More than 85 percent of the Leadership Law-rence graduates reported an increase in their community involvement, according to a sur-vey released in January of this year.

Nearly half of respondents serve in a leader-ship role in community organizations and 76 percent are involved in some form of volun-teer service. While 68 percent of the gradu-ates are involved in political campaigns at the local, state or national level, the rest of the participants would or might consider run-ning for elected office.

All respondents of the survey indicated par-ticipating in Leadership Lawrence was worth-while for them personally. Overwhelmingly, graduates are supportive of the program and

its direction. Leadership skill development, knowledge of the community and network-ing are seen as important components of the program.

“Leadership Lawrence provided me the oppor-tunity to match my passion and talents with a community need,” said Kevin Loos, the 2006 graduate who was appointed to the Parks & Recreation Advisory Board shortly after com-pletion of the program.

Since its inception in 1982, the Chamber’s Leadership Lawrence program has devel-oped more than 500 leaders in the commu-nity, exposing them to the inner workings of

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Survey Shows Graduates of the Chamber’s Leadership Lawrence Program Increase their Community Involvement Upon Completion of the Course

From left, Scott Criqui, Bill Bump, Jeanette Collier, Mike Bourneuf, Brian Edie and Jessie Kwatamdia work on a community project for Economic Development Day that took place on Thursday, February 18.

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Back to School

Last fall I was asked to apply for a slot in a leader-ship program that was being developed by the Kan-sas Leadership Center. This new program, called the “Community Collaboration Academy,” was being developed as a training format for community lead-ers to solve complex community issues. The Lawrence Chamber has had quite a bit of experience with the Kansas Leadership Center through our Leadership Lawrence program, and I have been very impressed with what they are accomplishing across the state.

In December I received notification that I had been accepted into the program along with 22 others from across the state. What I didn’t know was that the program was eleven days long. It required a large amount of reading prior to the first class. Moreover, I had to write up a case study project that I would uti-lize throughout the program. When I heard about the workload, my first reaction was to ask myself what I had gotten myself into. How was I going to be gone from the office for 5 days one week and 3 days for two other weeks attending classes from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. each day? I felt like I was going back to gradu-ate school. I also questioned whether I even wanted to engage in such a lengthy process. I asked myself, after 30 plus years of work experience, what I could really learn from this class that actually might be helpful in my job at the Chamber? Nevertheless, I was com-mitted. So off I went on Monday March 8th–back to school.

It was obvious from the first hour that this was unlike any other training program that I had ever participated in. The format had no real structure and the instruc-tors, who were a combination of Kansas Leadership folks and KU Public Management professionals, were more interested in having the class members engage in the process than in passing any knowledge onto us. Almost every time a participant asked a faculty member a question they responded with “Well, that’s a good question. What do you think the answer is?” For the first 5 or 6 hours it was a pretty frustrating experience. I sat there trying to figure out what they were trying to accomplish by utilizing this method.

When we came back from dinner on the first night and the room was set in a big circle I knew I was in trouble. The evening session was lead by a psycholo-gist from Boulder and the purpose of the session was to talk about our feelings from the first afternoon. Oh my! I was now in a group therapy session with 23 people. However, as the evening progressed I began to notice that I was spending a lot more time reflecting on how I operated in my professional career and how some of my present thinking was actually limiting my ability to be successful at my job.

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Day two began with a 30-minute group therapy ses-sion where we were asked to discuss what we were observing in ourselves after the first day. Needless to say, I was churning inside with this realization that my present thinking had been limiting my ability to do my best work. I expressed that to the group and found out pretty quickly that I wasn’t the only one feeling that way.

The following three days went along in much the same fashion as the first two, and through each of them I came to new realizations about myself and my management style. I learned a great deal about the various components of the collaborative decision-making process and how it can be used to work with community leaders through discussing very difficult community issues.

What I really came away with from this first week back in school is as follows:

• Sometimesyoureallyneedtogetawayfromyour regular surroundings to learn something new.

• Mynormaldayissofastpacedthatitactu-ally took me a day or so to slow down and start to look inward at the questions that were being raised in this process.

• Irarelytakeenoughtimetoactuallyidentifyand really study an issue before I move to the solution phase.

• I have never truly facilitated any groupwhere I didn’t already have an outcome or place I wanted the group to end up at the finish.

• Therearealargevarietyofpeoplethatpar-ticipate in community input processes and that you have to be sensitive to the fact that everyone sees each issue a little bit differently.

• Sittinginclassfor5daysandlearningsome-thing new about both my work and myself wasn’t something to be dreaded, it was actually invigorat-ing.

The second phase of my training begins in early June and not surprisingly, I have some reading to do along with another written assignment. But this time my at-titude is a bit different.

I am looking forward to it.

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Professional Moving & Storage to Host Business After Hours Mixer

ALVAMAR GOLF COURSE 11:30 a.m.

This will be the final and most critical session of the Chamber’s Eggs & Issues Series that will take place on Saturday, April 24. The week prior to the session, state legislators will receive the state budget figures that will determine what they have to do with budget planning for 2011 and 2012 and expenditures for the rest of fiscal 2010, and what it may mean for taxes for all Kansans. Come make your voice heard before legislators will cast their votes!

The session will begin at 8 a.m. at Pachamama’s, 800 New Hampshire St. Tickets are $15. Click here to register.

The invited legislators include Sen. Marci Francisco, D-Law-rence; Sen. Tom Holland, D-Lawrence; Sen. Anthony Hensley, D-Topeka; Rep. Tom Sloan, R-Lawrence; Rep. Barbara Bal-lard, D-Lawrence; Rep. Paul Davis, D-Lawrence; Rep. Ann Mah, D-Topeka; Rep. Tony Brown, D-Baldwin; and Rep. An-thony Brown, R-Eudora.

The event is sponsored by AT&T, Black Hills Energy, Westar Energy, U.S. Bank, Lawrence Journal-World and Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

2010 Eggs & Issues Session III––Last & Most Important Session!

This month’s Business After Hours will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 21 at Professional Moving & Stor-age, located at 3620 Thomas Ct.

Locally owned and operated, Professional Moving & Storage, Inc. is a full service local and long distance moving and storage company with experience in relocating commercial offices and equipment. They are the largest mover in Lawrence and are committed to providing quality service.

Come network with your fellow Chamber members and enjoy great refreshments! This event is free of charge and requires no reservations. Professional Moving & Storage is located on the east side of Lawrence, off K-10 and Franklin Road. For more information, visit their website at www.pmsmoving.com.

Take Our Membership Survey and Help Us Serve You Better!To make your membership with the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce as valuable to you as possible, we kindly request that you fill out our online survey and provide us with feed-back on your personal experiences and expectations. We rec-ognize that your time is valuable and thus have made the sur-vey easy to complete.

Members who complete the survey and identify themselves in the space provided at the end of this survey will be entered into a drawing to win a $50 Chamber gift certificate, redeem-able at any of the Chamber member businesses.

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From left, Katie Guyot, Adam Fales, London Koehn are working on a timeline for PIECE History Day that took place on Wednesday, Feb. 10. Students had a panel presentation from individuals who were in media and law enforcement industries as well as high school students during a challenging period that took place in 1970 in Lawrence.

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For online reservations, visit www.lawrencechamber.com

04/08 Ribbon Cutting: Health Care Access Clinic 4:30 p.m., 330 Maine St.

04/09 Ribbon Cutting: Kansas City Sailing 4:30 p.m., 725 N. 2nd St.

04/15 New Member Reception 5-7 p.m., Landmark National Bank 4621 W. 6th St.

04/16 Ribbon Cutting: LHBA Spring Parade of Homes 11:30 a.m., Location TBA

04/21 Business After Hours Mixer 5-7 p.m., Professional Moving & Storage 3620 Thomas Court

04/22 Ribbon Cutting: Dr. Kathy Gaumer, Lawrence OBGYN Satellite Office 4:30 p.m., Lawrence Health Plaza, 330 Arkansas St., Ste. 215

04/27 Ribbon Cutting: Curves 11:30 a.m., 601 Kasold, Ste. B 102

05/04 Ribbon Cutting: Kurt J. Goeser Insurance Agency 4:30 p.m., 1811 Wakarusa, Ste. 100

05/06 Ribbon Cutting: Dayton Security 4:30 p.m., Chamber Office, 734 Vermont St.

05/07 Start Here Golf Tournament 11:30 a.m.-6 p.m., Alvamar Public Golf Course, 1809 Crossgate Dr.

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Lawrence and Douglas County.

“Participants of Leadership Lawrence, their employers and the community as a whole greatly benefit from this program,” said Sue Hack, director of Leadership Law-rence. “Not only does it educate local business leaders about the societal and economic challenges facing the community today, the program also helps develop rela-tionships with other professionals in the area.”

The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce encour-ages members to apply for admission. The tuition is often paid by the participant’s employer or a fi-nancial sponsor, however there are a limited num-ber of scholarships available. For more information, contact Sue Hack at 785-865-4411 or email her at shack@lawrencechamber.com.

PIECE Class Studies Challenges Community Faced in 1970

Local Business Leaders Selected for 2010 Leadership Kansas Program

Executive Director of Douglas County Community Foun-dation Charles Blaser along with Terrance Wilson, Direc-tor of Customer and Community Relations at Westar En-ergy and Nancy Jackson, Executive Director of Climate & Energy Project in Eudora were among 40 individuals out of 600 who were nominated to apply for Leadership Kansas, a Kansas Chamber-affiliated program.

This nationally recognized program aims to develop and motivate future leaders. Leadership Kansas is entering its 32nd year of educating and motivating leaders from all four corners of the state. The program remains commit-ted to its original mission to inspire persons to maintain involvement in the social, business and political fabric of Kansas communities.

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KU Continuing Education Aerospace Short Course Program Reaches an International Audience

by Kim Hunsinger Asst. Program Director, Aerospace Short Course Program

Everybody knows the two biggest names in the aerospace industry are The Boeing Company and Airbus, but not ev-erybody knows that these two industry giants turn to The University of Kansas Aerospace Short Course program to provide professional continuing education to hundreds of their engineers. They are at the top of a long, impressive list of companies that work with KU for their training needs.

The Aerospace Short Course program, headquartered in Lawrence, has an impressive 33-year history developing world-class training in partnership with KU’s School of Engineering. In 1977, KU aerospace engineering professor Dr. Jan Roskam was asked to train a group of professional engineers. Following that training, he realized what a valu-able service KU could provide by offering professional de-velopment to aerospace engineers. Soon, more instructors came aboard and more classes were added. KU Continuing Education has managed the program for the past 30 years.

The program is now the world’s leader in aerospace engi-neering continuing education and has trained more than 27,000 engineers.

Today, the program boasts a portfolio of more than 40 courses and employs more than 40 industry-renowned in-structors. Courses are provided publicly in six locations nationwide each year in addition to company-specific on-site training around the world. Many attendees return to take a second or third class, citing the excellent quality of instruction and service that the program provides.

International participants often tell staff members how grateful they are to have discovered KUCE Aerospace Short Courses and how valuable it has been to their pro-fessional development. European and Asian engineers do not have a comparable program in their respective areas so they attend courses in the United States. As a result, these participants returned and encouraged management to bring the training on-site to their companies in Europe and Asia. In the past three years alone, the program has presented courses in 16 countries in all regions of the world.

“KU’s Aerospace Short Course Program is an excellent example of a successful partnership between an academic institution and a global industry,” said Frederick Pawlicki, Executive Director of KU Continuing Education. “Draw-ing from an instructor portfolio of aerospace experts, we provide the latest research and highly specialized engineer-ing training to industry professionals worldwide.”

What does the future hold for this KUCE program? The program staff is dedicated to providing not only the best training possible, but the best experience and representa-tion of KU as well. Next month, public courses will be presented in Singapore, and plans are underway to take public courses to Europe in 2011.

KUCE is proud of its program, which displays the talents and accomplishments that the University has to offer.

Gilbert Thompson takes a break with his class in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Saturday, April 24 at 1 p.m.

The game is sponsored by Downtown Lawrence Inc., the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, Lawrence Convention and Visitors Bureau and the City of Lawrence.

•Admissionisfreetoall!

• Get a glimpse of Turner Gill’s first squad

•Hy-VeeHawkZonewithinflatablegameswillbeginat11a.m.

•ParkinDowntownLawrenceandtakethefreeshuttletothegameand return to Mass Street for great food, live music, entertainment and shopping

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Guest Speaker Luncheon The Chamber’s Guest Speaker Luncheon with Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little of the University of Kansas took place on Tuesday, March 23.

Chancellor Gray-Little spoke to Cham-ber members about the importance of a close relationship between KU and Lawrence businesses.

She reported that 17 active start-up companies have been formed as a re-sult of KU faculty research. Further, the university brings in $200 million per year in federal grant dollars.

She believes the success of higher educa-tion is directly related to the success of business and encouraged the business community to support KU’s efforts.

The event was attended by more than 70 Chamber members.

Thank you to Maceli’s for their con-tinuing support.

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W E L C O M E N E W M E M B E R S

Avon Independent Sales Representative868 E. 1259 Rd.Lawrence, KS 66047Phone: 785-842-8464www.youravon.com/lalmonLinda Almonlindaalmon@yahoo.com Bum Steer Catering2040 W. 31st, G-182Lawrence, KS 66046Phone: 785-841-7665www.bumsteercatering.comChris Lemmonbumsteercatering@yahoo.com

Central Payment Corp1225 A Rhode Island St.Lawrence, KS 66044Phone: 785-840-9655Fax: 785-840-9655www.centralpaymentcorp.comChristina Clementscrfclements1@lycos.com

Corpus Christi Catholic Church6001 Bob Billings ParkwayLawrence, KS 66049Phone: 785-843-6286Fax: 785-865-3933www.corpuschristilks.orgFather Mick Mulvanychristi@corpuschristilks.org

Custom Tree Care, Inc. 3722 SW Spring Creek Ln. Topeka, KS 66610 Phone: 785-478-9805 Fax: 785-478-4195 www.customtreecare.org Greg Gathers customtreecare@hotmail.com DPI2901 Lakeview Rd. Lawrence, KS 66049 Phone: 785 841-8041Fax: 785 841-6413www.dpi.bizGreg Wardgreg@documentproducts.com

Dayton Security, Inc.P.O. Box 1046Lawrence, KS Phone: 785-550-1877Fax: 620-653-4404 www.daytonsecuityinc.comEric Daytonericdayton@daytonsecurityinc.com

ERC Resource & Referral 846 Illinois St., Ste. D Lawrence, KS 66044 Phone: 785-357-5171 Fax: 785-357-1813 www.ercrefer.org Reva Wywadis reva@ercrefer.org

Five Guys 2040 B West 31st St. Lawrence, KS 66046 Phone: 785-749-3400 Mike Richey torichey@gmail.com

Fun & Games830 Massachusetts St.Lawrence, KS 66044Phone: 785-727-1486Kyle BillingsFun&games@sunflower.com

Jen’s House & Commercial Cleaning, LLC1520 SW 41st St.Topeka, KS 66609Phone: 785-832-2463 Fax: 785-286-2463www.jenshousecleaning.comJennifer Reedjens_cleaning@hughes.net

Light Bulbs, Etc. Inc.14821 W. 99th St.Lenexa, KS 66215Phone: 913-894-9030 Fax: 913-894-9095www.lightbulbsdirect.comEric Neuteboom eric@lightbulbsdirect.com

Local Burger714 Vermont St.Lawrence, KS 66044Phone: 785-856-7827Fax: 785-856-2685www.localburger.comHilary Brownhilary@localburger.com

Mar Lan Construction1008 New Hampshire St., Ste. 200Lawrence, KS 66044Phone: 785-749-2647Fax: 785-749-9507www.marlanconstruction.comKevin Markleykevin@marlanconstruction.com

Pryor Consulting2220 Marvonne RoadLawrence, KS 66047Phone: 785-764-6566Fax: 785-841-3011www.grandlifecoaching.comJay Pryorjay.pryor@gmail.com

Schendel Pest Services2416 S. PonderosaLawrence, KS 66046Phone: 785-220-4664Fax: 785-843-4766www.schendelpest.comGarrett Countsgarrett.counts@pestzero.com

Seamless Data Systems, Inc. 123 W. 8th St. Lawrence, KS 66044Phone: 620-343-8500 Fax: 620-343-8500www.seamless.netKaren L Belford kbelford@seamlessdata.com Wakarusa Wellness Center4920 Bob Billings Parkway, Ste BLawrence, KS 66049Phone: 785-856-6030Fax: 785-856-6031www.wakarusawellnesscenter.comDr. Scott Risleyrisley22@gmail.com

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Tom Kern, President & CEO tkern@lawrencechamber.com

Beth Johnson, Vice President of Economic Development bjohnson@lawrencechamber.com

Cathy Lewis, IOM Vice President of Membership clewis@lawrencechamber.com

Sue Hack Executive Director, Leadership Lawrence shack@lawrencechamber.com

Hank Booth, Government & Community Affairs Director hbooth@lawrencechamber.com

Christy Bogner Accountant/Director of Operations cbogner@lawrencechamber.com

Natasha Buller Marketing & Communications Manager nbuller@lawrencechamber.com

Adam Handshy Project & Program Coordinator ahandshy@lawrencechamber.com

Sandy Winstead Hadley, Administrative Asst., frontdesk@lawrencechamber.com

Meredithe McCormick Member Sales Executive mereditheandgary@sunflower.comThe Lawrence Chamber of Commerce: (785) 865-4411

STAFFBOARD OF DIRECTORS

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Chair of the Board Matt Hoy, Stevens & BrandPast Chair Bonnie Lowe, United States Attorney’s OfficeIncoming Chair Cindy Yulich, Emprise BankTreasurer Doug Gaumer, INTRUST Bank

Steve Brown, Berry PlasticsBrad Burnside, U.S Bank Co-Vice Chair of Economic DevelopmentTerry Campbell, Barber Emerson Co-Vice Chair of Communications/ OperationsSheryle D’Amico, Lawrence Memorial HospitalDr. Rick Doll, USD 497 SuperintendentShannon Frost, Hallmark Cards, Inc.Bill Fuerst, KU School of Business Co-Vice Chair of Economic DevelopmentGeorge Grieb, Lynn Electric, Inc. & CommunicationsRodger Henry, Lawrence Medical PlazaTim Herndon, Landplan EngineeringFrank Male, Lawrence LandscapeMike McGrew, McGrew Real EstateJeffrey Morrison, Prairie Asset Management Group

BOARD OF DIRECTORS George Paley, Paley Properties/Caspian Group Delbert Phlipot, Amarr Garage DoorSaralyn Reece Hardy, Spencer Museum of ArtTrudy Rice, Rice EnterprisesLinda Robinson, KU Center for Research on LearningJohn Ross, Laser Logic, Inc. Co-Vice Chair of Communications/ OperationsSteve Schwada, Meadowbrook Apt.Todd Thompson, Thompson, Ramsdell, & Qualseth, P.A.Allison Vance Moore, Grubb & Ellis|The Winbury Group Vice Chair of Membership ServicesDebra Vignatelli Konzem, AT&T Vice Chair of Government and Community AffairsDr. Linda Sue Warner, Haskell Indian Nations University PresidentKeith Yehle, KU Chancellor’s Office