Cashiers starts leadership program
The inaugural Leadership Cashiers class recently launched its seven-month program with an opening retreat at Mountaintop Golf & Lake Club. The Cashiers Area Chamber’s new community engagement initiative is based on a development model used by many cities across the country to prepare and motivate participants to offer quality community leadership.
The program’s mission is to inform, connect and engage individuals by intensively studying issues affecting the area and by building strong working relationships for enlightened, dynamic leadership. A volunteer task force comprised of Ben Harris, Don Jehle, Bob Starkey, Irv Welling, Stephanie Edwards and others worked to establish the program which the Cashiers Area Chamber underwrites and manages.
Fourteen participants will attend regular sessions, held January through September, with subject matter experts on economic development, government, planning & infrastructure, dducation, and health & human services. Personal leadership skills also will be developed through academic and team-building exercises. Angela Owen of Truventure Enterprises serves as Program Director. She is also executive director and course instructor of Vision Transylvania, a similar program in Brevard.
For more information, visit www.LeadershipCashiers.org, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 828.743.5191.
