Leadership Greater Topeka brings together a broad cross section of both acknowledged and aspiring leaders from every corner of the community for an annual community leadership training course.

For the Greater Topeka area to grow and prosper, we need leaders from all backgrounds and vocations, who will wrestle with the challenges facing our community. The goals are to challenge and motivate traditional and non-traditional leaders by teaching 21st century leadership capacities through information, dialogue and hands-on experience so they are better prepared to strengthen and transform our community.

In place since 1984, Leadership Greater Topeka has over 800 alumni with nearly 70% still living and active in the Topeka area. Leadership Greater Topeka alumni are challenged to apply their talents throughout the community in volunteer, appointed and elected positions.

Nominations and applications for the program are accepted each fall with the new class announced prior to year end. The course is offered beginning in early February and runs until mid-May with a two-day retreat and seven daylong sessions, primarily on Fridays.

The sessions cover key community concerns in the areas of quality of life, government, crime, business and economic development, community services, education, health care and the media. Woven throughout the program are concepts of:

• 21st Century Leadership Skills: learning styles, change, collaboration, consensus, facilitation, visioning and steps to a learning community.
• Community Trusteeship: working for the common good of the whole community.
• Servant Leadership: the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead... to make sure that other people's highest priority needs are served.

Leadership Greater Topeka Program Nominations Welcome NOW!

Any individual may nominate themselves for the program, or another individual who might benefit from the program. Nominations for the 2011 Leadership Greater Topeka class are accepted anytime. You can nominate yourself or another by completing the Nomination Form at right.  Please print it, sign it and return it to the Chamber Office by Friday, October 1, 2010.

Letters requesting nominations for the 2011 class will be mailed in early September 2010 to Chamber members, community civic groups and churches, elected officials throughout Shawnee County, media outlets and LGT alumni.

For additional information email Marsha Sheahan or call her at 785.234.2644.
 

Important Dates for 2011 Leadership Greater Topeka Program

2010 Leadership Greater Topeka Class

Thirty-six individuals from Topeka and Shawnee County participated in the 2010 Leadership Greater Topeka program.   Leadership Greater Topeka, a program of the Greater Topeka Chamber of Commerce since 1984, identifies outstanding potential leaders from various components of the community. There are over 800 alumni of the program.