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BreakThrough 
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2025 Overview

2025 Overview

  • Prepare to “break through” the limits that have been placed on you as a leader, and soar to new heights!

  • Open to 16 Colorado residents in senior leadership positions within their organizations or communities

  • Delivered in-person in Colorado Springs

  • Week-long (Monday-Friday) learning session

  • Serve as mentors for participants and project teams in other programs

All CLI programs are offered at no cost to the participant which includes reimbursement for travel expenses

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This program is designed for:

Community leaders across Colorado, who are well-established in their roles, and currently hold positions of senior leadership within their community-based organizations. For the purpose of this program, senior leaders are defined as those who are responsible in their organization in the following ways: developing and/or carrying out the strategies, overseeing a primary function, holding a position on their executive team or reporting to the executive team, and/or are responsible for the work of other managers.

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    • WorkPlace Big Five Profile™

    • Influence Style Indicator™

    • Conflict Dynamics Profile®

    • The Leadership Landscape for health equity in Colorado

    • Understanding Your Leader Identity

    • Framing Your Intent

    • Securing Collective Action

    • Creating Successful Impact

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    • Week-long, in-person learning session on CCL’s campus in Colorado Springs

    • Programming emphasizes personal health, connection, and wellbeing for the benefit of community health

    • Key Leadership Challenge to work on throughout the program week

    • Ongoing connection with a dedicated group of peers to serve as a community of practice for senior leaders in community health

    • Dedicated facilitator who provides 1:1 and group support for building mentoring capabilities

    • Ongoing skill-building through monthly Roundtable Discussions

    • The System.  Gain awareness of systems we are operating within (present state); gain awareness of the people in those systems and how we usually engage; identify opportunities to secure more contributions 

    • Me – Who I Am.  Present state; explore natural tendencies when centered and when stressed, as well as the social conditioning that created this version of you

    • My Vision.  Explore a path forward and decide how you want to show up as the best version of yourself 

    • Us.  Practice behaviors and actions that contribute to healthy team dynamics and forward-movement on goals; and increase alignment between intent and impact as a leader 

    • The Collective.  Prepare to launch the plan you've set for yourself; hone your vision for your key leadership challenge and establish personal leadership goals

  • Please review the pre-application pdf information before applying to the BreakThrough program.

"I was skeptical at first, I wasn’t sure what to expect, if this was just another leadership program or if I would actually be walking with something different than all the others. I can say I walked away much different than the other programs I attended.”

2024 BreakThrough Participant

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Additional Details

This program is focused on increasing health equity for local communities across Colorado. The week-long learning session will take place in the central location of Colorado Springs, at the Center for Creative Leadership.  The session requires overnight stays at the designated hotel and offers a variety of activities throughout the day, including leadership framework discussions, large and small group work, reflection and goal setting, meals, social activities, and wellness practices.

As a participant in this program, you will join the CLI Mentoring Circle, where you will be provided with in-depth mentoring training. You'll practice your skills by mentoring participants in other programs on a 1:1 basis.  Additionally, following the in-person learning session, you will work with a project team as the group's mentor over the course of several months, as they complete a health equity impacting project.

This includes:

  • Attending six (6), 60-minute online workshops that provide instruction for the project deliverables

  • Monthly (at least) check-in meetings with your project team to discuss their challenges, celebrations, and support needed

  • Attending monthly check-in meetings  to share progress and obtain support

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"Health equity exists when there are no unnecessary, avoidable, unfair, unjust or systemically-caused differences in health status."
- The Colorado Health Foundation

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