Elevated Denver 2022 Business Cohort
Elevated Denver seeks to make progress toward the goal of creating a thriving community by convening voices from our city to find innovative ways to improve the systems in our city. We believe this work must include government, non-profits, businesses and neighborhood leaders and in addition to our podcast, we are developing a variety of approaches to make this happen.
The first two that are ready for launch are the Workshop that is part of Denver Good Business Week, and the Elevated Denver 2022 Cohort which is going to focus on and be composed of people from the business sector in our city. For the Cohort, we are partnering with the Institute for Corporate Transformation to convene 25 people from businesses across Denver to come together in a year-long facilitated cohort to explore how their companies are already creating a thriving community in our city, and where opportunities exist for those companies to further align how they do business with creating an Elevated Denver.
The cohort will go through a cutting-edge program called the Intrapreneur Accelerator which has been developed by some of the leading corporate change agents in the world to achieve the following 5 goals:
1. To get intrapreneurs to reflect on the higher purpose of their working life and to set personal goals for bringing that higher purpose to work with them, transforming, focusing, or expanding their current role as necessary to achieve it. The work of the program is all within this context and has been reported to create the experience of much-increased meaning and fulfillment for past participants.
2. To train intrapreneurs in a specific methodology to be effective in leading change inside of their companies. The methodology was created by Leith Sharpe who teaches it all over the world including for Harvard University. Here is a taste of Leith’s training:
3. To introduce intrapreneurs to a simple, but comprehensive scorecard for the performance of a business in society. The scorecard was born in a meeting in the RiNo neighborhood of Denver and over the past several years it has been refined by and is being used as the definition for success of a global coalition of changemakers who are working to leverage the power of business to create a world that works for everyone.
4. To use that scorecard to facilitate a 360 assessment of a participant’s company by that company’s own stakeholders to identify strengths and opportunities to become a strong company while creating an Elevated Denver. The assessment tool is called the Stakeholder Score and is included at no additional charge.
5. To run a real life 6 month pilot project to drive change in their company in an area of the intrapreneur’s choosing that aligns with the higher purpose of their career.
The course is delivered through an interactive mix of reading, podcasts, videos and reflection exercises as well as sharing and collaboration on a private LinkedIn group with other Intraprenuers from around the country.
Timeline and Commitment
The 2022 Cohort will begin in December of 2021 and will conclude in January 2023. The course materials in the Intrapreneur Accelerator are on-demand and can be completed at any time convenient for the participant. The 2022 Cohort will have monthly progress milestones but will do their work independently.
The exception to this will be a monthly cohort meeting that will be scheduled during the workday at a time that is convenient for the participants in the cohort. The monthly meeting will allow members of the cohort to get to know each other and share their experience, ideas, challenges and ambitions. The Elevated Denver team will also use the cohort meetings to introduce and discuss Denver-specific issue work and learning applications as the cohort works to create an Elevated Denver together by leading change inside of their companies.
It will take cohort participants 4 hours per week on average to complete course materials, do the added work to drive change in their organizations and participate fully in Cohort activities. This is not a small time commitment, but the impact of the Elevated Denver 2022 cohort will not be small either.
Cost
The registration fee is $7,500 per person and the proceeds help to to support the ongoing work of Elevated Denver.
Interested?
If you’d like to participate in the Elevated Denver 2022 Cohort, please send an email to Johnna@ElevatedDenver.co