Guest post from Essential Class of 2015 participant Holly Tachovsky, reflecting on the December class day on the Built Environment: Transportation, Land Use & Housing. Holly is CEO of BuildFax. Austin is growing like mosquitos in a Hyde Park alley. But, it isn’t just…
Do we have the ability to change the way that people talk with one another about important community issues? Can dialogue lead to action? Will leaders let the thoughts of the community shape the decisions they make? “Yes!” say all the people behind Conversation Corps,…
Guest post by Paul Hilgers (Essential 1987). Paul is the Chief Executive Officer of the Austin Board of REALTORS® . The phrase “there’s no place like home” is especially true in Austin, Texas. With a rapidly growing economy, strong job market and our overall quality of life,…
Julie Smith is a Leadership Programs Manager at Leadership Austin. She oversees the Emerge Program, the Engage Breakfast Series and several of our Equip Client Services programs, including Conversation Corps. There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve…
As we extend our special five-part Engage Breakfast series, The Growing Divide, we continue to discuss the elements that make Austin strong, yet trends that are creating divisions. There are layers and layers to this theme, so we are spending the next four months peeling…