What do you love most about living in Austin? What community values drive how we grow? If these questions are important to you, you need to engage in the land development code rewrite called CodeNEXT, and we want to help you understand what that means….
Guest post from Essential Class of 2017 participants M. Teresa Granillo, Executive Director of Con Mi Madre and Matt Glazer, Executive Director of Austin Young Chamber of Commerce. My colleague, Matt Glazer, Executive Director of the Austin Young Chamber of Commerce, and I volunteered to co-author…
How do we help those who are getting left behind? A look at post-secondary education as the key to success As our country wrestles through the multitude of things that divide us, it is important that we don’t lose sight of that fact that many…
Guest post from Essential Class of 2017 participant Sameer Shah, Vice President of Marketing, Smart Flour Foods. Austin’s economic opportunities and problems came into sharp focus for me at our #BCE2017 second class. My general thinking about Austin’s economy was limited to the tech industry,…
Dear Alumni, We hope you will join us for our next Meet the Leader session with Dr. Colette Pierce Burnette, the new President and CEO of Huston-Tillotson University. The Meet the Leader series provides an intimate gathering to give alumni the opportunity to meet an…
By: Elizabeth McGuire Mark Williams is the type of busy person who somehow still makes you feel like he has all the time in the world for you. Case in point: when our schedules didn’t allow for a face-to-face interview, he genially promised a phone…
Guest Post from 2015 Emerge Graduate Billy Moyer. Billy is a speaker, author and a co-founder of SOS Leadership. This video on Education was prepared by a team who examined aspects of this issue in our community. Please take a minute to watch. In the…
Join us for the next Engage Breakfast on Thursday, April 7th to discuss recruitment and radicalization in America. Recent attacks remind us that terrorism can happen anywhere and anytime with terrorist organizations becoming very sophisticated in their recruiting. Leadership Austin and Anti-Defamation League of Austin…