Community and Cool Insights - more about the Hill Center Working Group

I spend a lot of time these days in conversations with people, trying to listen more than I talk (with varying levels of success).   This morning I met with Susan Kenny Stevens, who has been so generous with her very wise advice at a few points over the years.  Susan is in the process of retiring as a leader at Larson Allen, in every sense of leadership.  Her practice serves non-profits (clearly, her passion), and she's simply a remarkable person.

I shared with Susan my plans for the upcoming Hill Center Leadership Working Group.  I shared with her my goals for the group: to create a space and community for leaders that is part book group, part "kitchen cabinet," maybe a little bit of support group.  She observed, very simply, that people seek community in groups of this kind, and remembered another group in Denver that people consistently attended and raved about because it gave them "cool insights."

So, if I try to create the community, can we count on the participants to bring the cool insights?   The first meeting is October 24.