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40 Stories in 40 Days: Day 7

40 Stories in 40 Days: Day 7

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…

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40 Stories in 40 Days: Day 5

40 Stories in 40 Days: Day 5

“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…

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40 Stories in 40 Days: Day 4

40 Stories in 40 Days: Day 4

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…

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40 Stories in 40 Days: Day 1

40 Stories in 40 Days: Day 1

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…

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