North Lake Tahoe-Truckee Leadership Program Graduates 24 More Leaders

North Lake Tahoe-Truckee Leadership Program Graduates 24 More Leaders

(June 16, 2020) The North Lake Tahoe-Truckee Leadership Program has successfully completed its 17th year by graduating 24 strong smart leaders.

The Leadership Program creates an opportunity for potential leaders to broaden their understanding of the region and its issues, challenges, and opportunities; while honing and developing their leadership skills. Since 2004, the program has graduated over 400 individuals.

As part of the six-month program, participants worked on Action Plans designed to enhance some aspect of local community life. These Action Plans are intended to provide the framework to allow for real-world changes in the community. Through interviews, surveys, and research, teams developed a program rationale, a needs assessment, proposed budget, timeline, community collaborations, and promotional packet. The results of these projects were presented during the final day workshop. This year the projects were: First Friend, BEar Aware, Welcome Wellness Bag, Together Tahoe, Community Connected, Give Back Locality, several of these projects are templates that can be used in many different areas of our community.

The Leadership Program is honored to be facilitated by Shannon Beets of Sierra Nevada University. Not only does she bring her extensive knowledge of Leadership topics, but she also invites talented professors and staff to enhance the program. The partnership with Sierra Nevada University has helped improve the Leadership Program every year.

Sponsors and Location Hosts of the 2020 Leadership Program included Rotary Club of Truckee, North Tahoe Event Center (NTPUD), Truckee Tahoe Airport, Tahoe City PUD, Town of Truckee and Sierra Nevada University.

Scholarships were generously funded by the Rotary Club of Tahoe City, Kiwanis Club of North Lake Tahoe, Sustainable Community Advocates, Soroptimist International of Truckee Donner, Vail Resorts EchoPromise and Theresa May Duggan of Duggan and Duggan. Information about the program, sponsorships and scholarship support can be found on www.TahoeTruckeeLeadership.com.

The North Lake Tahoe-Truckee Leadership Program is a collaborative project of three Founding Partners: The North Tahoe Business Association, North Lake Tahoe Chamber/CVB/Resort Association, and the Truckee Chamber of Commerce. We are privileged to have Sierra Nevada University as our Facilitation Partner, and our Fiscal Partner is Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation.

Congratulations Leadership Program Class of 2020
Amina Hughes
Bart Peterson
Brandy Willoughby
Caroline Craffey
Danielle Grindle
Deanna Guasch
Ethan Birnberg
Genevieve Sirusaite
Janelle Hibler
Jen LaRose
Jessica Bentley
June Reeve
Kate Brower
Katie Biggers
Katy Carman
Kerrie Tonking
Kerry Andras
Kimberly English
Kurt Williams
Liz Wainscoat
Paul Gwin
Ross Anderson
Ryan Wenz
Theresa Condon