Leadership is a vital concept to many Colorado business owners and managers, but it is also a term that can be defined in many ways. This week on “Colorado Chamber Office Hours,” I delve into what it takes to be a leader with three Northern Colorado business owners, the director of the Leadership Colorado program and two up-and-coming company leaders going through the program.
Katie Slota, co-owner and founder of Native Hill Farm, gives a tour of the Fort Collins business to the Leadership Colorado class in June.
Katie Slota, co-owner and founder of Fort Collins’ Native Hill Farm, discusses how to run a company based on values and still being able to turn a profit and remain successful and sustainable. Then Ed and Marsha Edmunds, founder of Greeley monster-mask-and-mold-maker Distortions Unlimited, talk about how they took a personal fascination and grew it into a nationally distributing company that has spawned its own cottage industry. And Neil Fisher, co-founder of Weldwerks Brewing of Greeley, explains how one can be both the head of an expanding business and a leader in growing the local business community that he’s helped to shape since the brewery’s 2015 opening.
Neil Fisher, cofounder of Weldwerks Brewing, gives a tour of the company’s Greeley facility to the Leadership Colorado class in June.
Leadership Colorado
In addition, Molly Kostka, director of the Leadership Colorado program for the Colorado Chamber of Commerce, discusses how she seeks to educate participants from a variety of industries on understanding the greater business ecosystem in the state and stepping up to help improve it. And two of her class members — Mikala Tomkins and Haily Beatty of Wings Credit Union — talk about how they are taking what they are learning and applying it to being leaders in their workplace roles.
Molly Kostka, director of the Leadership Colorado program, speaks to participants during a bus tour of Northern Colorado businesses in June.
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