Our panelists are: Mayor Adler, City of Austin Judge Eckhardt, Travis County What a Year: Hear from Mayor Adler and County Judge Eckhardt On June 21st we will close our Engage breakfast season with City of Austin Mayor Steve Adler and Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt. This…
Invest in Yourself When graduates of Leadership Austin describe their time in the Essential or Emerge programs, they use words like life-changing, defining, unforgettable. They talk of shared experiences and supportive networks, and of opened minds and fresh perspectives. They can’t believe they didn’t pursue…
It’s not easy to talk about racism. For some it is personal and raw. For others it is distant and undefinable. For many it is somewhere in between and accompanied by the question, “what do we do about it?” It’s easy to get stuck thinking…
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…
Erasing the Mental Health Stigma According to a recent report from the Texas Judicial Council, approximately 1 million Texans experience serious mental illness in a given year. How does this impact you and the people in your life? What are we doing as a community…
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 Patricia Buchholtz, Partner/Marketing Strategist at lookthinkmake. In the Army, when you want to make a team move through a narrow passageway more efficiently and effectively, you simply gather the Sergeants Major, let them know the exact time…