Thank You for an Exceptional Year
Attending our Leadership Foundation board retreat last week was bittersweet—it was my first and last retreat as the Foundation's executive director. I am excited to announce that I have been called to Washington, D.C., as a presidential appointee to serve at the associate administrator of the Office of Entrepreneurial Development at the Small Business Administration, where I will continue my own civic leadership journey. I was moved to tears by our outgoing chair, Dan Lewis, who told me that when he started thinking about my departure he thought about words he felt that defined me: passionate, persistent and purposeful. Then he mentioned one that he felt: proud.
I don't have enough space in this newsletter to share all the memories that have been made in this past year, but I would like to say thank you to each and every alumni or friend of the Foundation who I have had the pleasure to meet and work with over this past year.
To our alumni and friends: You are the Leadership Foundation. You provide the spark and encourage each other to continue to innovate and push forward for the betterment of our community.
To my Leadership Foundation team: You make sure the Foundation doesn't just run—you make sure it sprints. Your commitment, creativity and humor have ensured that we continue to move beyond success as an organization and toward greater significance.
To my colleagues at the Denver Metro Chamber: Thank you for supporting me during my eight years with you. It has been an incredible experience I will not soon forget.
Thank you all for your support, encouragement, ideas, laughter and not being afraid to dance like no one's watching for our Harlem Shake video. I'm excited for the new challenges ahead for myself and for the Foundation, and I look forward to keeping an eye toward Denver to see what exciting new innovations you dream up.
Be inspired!
Tameka Montgomery
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