One never quite knows what our Member Engagement Committee has planned for us in May, but you can bet it will be interactive, will require some soul searching and will allow you to get to know other DAB members better! Based on the feedback we got on the April 12th meeting that Julie Mansfield led, it promises to be something not to be missed! Feel free to bring a guest if you like.
Bill Mosher is Senior Managing Director for Trammell Crow Company (TCC), with responsibilities for real estate development in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region. TCC is a multi-product developer or industrial, office, residential, life science and mixed use projects. Bill will provide an overview of the Front Range real estate market. He will also highlight certain large scale developments in our region, as well as review certain challenges facing the real estate development industry.
Founded in 1948, Trammell Crow Company is the nation’s leading developer and investor in commercial real estate. TCC has developed or acquired 2,800 buildings valued at nearly $70 billion and over 625 million square feet. As of December 31, 2021, TCC had $18.5 billion of projects in process and $9.3 billion in its pipeline. It employs more than 675 professionals in the United States and Europe. TCC has been operating continuously in Colorado since 1958, with recent noteworthy projects including: Crossroads Commerce Park, Denver Water Operations Complex Redevelopment, Riverview at 1700 Platte, Thornton Crossing Amazon Distribution Facility, and Denver Union Station Multi-Modal Transportation Complex.
Blendification … Leading in a rapidly changing, complex, distributed environment
By Dan Bruder
At our March breakfast meeting, we will hear from Dan Bruder, co-founded Blendification to help reinvigorate business as a positive force in society. With today’s remarkable volatility in labor and consumer markets, many businesses aren’t adapting at the pace necessary to stay ahead of external changes. Social and technological factors are making it easy for employees and customers to disconnect leaving business leaders lost. In response, businesses are focused on short-term fixes and overlooking the heart of the issue and the related opportunity. Human beings need to connect and belong, and business needs to serve this core desire to realize potential. Essentially, we need to stop seeking the mythical work-life balance and pursue the reality of work-life blend.
Dan’s commitment to blending work and life to enhance the lives of employees, customers, and communities is highlighted in his TEDx Talk, “The Blendification of Work and Life builds Communities.” The process by which organizations accomplish Blendification is outlined in his book, “The Blendification® System: Activating Potential by connecting Culture, Strategy, and Execution.” Further, his company created the Strategy Whiteboard and Personal Whiteboard which have been digitalized leading to a new industry segment called ConsulTech (consulting technology).
The Strategy Whiteboard and Personal Whiteboard software apps unify and streamline traditionally high-priced and time-consuming strategy, leadership, and personal development consulting programs providing efficient access to everyone in the company through technology. As a result, companies can proactively adapt to external changes and fulfill employee’s core human needs of connecting and belonging and this can be done through work.
Our Prez is pulling out all of the stops for his last official breakfast meeting as the DAB President.
Rumor has it Sean Plumb and the Honey Badger’s will be performing live some of your favorite holiday tunes as well as some classic rock…ssssshhh, not sure, but this may happen.
There will be skits, costumes, other musical adventures, inspirational speeches and possibly a visit from the fat man up north. This is one you don’t want to miss.
Bring a guest or two, bring your significant other, heck…just pick a random stranger and bring them.
This is also our annual toy drive for Toys-for-Tots. Please bring a new, UNWRAPPED toy to be donated to a child in need this holiday season.
Our very own Bob Dodge will be leading us through an interactive table exercise.
Be prepared to share:
We look forward to seeing you all then!
Bob Deprez, Mobile Wrench
Al Mueller, Excellence in Giving
Many families and companies want to make a difference in the world but have trouble knowing where to start or feel indifferent about their giving. Please join Al as he shares lessons from twenty years of experience advising high-net worth families, companies, and non-profit corporations on how to align their charitable work with their money. He’ll discuss how two ultra-high net worth parents raised kids that understood the true meaning of wealth and service to others and how a corporation changed their giving program to increase employee satisfaction and morale. Al will also share how a non-profit board changed from scarcity thinking to abundance mentality and received a seven figure gift.
Al Mueller, President of Excellence in Giving, has 20 years of experience serving some of the most generous families in America. Excellence in Giving helps families align their values, passions, and priorities with their wealth. Those families gave almost $90 million to 981 high impact nonprofits in 2020. Since inception in 2002, Excellence in Giving clients have given almost $500 million to local, national and international organizations.
Jean Ginzburg has been in the digital marketing space for over thirteen years – servicing clients, working with partners and managing strategy. She is a serial entrepreneur and digital marketing expert helping companies scale revenue, optimize sales and marketing processes and improve productivity. Jean is also the CEO of the agency Ginball Digital Marketing. Ginball’s clients range from brand name Fortune 500 companies to innovative start-ups. In 2017, Jean launched JeanGinzburg.com, an education company bringing digital marketing strategies to up and coming entrepreneurs and startups. Jean‘s passion is empowering entrepreneurs and business owners. She gets up everyday striving to help businesses achieve their goals. After being a veteran in the digital marketing space, Jean mostly focuses on consulting businesses, speaking engagements and digital thought leadership
Platte Canyon High School in rural Bailey, Colo., doesn’t have a wood shop program. The town is landlocked and doesn’t have a lake. But the school has a yacht club. Kip Otteson will join us to share the story of how he and four other teachers helped students create the Platte Canyon Yacht Club. In 2018 teachers at Platte Canyon were wondering what kind of project could teach students about STEM, teamwork, and perseverance. Then they heard about a 70-mile open water ocean race that takes place over 48 hours off the coast of Washington State. They challenged students to design and build a boat from scratch that could compete in the race. The students embraced the challenge and built a huge boat that could hold 18 people. They trained and competed in the 2019 race and again in June 2021. Kip will share the lessons learned in challenging students to embrace a big challenge and how they overcame them as a team.
Our very own Peter Melby will be presenting:
Boss or Babysitter?
Building a sustainable culture of success
Leaders shouldn’t have to babysit team members, but we all end up doing just that at some point. Teams encounter a conundrum: When we trust employees to act on their own, they often don’t do what we need them to do. When we micro-manage them, they don’t perform to their potential and everyone is miserable. We get burned either way. The ticket out of “The Babysitter’s Club” is surprisingly simple, yet nearly always overlooked. Peter Melby, CEO of Greystone Technology, shares stories and experiences outlining the journey to deeply successful culture in an IT company with over 100 team members. He’ll share a simple, proven methodology for organizations at any stage to communicate effectively with team members and avoid the people problems that all successful IT teams must overcome. Peter has shared these insights across the US, Europe, Australia, and Asia in an effort to redefine our global approach to company culture.
Bio
Peter Melby is the CEO of Denver-based IT service provider, Greystone Technology, a six-time Inc. 5000 honoree and a seven-time Top Workplace winner. Peter has been named one of Colorado’s Top 25 CEOs, 40 Under 40, Titan 100, and a ChannelPro 20/20 visionary. His leadership at Greystone has led to 17 consecutive years of growth and consistent recognition for market innovation. Peter speaks globally on topics related to scaling successful culture, disrupting traditional IT ineffectiveness, and common-sense cyber security.
