A foundational principle at Leadership Austin is that money should never be a barrier to accessing our high-quality programming. In fact, every year, Leadership Austin awards more than $90,000 in scholarships to participants. The primary source of funding for scholarships is the annual Best Party…
Sam Planta’s path to leadership was an indirect one. A child of the Air Force, Sam had attended 13 different schools by the time he finished high school. He started his undergraduate work at Oklahoma State University but transferred to Southwest Texas State University (now…
Ask any alumnus to describe their Leadership Austin experience, and you’ll frequently hear words like “game-changing”, “transformative” or “life-altering”. That was certainly the case for Ashland Viscosi (Emerge 8 – 2014). Ashland came to Emerge with a background in the creative arts, specifically the film industry….
“I am a proud member of Leadership Austin’s Best Class Ever, the class affectionately nicknamed Y2K because we were the class at the turn of the new century. I’m Judge Lora Livingston and I want to thank and congratulate Leadership Austin for 40 amazing years…
Marion Martin (Essential 30 – 2009) is an active alumna. She has served on the Board of Directors and is a regular attendee at Leadership Austin events. We feel like we know her pretty well. She proved us wrong, however, when she shared this post…
In 2016, Austin Mayor Steve Adler formed the Task Force on Institutional Racism and Systemic Inequities. The goal of the Task Force was to identify and make recommendations on how to address patterns of systems-level, racially-based disparities in the community. Their final report included more…
St. David’s Foundation has a long history of partnership with Leadership Austin. As presenting sponsor of the Emerge program, the Foundation impacts 55 new leaders in our region every year. Leadership Austin could not provide consistently high-quality programming without the support of leaders like St….
Alan Graham’s Leadership Austin Essential experience (Class 16 – 1995) coincided with his transition away from the for-profit real estate development industry and, ultimately, his founding of Mobile Loaves & Fishes in 1998. Alan documented that journey in his 2017 book Welcome Homeless: One Man’s…