Wealth Management
Travis	Guerette	RLH Engineering
Bryce	Hach	Homeward 2020
Steve	Hayes	1st Choice Realtors
Gerry	Horak	City of Fort Collins/CSS-Dynamac
Johnny	Hyde	Burns Marketing
Julie	Johnson Haffner	McKee Medical Center Foundation
Alexis	Kanda-Olmstead	Colorado State University
Brett	Kemp	Flood and Peterson
Nathan	Klein	Loveland Commercial, LLC
Laura	McFadden	Security Service Federal Credit Union
Peter	Meyer	Brinkman Construction
Teresa	Mueller	Mueller & Associates, CPA, LLC
Jared	Reimer	Prudential Rocky Mountain Realtors
Scot	Sanders	The Career Center at Colorado State University
Nicole	Yost	Fyn Public Relations
Marie	Zimenoff	A Strategic Advantage

The program was produced by the Fort Collins Area Chamber, the Loveland Chamber, the Greeley Chamber, the Community Foundation of Northern Colorado and the Community Foundation Serving Greeley and Weld County with assistance from a steering committee:

Kristi Benningsdorf, First Western Trust Bank

Bill Becker, Security Service Federal Credit Union

Catherine Doering, First National Bank

Roxanne Fry, Community Foundation of Northern Colorado

Ann Hutchison, Fort Collins Area Chamber

Judy Knapp, Community Foundation serving Greeley and Weld County

Jessica MacMillan, Great Western Bank

Sarah MacQuiddy, Greeley Chamber

David May, Fort Collins Area Chamber

Amanda Miller, The Place Setting Company

Dawn Paepke, McKee Medical Center Foundation

Nancy Patton, Public Service Credit Union

Lee Ann Sterling, Greeley Chamber

Applications for the 2013 Leadership Northern Colorado program will be available in the fall. Anyone interested in learning more about the program or applying should contact Ann Hutchison at 482-3746 or ahutchison@fcchamber.org.

About Leadership Northern Colorado

Leadership Northern Colorado is a program developed and designed through collaboration of the Fort Collins Area Chamber of Commerce, Loveland Chamber of Commerce, Greeley Chamber of Commerce, Community Foundation of Northern Colorado and the Community Foundation Serving Greeley and Weld County. The regional development program is designed to build human capacity and to identify, define and address the issues facing the Northern Colorado region. The six-month interactive program for 30 select leaders from across the region will focus on regional issues, regionalism and regional leadership skills. For more information, visit www.LeadershipNorthernColorado.com.