building a stronger community…one leader at a time
Leadership Begins with You
Applying what I learned in SCIL is important because our local businesses, including my work place, have a direct impact on the economic development and cultural fabric of our community. As a new Service Group Leader / Manager, and having moved to Wisconsin specifically to take on my new job, I felt it was important to sink my energies into building and bolstering our Team.
Efforts have paid off and I see better communication and a more effective work group. This will lead to myself and others on my Team having great mental and emotional capacity for involving ourselves in our community. I have also joined our ESOP committee, and we are making strides to connect an ownership culture to company success and continued growth.
Lauren Goff
SCIL was founded and continues to grow as a sort of laboratory space where a variety of leadership tools can be demonstrated, discussed, and brought to bear on contemporary issues. As part of its process, it helps guide participants to explore leadership by engaging them and teaching them how to think outside of the box. It gives people the chance to see leaders in key fields up close and ask them about the challenges they face, the hardships they endure, the wrongs that they are trying to right.
For 9 months participants get incredible opportunities to look at things like education, healthcare, poverty in detail and wrestle with them as more than just sound bites or political tools but instead to just try to embrace and comprehend the complexity of these issues. Even more so to stop and think about how each of us could help solve them. It’s not for the weak of heart, but it’s worth the effort and then some. You’ll learn things about yourself and the world around you. If you’re really inspired and motivated you’ll find or make a way to make a difference. Rauel LeBreche SCIL Board President
SCIL Board of Directors
Rauel LaBreche, President, McFarlanes, Inc
Julia Randles, Secretary, SSM Health St. Clare Foundation
Robin Whyte, Treasurer, Community Foundation of South Central Wisconsin
Thomas Cox, Sauk County Development Corporation
Donna Crary, Compeer Financial
Kyle Crosby, Boys and Girls Club of West-Central Wisconsin
Laurie Killam, WCCU
Logan Littlegeorge, Ho-Chunk Gaming Wisconsin Dells
Kimberly Schwarz, Save Cows Network
Kurt Wenger, Drop Frame Productions
Nancy Zingsheim, First Weber Realtors
We couldn’t do it without our SCIL Instructor
Morgan McArthur
UW Madison Extension-Sauk County
Community Development Educator