Leadership Owensboro
Leadership Owensboro is a Greater Owensboro Chamber of Commerce talent development program focused on educating, engaging and empowering individuals while also exposing participants to a variety of topics and issues.
Objectives of the Program:
- Improve the quality of life in the Greater Owensboro region by developing leaders
- Identify key individuals with demonstrated leadership qualities and concern for Owensboro’s future
- Provide participants with the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the 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 kicks off with an overnight retreat and concludes with a graduation celebration. The program includes a class session each month, with topics including:
- Economy and Innovation in our Community
- Education in Our Community
- Human Needs and Services
- Healthcare in Our Community
- C. Waitman Taylor Jr. Local Government
- Justice System in Our Community
- Philanthropy, Arts and Culture in our Community
- Changing Your Community
In addition to attending sessions, class members complete assignments and participate in community meetings and events to meet their graduation requirements.