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About the DAB

Denver Advisory Board

In 1975 the Denver Advisory Board (DAB) was founded with the purpose of bringing business and community leaders together and promoting the development of new relationships that bring value to their organizations as well as the community.

The DAB delivers additional value to members by facilitating presentations, programs and events throughout the year that offer:

  1. Opportunities to widen social circles, spheres of influence, positively impact our community and create new business relationships.
  2. Forums for encouraging business growth and exchanging management ideas.
  3. Knowledge that expands our perspective and awareness on issues connected to our business, our community and our professional futures.

Meetings

We meet monthly on the 2nd Tuesday of every month. Click here for future meeting dates.

Marquee Events

And get together socially three times a year for our marquee events:

  • New Year Kickoff Party (January).
  • Golf/Dinner Event (July).
  • Fall Social (September).

Other Events

Other events that are organized in between our monthly meetings include:

  • Quarterly Happy Hours typically held at an office of one of our members.
  • Multiple community outreach volunteer events are organized each year.
  • A ski day, bowling event and bike event.
  • Members are encouraged to meet one-on-one for coffee or lunch.

Mission Statement

Bring business and community leaders together and promote the development of new relationships that bring value to their organizations as well as the community. Deliver additional value to members by facilitating presentations, programs and events that provide:

  • Opportunities to widen social circles, spheres of influence, positively impact our community and create new business relationships.
  • Forums for encouraging business growth and exchanging management ideas.
  • Knowledge that expands our perspective and awareness on issues connected to our business, our community and our professional futures.

Objectives/Expectations

To continue to be one of Denver’s premier organizations, we have established objectives for our Board of Directors and expectations for our members.

Board of Directors – Objectives

  • Provide opportunities for members to contribute to the success of each other through networking, social events and peer advisory groups.
  • Attract high quality and engaging speakers capable of delivering valuable and useful knowledge.
  • Attract business owners, partner-level professionals and senior executives who are committed to investing time to build strong relationships and have a strong desire to impact their community in a positive way by helping others.
  • Create opportunities for members to impact their communities in a positive way.
  • Provide opportunities for members to improve their visibility within the organization.


Member – Expectations

  • Meet one-on-one with another DAB member monthly.
  • Make at least 4 professional introductions for other members each year.
  • Identify potential new members in open sectors and invite them as guests.
  • Be exemplary in your contribution to your community by attending one of our various annual community outreach activities.
  • Attend 7 out of the 11 monthly meetings.
  • Attend 2 out of the 3 marquee events put on by the DAB annually.

Benefits

The DAB is committed to providing the following benefits to members:

  • Monthly meetings with opportunities for networking, a hot breakfast and informative speakers.
  • Ability to bring guests to monthly meetings that may enhance your relationship with that person either personally or professionally.
  • Ability to participate in a peer advisory group.
  • Opportunities to volunteer time with other members of the DAB to both strengthen relationships and make a positive impact on your community.
  • Social events throughout the year to engage with other members.
  • Opportunities to promote your business through member spotlights and newsletter features.

Board of Directors

President

Alex Dvorak

Transworld Business Advisors

Past President

Adams Price

Aptum Capital Advisors

Secretary

Robin Whitelaw

RWCI

Treasurer

Carter Freeman

vcfo

Member-At-Large

Solomon Muwanga

Huntington Bank

Community Outreach Chair

Darrell Suer

Partners PEO

Events Chair

Sarah Wilhelms

HD Productions

Member Engagement Chair

Lisa Smith

PuzzleHR

New Member Chair

Paul Rizzo

Moody Insurance Agency

Peer Advisory Groups Chair

Doug Phelps

Compass Realty

Programs Chair

Brian DeLaet

EduCyber, Inc.

Committees

DAB Committees, Committee Chairs and Committee Members

Community Outreach Committee

Community Outreach Committee Chair: Darrell Suer, darrell@partnerspeo.com

Committee Members: Kris Jensen, Matt Nagy, Joe Zanone 

Responsibilities

  • Accelerate relationship building among members through shared volunteer events.
  • Positively impact the community.
  • Partner with volunteer organizations whose vision, mission, goals and objectives align as closely as possible with those of the DAB.
  • Organize and facilitate quarterly volunteer events.
  • Provide “other” opportunities for DAB members to give back to the community throughout the year.


Goals

  • 50% member participation goal for all volunteer activities.
  • Provide opportunities at a wide variety of times, geographic locations and types to encourage all members to at least volunteer one time a year.
  • Effectively communicate monthly through newsletters, the DAB’s website and verbally at each monthly meeting on all upcoming community activities.
  • Utilize member testimonials in communication plan to raise awareness and increase excitement among DAB membership.
  • Formalize partnership with Junior Achievement (JA) in an effort to develop a long-term partnership benefiting both organizations.
  • Occasionally hold networking events after activities to further relationship building.

Events Committee Chair: Sarah Wilhelms, swilhelms@hdprod.com

Committee Members: Jim Hall, Dean Miller, Cynthia Wellbrock

Responsibilities

  • Organize monthly meeting catering and A/V needs.
  • Organize annual events and catering for:
    • New Year Kickoff Party.
    • Golf/Dinner event.
    • Fall Social.
  • Organize Quarterly Happy Hours.
  • Organize other events such as the ski day, bowling and a bike event.
  • Continue to promote the events through a variety of communications (verbally at the meetings, in the newsletter, Meetup reminders).


Goals

  • Increase event participation.

Member Engagement Committee Chair: Lisa Smith, lisa@puzzlehr.com

Committee Members: Lonnalee Anderson, Sarah Andrzejczak, Jeff Aronheim, Paul Heffner, Ron Jensen, Dean Miller, Bryan Schwartz

Responsibilities

  • Assist our members in gaining maximum benefit based on the DAB’s purpose:  “Creating and growing professional friendships resulting in personal & business success.”
  • Provide a variety of opportunities for members to engage with each other to grow relationships.


Goals

  • Increase response rate in our annual survey that “Being a DAB member helps my business.”
  • Increase response rate in our annual survey that “I plan to renew my DAB membership next year.”
  • Achieve at least 90% retention of members annually.

New Member Committee Chair: Paul Rizzo, paul.rizzo@moodyins.com

Committee Members: Ken Galecki, Ron Jensen, Colin Kresock, Cindy Skerjanec, Linda Montgomery Streeter

Responsibilities

  • Continue to expand membership in identified and targeted business sectors.
  • Maintain optimal membership diversity.


Goals

  • Educate members about new electronic nomination and application process.
  • Reinvigorate targeted recruitment – build on progress made in the years prior.
  • Ideas to get new members announcement to DAB members.

Peer Advisory Groups Committee Chair: Doug Phelps, dougmovesyou@gmail.com 

Committee Members: Bob Carrothers, Kevin Mackessy, Anne McMichael, Kevin Sullivan, Vince Tinnirello, Bob Zarlengo

Responsibilities

  • Provide members an opportunity to build member relationships by knowing and understanding other PAG member’s businesses.
  • Provide members a venue to receive structured peer-advisory support, insights from other business owners & executives and a forum to receive feedback, ideas, and advice from other members.
  • Ensure DAB PAG Facilitators are engaged, trained and committed to their groups.
  • Ensure groups work well; have proper structure and accountability.
  • Assist facilitators with topic generation upon request.


Represent DAB PAG Initiative in front of membership, potential members and the public.

  • Recruit both facilitators and group members.
  • Help members leverage each other as “trusted resources.”


Goals

  • Assist facilitators as needed with improving member accountability to their group and their group members.
  • 5 PAG groups at capacity and stable.

Programs Committee Chair: Brian DeLaet, brian@educyber.com                        

Committee Members: Bob Carrothers, Dennis Guse, Tanner Mason

Responsibilities

  • Enrich and enhance the DAB member experience.
  • Create a positive experience for guests as prospective new members.
  • Schedule speakers that can provide valuable, useful and interesting content to members at monthly meetings:
    • Focus on a diversity of topics such as leadership, growing a business, communication, Colorado business and economy, and inspirational as requested by the membership.
  • Provide knowledge that expands our perspective and awareness on matters connected to our business and professional lives.
  • Organize panels and roundtables each year.
  • Maintain an alternate networking or event plan in the event of a last minute speaker cancellation.


Goals

  • Maintain speaker requirements:
    • Good public speaker.
    • Interesting topic.
    • Applicable topic to our business or personal lives.
  • Have a balance between business, local, national and international issues.
  • Seek input from all DAB members for speakers and topics.
  • Maintain and grow the committee and ensure members are actively involved in the selection and presentation process.
  • Collaborate with the Board to identify a successor to lead the committee after an appropriate period of time.