Kentucky Center for Leadership hosts summit at WKU Innovation Campus
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – On Thursday, the Western Kentucky University Innovation Campus was home to a summit hosted by the Kentucky Center for Leadership, bringing leaders together from south-central Kentucky to learn about the best leadership practices, share stories and ideas and find ways to better themselves as leaders in their own industries.
And for the Kentucky Center for leadership, there was no better place to call home than the WKU Innovation Campus.
“You can’t help but feel the energy when you walk in. They call it the Innovation Campus for a reason. There’s innovation out here. Maybe they should call it the WKU Innovation and leadership campus, because there’s leadership, there’s entrepreneurship going out here, companies that are that are starting, growing, hiring a lot of people, but they’re also leading. And after I talked to Buddy Steen and his team at the new Innovation Campus, it was no question this is exactly where we need to be. It was one of the best decisions we made,” said Greg Coker, president and chief experience officer of the Kentucky Center for Leadership.
There were many guest speakers across many different industries, including generals in the Air Force, higher education leaders and even members of the front office for the Tennessee Titans, and it’s through this wide array of speakers that leaders can grow and learn the most.
“What we’ve tried to do is to create what we call a cross-pollination. And that’s what leaders are craving is an opportunity to be able to share their experiences with other people. If we’re not careful as leaders, we we sort of work in an echo chamber. We’re only with our own industry, which is great, these industries that are represented here are phenomenal industries, phenomenal organizations, but what we find is our leaders are craving that cross pollination. They’re creating their craving that they experience that hopefully we’ve created today,” Coker said.
And the Kentucky Center for leadership’s goal is to create an experience that inspires today’s leaders to make an immediate impact in the work force that they are in.
“They can walk out of our summit saying, wow, that was amazing. I want to go back and implement that within 72 hours, because research says that if you don’t implement an idea or a concept within 72 hours, the likelihood of you ever implementing are slim to none. So we create an opportunity, an inspiration, and motivation that within 72 hours you’re going to implement a lot of the concepts we talked about today,” Coker said.
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