Leadership Owensboro
The Leadership Owensboro Program is a program of the Greater Owensboro Chamber of Commerce focused on educating and engaging individuals to reach their potential and maximize their impact in the community.
Objectives of the Program:
- Improve the quality of life in the Greater Owensboro region by developing future leaders
- Identify key individuals with demonstrated leadership qualities and concern for Owensboro’s future
- Develop an educational program to familiarize participants with Greater Owensboro community’s opportunities, needs, challenges and resources
- Expose participants to a wide variety of current local leaders and notable persons through various types of networking opportunities
- Encourage independent thinking, fresh perspectives and approaches
- Empower participants with relevant community issue knowledge and future possibilities for their engagement in leadership roles
Each year, individuals are selected through a competitive application process to be a part of the Leadership Owensboro program. The Leadership Owensboro Curriculum Committee, comprised of regional community leaders, meets regularly to build agendas for the program with the goal of educating the class as much as possible on relevant and timely topics.
Leadership Owensboro has an alumni base of more than 1,000 civic, business and education leaders.
Program Sessions:
The program includes a session each month from September to May. Sessions are a full day class, with topics including:
- Expanding Leadership in Owensboro
- Human Needs and Services
- Education in Our Community
- Innovation, Agriculture and Our Economic Development Strategy
- Issues in Local Government
- Healthcare in Our Community
- Justice System in Our Community
- Changing Your Community
The program kicks off with an overnight retreat and concludes with a graduation celebration. Each year, the class will discuss a project and will work together throughout the year to present an issue and a resolution to a community challenge. Together, the class will be responsible for implementing their project in addition to individual graduation requirements.