Leadership LEAP

04/16/2024

🗣The 2024 Leadership LEAP applications are now open! Learn about our region, Empower yourself to improve your community, Attain new skills and tools, and Progress your professional network through this 6 month multi-county adult program!

Apply today to be part of the 2024 Leadership Class! Applications close on May 1st. Leadership LEAP is open to folks who live or work in Estill, Jackson, Lee, Powell and surrounding Counties.

Leadership LEAP is a regional leadership program serving Estill, Jackson, Lee, Owsley, Powell, and W

08/17/2023

Today was a great day in Jackson County!

The morning kicked off touring Jackson Energy headquarters and learning about how their teams serve co-op members and the efforts during outages and emergencies. After that we had a panel with Southeast Kentucky Economic Development Corporation and FOCUS on economic development.

After a delicious lunch we heard from Judy Schmidt about the efforts, headed to Flat Lick Falls Recreational Park to check out the facilities.

We rounded out our day with a discussion on rural infrastructure with the PRTC - Peoples Rural Telephone Cooperative and Jackson Energy.

Thank you to our panelists and hosts! Thanks to our sponsors Appalachian Wireless , Jackson Energy, and PRTC - Peoples Rural Telephone Cooperative!

06/15/2023

We had a great day in Estill County!

After learning about different economic development structures and the Estill Development Alliance, we did some skill building activities. Then we heard about tourism from a local and regional perspective from Explore Estill, Beattyville/Lee County Tourism, and Jackson County KY Tourism.

After lunch, our crew visited Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp. and learned about the multiple facets of economic development happening there and toured the museum.

Finally, we learned about the resources in our region to both support folks in recovery and our local communities from Reliance Works and Marcum and Wallace Hospital and Project HOME.

Thank you to our panelists and hosts! Thanks to our sponsors Appalachian Wireless , Jackson Energy, and PRTC - Peoples Rural Telephone Cooperative!

05/19/2023

We had a great kickoff to our 2023 Leadership LEAP class! Our participants from Estill, Jackson, and Powell counties spent time in Frankfort doing team building and leadership skills exercises, spent some time touring the Capitol and visiting different agencies, and wrapped up with a visit to Salato Wildlife Center!

Thank you to our sponsors Appalachian Wireless and Jackson Energy!

03/14/2023

🗣 Attention Estill, Jackson, Lee, Powell, and our neighboring counties! Apply now for the 2023 Leadership LEAP Class!

This 6-month regional leadership program is designed for up-and-coming leaders in our region to get together, learn about each other as people and as communities, and to share ideas about how we can all work together to make tomorrow better for us all.

Apply by April 14th at LeadershipLEAP.org.

04/18/2022

The Leadership LEAP program is accepting applications now! LEAP is one avenue for the up-and-coming leaders in our region (Estill, Jackson, Lee, Powell, Owsley & Wolfe Counties) to get together, learn about each other as people and as communities, and to share ideas about how we can all work together to make tomorrow better for us all. Leadership LEAP is a six-month commitment by the participants in which they come together once a month around a different topic and in a different community. Topics cover economic development, healthcare, tourism, law enforcement/drug abuse prevention, education, government, leadership skills and team building.
Apply now! www.leadershipleap.org. Applications are Due May 6th!

​ Kentucky’s state motto is “United We Stand, Divided We Fall.” This has never been more true for small rural counties like ours. LEAP is one avenue for the up-and-coming leaders in our...

03/11/2020

2020 Leadership LEAP applications are now available! If you want to help improve your community, LEAP is a great way to make connections and learn more about the region. Applications are due by March 31st. To apply, go to leadershipleap.org.

11/22/2019

Today was the final official activity for the 2019 class of Leadership LEAP. We had an amazing and fun adventure testing out our team-building and leadership skills at Countdown Games in Lexington. Half of our squad escaped their castle under the wire while the other half just ran out of time and remained "cursed" in the Pharoah's tomb. Regardless, we all had a ball! Thank you to all the participants and their employers and all the folks who helped us make this program happen! Also, as always, a HUGE thank you to our program sponsors for making LEAP possible! Appalachian Wireless, New Vista KY, Jackson Energy, Clark Energy, Pickup Country 104.9 FM WSKV, Whitaker Bank, and Marcum and Wallace Hospital!

09/12/2019

Thank you so much MACED for the article! We love the work we do & all of our LEAPers!

If you want to apply for the 2020 LEAP class, keep an eye out for applications this winter!

When leaders from a community get together to share ideas, big things can happen.

Over the past decade, one leadership program in particular has taken off. Leadership Estill County started in 2010, and its organizers quickly realized the power that many counties could have in working together to combat similar issues of economic development, opioid crises, and more. They grew to serve four counties, and now are a six-county effort: Leadership LEAP.

“We begin the year seeing each other as high school sports rivals and being ‘on the other side of the mountain’ from each other, but we finish the year as a unified force and knowing that we’re so much stronger together than we could ever be apart,” said Estill Development Alliance Director Joe Crawford.

Read about this year long program, as well as the many other leadership training program in the state and region: BRIGHT Kentucky, Brushy Fork Institute of Berea College, East Kentucky Leadership Foundation and more!

🔸 https://maced.org/appalachias-new-day/leadership-training/ 🔸