2023-2024 Dates and Fees

ACG Denver Leadership 20 accepts nominations from senior-level leaders who have a vested interest in the professional development of the nominee. In addition, individuals may also nominate themselves, or be nominated by a Leadership 20 alumni outside their firm who knows them through their professional network. Candidates are required to complete an online application and submit their resume for consideration.

The ACG Denver Leadership 20 2023-2024 Program runs from September 2023 through February 2024. There are a total of eight (8) class sessions. Graduation from the program will take place at the last session.

2023-2024 Program Dates: September 13, 2023 - April 9, 2024
Class will meet once a month for 8 months.

SEP 12: 1:00 - 4:00 pm

Welcome Reception: 4:15 - 6:30 pm

Session 1: Welcome, Introductions, StrengthsFinder & Achieving Exceptional Performance

Speakers: Dirk F. Dykson, Partner, Portocol Business Strategies

Dirk is an expert CEO/Executive Coach, Sales Coach, Sales/Marketing ninja and Workshop Facilitator. With deep experience in technology, SaaS, manufacturing, healthcare, education, and financial services, Dirk specializes in elevating leadership, clarifying strategy, shaping culture, and building/simplifying processes.

OCT 30: 9:00 am - Noon
Session 2: Conversational Intelligence – The Impact of Your Words

Speaker: Stephanie Wachman, Executive Coach, Speaker, Trainer, and Author @ Symetree Strategie

Stephanie Wachman, CEO and Founder of Symetree Strategies is an international speaker, author, Fortune 500 executive coach and strategist who works with organizations and firms to create more efficient work environments through her coaching, training, and consulting services. She is a recognized voice and a thought leader in the areas of business development, firm strategy, productivity and stress management. Her approach to managing time, stress, energy, and distractions produces tangible results for those struggling to make the most of their work and personal lives. 

NOV 14: 9:00 am - Noon

Session 3: The Cost of Compounding Conflict and How to Lead Through Conflict

Speaker: Julie Holunga, Speaker, Leadership Trainer and Coach @ Chinook Executive Solutions

Julie Holunga is a leadership trainer and executive coach developing professionals to lead with influence and authority.  She works with attorneys, CPAs, and business leaders, with an expertise in the careers of female professionals. Her trainings inspire driven professionals to bring their careers to the next level. Through her proven frameworks, Julie shows her clients how to tangibly and concretely build their careers while raising their internal and external visibility. Success for Julie’s clients comes in the form of more productive work relationships, effective communication strategies, advancement, refined leadership qualities, and heightened confidence when navigating their career paths.

DEC 19: 9:00 am – 12:00 noon

Session 4: Storyselling: Shift your Buyer’s Indecision, Master your Influence and Build Massive Trust

Speaker: Bernadette McClelland, Keynote and SKO Speaker

Bernadette has proudly coached Harvard MBA students on their sales enablement curriculum, authored five books on leadership and sales transformation with her bestseller being The Art of Commercial Conversations – Drive Revenue. Increase Margin. Sell A Difference. She has shared leadership stories and sales strategies on stages from Paris to Portugal, Atlanta to Alice Springs, Sydney to Chicago, New Delhi, New Zealand and New York City, Bangkok to Brisbane, and Melbourne to Minneapolis with her memorable Australian accent, feminine approach, and cutting-edge ideas.

JAN 9: 9:00 am - Noon

Session 5: Mental Wellbeing: A New Perspective on Mental Health and how to build Mental Resilience

Speaker: Chelsea Turner Avery, MSW

Chelsea Avery is a social worker turned entrepreneur who knows our minds are the most powerful tool we have for creating our reality and experiencing life. She received her Master's Degree in Social Work from Portland State University. She spent her early career in the nonprofit world before starting her own communication consulting firm with her husband in 2012. Chelsea is a transformational coach, speaker and writer. She lives in Littleton, CO with her husband and two young children.

FEB 6: 9:00 am - Noon

Session 6: Running Effective Meetings: Getting Results & Driving Successful Outcomes

Speakers: Bill.Shepard - Principal Consultant, Portocol Business Strategies and Jonathan.Keller
Principal Consultant, Portocol Business Strategies

Bill Shepard brings a wealth of business leadership experience to his clients at Portocol Business Strategies, a Denver-area management development and consulting firm. Bill’s professional focus is singular: To help his clients achieve peak performance at all levels of management, so their businesses become among the most successful in our community. In his career, Bill has worked directly with C-level leaders in Fortune 500, small/medium-sized business, and entrepreneurial environments as an accomplished executive, project leader, and team builder in numerous high-visibility undertakings in transportation, logistics, telecommunications, and information technology enterprises. Bill is currently an active member of ACG Denver, where he served six years as a board member and Program Chair. Bill holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, and MBA, both from the University of Denver.

With 12 years’ experience at Xerox, ServiceLink, Bumbul, and ESM, Jonathan brings expertise from multiple disciplines of executive management including operations, strategy, client management, sales, marketing, financial planning, business analytics, and leadership development. Jonathan learned the value of hard work while growing up around small-business entrepreneurs. During his career, he’s gained valuable experience and skills in people-development, which led to operations manager positions for multiple fortune 500 companies. This expertise allowed him to transform field and support services into a thriving, profitable division at ServiceLink, where he has produced more new leaders than any other division, decreased losses by 71%, and improved field retention from less than 30% to greater than 90%! Jonathan specializes in process improvement, client management, employee retention, succession planning, business process outsourcing, leadership development, and financial turnarounds.

MARCH 5: 9:00 am - 12:00 noon

Session 7: HOW TO OPERATIONALIZE CULTURE IN YOUR ORGANIZATION

Speakers: Dirk F. Dykson, Portocol Business Strategies and Bill Shephard, Portocol Business Strategies

April 9: 1:00pm – 4:00pm

Session 8: Accountability: How to Create and Ownership Culture

Speaker: Alecia Huck, MAVERICK & Company

Alecia is an organizational development consultant with a wide range of fields from human behavior to linguistic theory to process science. She specializes in providing high-value, pragmatic solutions to complex organizational problems and has extensive experience helping fast growing companies build critical infrastructure and high performing teams as they grow and helping teams quickly resolve and recover from major conflict. She founded MAVERICK & Company in 2004, a small but feisty consulting firm based in Denver, CO that works with a wide range of industries including, retail, construction, manufacturing, professional services, and the criminal justice system.

Graduation reception: April 9 from 4:15 pm - 6:00 pm

2023-2024 Program Location:

The Terrace at Colorado Center Tower 3 - Rooftop

2000 S. Colorado Blvd.

Denver, CO 80222

The fee for this class is $2,250 per student.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us.

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