Tag: leadership
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El Paso County Public Health executive director to step down after 25 years
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save After 25 years with El Paso County Public Health, Executive Director Susan Wheelan is calling it a career. Wheelan, who served the county’s health department in multiple roles before assuming leadership in 2019, will retire effective March 3, according to a Wednesday news release. “Director…
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El Paso County Public Health executive director to step down after 25 years
After 25 years with El Paso County Public Health, Executive Director Susan Wheelan is calling it a career. Wheelan, who served the county’s health department in multiple roles before assuming leadership in 2019, will retire effective March 3, according to a Wednesday news release. “Director Wheelan’s retirement leaves me with mixed emotions,” said Ted Collas,…
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Exercising effective leadership is hard to do | Cronin and Loevy
“One of the most universal cravings of our time is a hunger for compelling and creative leadership,” wrote one of our mentors, political scientist James MacGregor Burns. Yet, nowadays, leaders nearly everywhere are having a rough time. Syrians have tossed out their brutal dictator and are scrambling to put together provisional leadership. South Koreans have…
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Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs selects Hannah Parsons as interim CEO
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Downtown Partnership has selected Hannah Parsons as its interim CEO, the nonprofit announced in a news release Monday. A longtime fixture in the Colorado Springs business community, Parsons steps into the leadership role vacated by Susan Edmondson, who resigned in October due to health…
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Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs selects Hannah Parsons as interim CEO
The Downtown Partnership has selected Hannah Parsons as its interim CEO, the nonprofit announced in a news release Monday. A longtime fixture in the Colorado Springs business community, Parsons steps into the leadership role vacated by Susan Edmondson, who resigned in October due to health reasons. “Under Susan Edmondson’s visionary leadership and strategic execution, we…
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Colorado State Fair hires new general manager from Idaho
The Colorado Department of Agriculture and the Colorado State Fair Board of Authority on Monday announced the selection of Andrea Wiesenmeyer as the fair’s new general manager, according to a news release. A unanimous choice by the interview committee after a national search, Wiesenmeyer steps into the leadership role left vacant by Scott Stoller, who…
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Jack Briggs, Springs Rescue Mission CEO, to step down
Jack Briggs, president and CEO of Springs Rescue Mission, is stepping down. The Colorado Springs-based nonprofit announced Tuesday that Briggs, who assumed leadership in October 2020, will be leaving his position effective Sept. 30. “This decision came after a lot of prayer and talking with my family,” Briggs said. “Springs Rescue Mission’s work is incredibly…
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Colorado Springs-based business owner awarded Governor’s Citizenship Medal
John Street, co-founder and CEO of Greenwood Village-based cloud marketplace Pax8, jokes about his personal leadership style. “The truth is, I’m kind of a lazy guy,” said Street, a Denver native who lives in Colorado Springs. “I learned a long time ago that if I hire smart people and let them do their jobs, I…
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Pikes Peak Children’s Museum is without a home
The Pikes Peak Children’s Museum, a nonprofit run in Colorado Springs since 2005, is homeless once again. The museum operated at 2565 Airport Road, a storefront in a strip mall in the city’s southeast quadrant, until late July when the organization’s lease expired, entered 2024 without a brick-and-mortar location. The president of the Pikes Peak…
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Marilyn Gifford, longtime physician and ‘godmother of emergency services’ in Colorado Springs, dies at 80
Marilyn Gifford, a longtime emergency physician regarded as the “godmother of emergency medical services” in Colorado Springs, has died, according to her family. She was 80 years old. A trailblazer in a field that had very few women in it, Gifford was widely acknowledged not only as a standout emergency physician, but as the architect…