HAPPENINGS
Stay up to date with Leadership Montana’s current events, blogs, and newsletters.
Announcements
ALUMNI AWARDS!
Each year we honor three people who are nominated by YOU, their fellow LMT alumni. Please help us shine a light on our LMT stars! This year we will be giving the awards at our Celebrate Montana event, June 7th at The Wilma in Missoula. The awards are:
- Mike O’Neill Service Award- This award recognizes and promotes alumni service to support the Leadership Montana program and/or alumni activities. The award recognizes a Leadership Montana Alumnus who has used his or her leadership skills, knowledge, and resources to benefit Leadership Montana. Nominations can be made here.
- Barbara Braided Hair Alumni Leadership Award– This award recognizes and promotes community involvement. The award recognizes a Leadership Montana Alumnus who has had a significant impact at the local or state level, demonstrates outstanding leadership in keeping with and expanding the Leadership Montana philosophy in his or her community or the state, and serves as an example of leadership for others. Nominations can be made here.
- Tom Scott Award for Excellence in Leadership- As Leadership Montana’s highest honor, this award is given by the Board of Governors to a person who has made substantial, significant, and lasting contributions to Leadership Montana.
ALUMNI SURVEY
We created a survey so YOU could tell us about your engagement with LMT and what you would like to see moving forward. We had 113 of you respond, WOW and THANK YOU! We will be sharing a summary report in the April newsletter and here on this page, stay tuned!
Important financial update!
Leadership Montana needs your help now to continue our mission.
Leadership Montana has a 20 – year commitment to leadership development and civil discourse across our state. In those 20 years, the Leadership Montana experience has made an important impact on our communities as we expanded programming with intense focus on our mission: building a better Montana through knowledge, collaboration, and civility! In these times of great division, we know our mission is as critical to Montana today as it was 20 years ago.
The past several years brought significant changes and challenges to our organization as well as an opportunity to do a deep review of our programming, commitments, and finances. At almost 1,000 alumni strong, we’ve reached more leaders in Montana, built opportunities for legislators to participate in Gracious Space and had dozens of important community conversations about issues confronting our communities and state.
During our review, we also identified emergent challenges in our financial condition that now call us to action. To date, we have reduced our annual expenses by 20% by closing physical offices, modifying service contracts, streamlining our program costs, and decreasing our staff. We do not take these decisions lightly. Our Board is giving at 100% and each one is increasing their annual giving this year.
We are asking you, our Leadership Montana family, to help us meet our goal by providing additional financial support this year. Our goal now through the end of our fiscal year, June 30th, is $1,000,000. Will you help us now to sustain the future of Leadership Montana?
Please join us in ensuring that Leadership Montana will continue to provide high quality programming and connections for alumni and our future leaders. Thank you in advance for your support! If you would like to connect, please don’t hesitate to reach out. We look forward to hearing from you.
Kelly Heaton-Executive Director, kelly@leadershipmontana.org, 406-270-4527 Aaron Pratt-Board Chair, aaronlpratt@gmail.com, 503-902-2414
There are three easy ways to give:
Preferred-no fees
Make checks payable to Leadership Montana and mail to:
PO Box 5155
Bozeman, MT 59717
- Online at leadershipmontana.org/donate
- Venmo @LeadMT
Events
LMT LIVE-Environmental Sustainability in Montana
WHEN: Monday, April 22, 2024 (Earth Day) from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM.
WHERE: Online!
COST: Free!
Please RSVP by emailing Casey@leadershipmontana.org to get the link!
Pat Hughes & Creating Equity with Gracious Space Event
WHEN: Friday, April 26, 2024 at 6pm.
WHERE: Bozeman!
COST: Free!
If you are interested in attending, please utilize this spreadsheet to sign up: https://docs.google.com/…/1HG4VnRaP77lT5q9oEWWL…/edit…
Montana Giving Days
WHEN: Thursday, May 2nd, 2024, from 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
WHERE: 409 N 10th Ave, Bozeman, MT
COST: Free!
Join Leadership Montana’s Development Director Heather Collins at her house for Bozeman’s Annual Giving Day. Come support Leadership Montana through this day. You are welcome to come and go as you are able! Alumni, Class, and special guests are invited!
LMT LIVE-Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) heritage month with Juanita Vero, Tung Pham, Vu Pham, & David Park
WHEN: Monday, May 6, from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM.
WHERE: Online!
COST: Free!
Please RSVP by emailing Casey@leadershipmontana.org to get the link!
Celebrate Montana!
Join fellow alumni and the Flagship and Masters Classes of 2024 at our annual event to celebrate graduation and our amazing organization! Dinner, music, photo booth, live and silent auction, fun games; a celebration of connection you don’t want to miss!
WHEN: Friday, June 7 2024, from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM.
WHERE: The Wilma Theater at 131 S Higgins Ave, Missoula, MT 59802
COST: $125 per person, Reserve your spot here!
Gracious Space Mastery
If you are interested in:
- Deepening your practice of Gracious Space,
- teaching this practice to others,
- or using in a strategic way with your team, we invite you to consider training to be a certified facilitator.
Patricia Hughes offers mastery trainings in Seattle and virtually every year. In-person trainings are two days long, virtual courses occur in 4 separate multi-hour sessions. Several deliverables are required to complete the certification.
If you are interested in this training, please complete this interest form. For more information, please contact Hatton Littman at 406-600-6076 or hatton@leadershipmontana.org.
This training is available to alumni of the Leadership Montana Flagship programs.
New Executive Director
Leadership Montana is proud to announce the hiring of our next Executive Director, Kelly Heaton of Red Lodge. Kelly joined the team on June 1.
Read more about Kelly here and connect with her by email kelly@leadershipmontana.org.
LMT Live Archive
Disclaimer: We are not professional Zoomers. Please forgive any chunkiness.
Sustainability & Environmental Stewardship (only last 20 minutes)
Higher Education Demographic Cliff in Montana
Power & Energy Resources in Montana
Youth Leadership Development in Sports
Gracious Space with Patricia Hughes
Ethics and Social Responsibility with Dr. Gerald Evans
Personal and Professional Resilience with Aaron Pratt
Human Trafficking in Montana with Paula Eberling
Situational Leadership with Shannon Stober
Coping with Stress in a Pandemic with Diane Conti
Budget and Federal Stimulus with Llew Jones
Leading in Crisis with Frank Garner
Public Service and Leadership with Kyle Waterman
Building Context for Effective Leadership with Shannon Stober
INTENTIONAL CIVILITY SPECIAL SERIES
Listen Deeply with Courtney McKee
Smile with Amy Kellogg Unfortunately this recording only has the audio, which is ironic we know since we’re talking about “Smile”. We’re sorry.
Show Concern for Others with Leonard Malin
Empower Others with Anne Hughes
Alumni Awards
Tom Scott Award for Excellence in Leadership
As Leadership Montana’s highest honor, this award is given by the Board of Governors to a person who has made substantial, significant, and lasting contributions to Leadership Montana. Current team members (board, staff, trainers) are not eligible for this award.
Recipients
2023 – Chantel Schieffer
2023 – Dr. Gerald Evans
2022 – Amy Kellogg
2021 – Lanny Hubbard
2020 – Brenda Peterson
2019 – Mike O’Neill
2018 – Chad Lippert
2017 – Bruce Whittenberg
2016 – Ron Sexton
2015 – Mike Halligan
2014 – Carol Donaldson
2013 – Tom Scott
Mike O’Neill Alumni Service Award
The Leadership Montana Alumni Service Award recognizes and promotes alumni service to support the Leadership Montana program and/or alumni activities. The award recognizes a Leadership Montana Alumnus who has used his or her leadership skills, knowledge, and resources to benefit Leadership Montana.
Recipients
2023 – Indigenous Advisory Committee
2022 – Leslie Messer
2021 – Eric Halverson
2020 – Jim Bliss
2019 – Inaugural Men’s Retreat Planning Committee
2018 – Heather Collins
2017 – John Carmody
2016 – Chad Lippert
2015 – Carmen McSpadden
2014 – Mike O’Neill
Barbara Braided Hair Alumni Leadership Award
The Leadership Montana Alumni Leadership Award recognizes and promotes community involvement. The award recognizes a Leadership Montana Alumnus who has had a significant impact at the local or state level, demonstrates outstanding leadership in keeping with and expanding the Leadership Montana philosophy in his or her community or the state, and serves as an example of leadership for others.
Recipients
2023 – Juanita Vero
2022 – Chuck Winn
2021 – Marci McLean
2020 – Courtney McKee
2019 – Hatton Littman
2018 – Jen Hensley
2017 – Michael Sanderson
2016 – Eric Hyyppa
2015 – Duane Ankney
2014 – Barbara Braided Hair