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  Leadership Bay County  
   
 
 
     
 
  Leadership Bay County
   
  Objective:
Leadership Bay County aims to provide the knowledge and motivation needed to lead our community through politics, business and non-profit organizations.

How it Works
Leadership Bay County appeals to people of diverse backgrounds who have an interest in the future of our community. The nine-month curriculum is designed to help participants better understand our community by reviewing its history and examining entities and systems. Speakers from businesses, government, education, law enforcement, natural resources, arts, and human services provide information at each session.

Participants are also challenged to develop leadership skills and contribute to our community by selecting and completing a class project.

Since the program began in 1987, an average of 20 people have attended and graduated from Leadership Bay County each year — and many of these attendees are serving in leadership capacities throughout the community.

CRITERIA
The program has several requirements. Attendance and active participation in the two-day kick-off retreat and at least eight of the nine day-long sessions (one per month) is required, as well as completion of assigned homework.

Leadership Bay County begins each Fall and graduates its participants in late Spring. Application is open to any adult member of the community who is interested in the past, present and future of our community and is looking to become personally involved in leading it. For more information on the LBC and a list of past recipients.



What They Are Saying

"The experience was absolutely beyond my expectations! I have always felt blessed to live in such a historical and ethnically rich community, but I found out that it is much more than that.  The view from the inside out of how this community intertwines was fascinating.  The friendships and contacts will remain lifelong.”

Barb Englehardt, LBC Class of 2006
Farm Bureau Insurance

“The LBC core program was instrumental in providing each participant with an inside look at various economic, governmental and social aspects of the community.  Each participant learned their respective personality traits, which helped aid each of us in building our class project and respecting each others similarities and differences.”

Matt Reinbold, LBC Class of 2006
Independent Bank
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