LEAD FOR A LIFETIME WITH LEADERSHIP AUSTIN
Meet the 2024-2025 Cohort
Joe Adamson
Director of Facility Services
Austin Public Schools
Bruno Alves
SPAM Brand Mgr - International
Hormel Foods Corporation
Danielle Belon
Associate Sr. Scientist
Hormel Foods Corporation
Carla Berg
Medical Surical Nursing Supervisor
Mayo Clinic Health System-Albert Lea & Austin
Ashley Blilie
Associate Research Scientist - Product Development
Hormel Foods Corporation
James Brown
Jail Administrator
Mower County Sheriff's Office
Greg Chelberg
Controller
Quality Pork Processors
Zach Fadness
Sr. Staff Engineer
Hormel Foods Corporation
Taylor Flugge
Program Coordinator - Austin Assurance Scholarship
Riverland Community College
Jamaal Gibson
Property Mgr, Section 8 Specialist
Austin HRA
Emily Heath
Clinical Research & Outreach Program
Hormel Institute-University of Minnesota
Dalton Hoover
Supply Chain Mgr
Akkerman Inc.
Berghyn Hull
Marketing & Resource Development Coordinator
United Way of Mower County
Rosy Kanyamaw
HR Technician
Hormel Foods Corporation
Todd Lechtenberg
Exec. Director of Finance & Operations
Austin Public Schools
Ashley Lunt
Child Support Supervisor
Mower County
Ianet Mojica
HR Manager
Quality Pork Processors
Salie Olson
Youth Services Librarian
Austin Public Library
Dave Pike
Chief Deputy
Mower County
Eric Rahrmann
Assistant Professor
Hormel Institute-University of Minnesota
Isabelle Reuter
Healthy Living Director
YMCA
Kory Robinson
Finance & Customer Care Director
Austin Utilities
Matt Schmit
AHS Principal
Austin Public Schools
Kathleen Stanley
Admin Assistant
Mayo Clinic Health System-Albert Lea & Austin
Matt Verdick
Deputy County Administrator
Mower County
Aimee Whiteaker
Sr. Project Mgr. - Innovation
Hormel Foods Corporation
Daneka Wiechmann
Development Associate/PTTP Coordinator
Hormel Institute-University of Minnesota
WHAT IS LEADERSHIP AUSTIN?
Leadership Austin is a community-based education and leadership development program that provides participants an intense look at the business, agriculture, politics, education, quality of life, health care, human services, public safety, and diversity of our community, Austin.
In Leadership Austin, you will learn much about your community. You will give back even more.
2024-2024 COHORT SCHEDULE
- August 22, 2024 – Kickoff 5:30pm – 7:00pm
- September 12, 2024
- October 10, 2024
- November 14, 2024
- December 12, 2024
- January 9, 2025
- February 13, 2025
- March 13, 2025
- April 10, 2025
- May 8, 2025
Regular monthly sessions occur on the second Thursday of each month - September through May, from 7:30am - 4:00pm.
LEADERSHIP AUSTIN COHORT REPORT
Why Leadership Austin?
Build
Identify, cultivate and inspire successive generations of community leaders to take action and accountability to face the challenges facing the Austin area.
Gain Stakeholders
Connect next local and business leaders to care and be involved within the community.
Relationship Building
Explore interrelationships of the local area with government and business.
Sponsorship
Investors in this program know the value of investing in our future leaders to support our region long-term.