Lessons in Leadership

In 2016, we made a commitment to our Authorized Partners who have been certified on programs within Jill Hickman Companies Signature Service Curriculum® to provide opportunities for learning and growing through co-facilitation opportunities with other partners within our Authorized Partner Network . Rather than hosting public workshops for individuals from a variety of organizations throughout the Houston area, we took another approach. We decided that providing a leadership development curriculum to a Houston area non-profit, charitable organization would be a great way to afford our partners the opportunity to work and learn together while at the same time, give back to our community. How we chose the charity There are so many wonderful charities throughout Houston that provide valuable and needed services. We soon discovered that choosing one was not going to be an easy task for us – we love them all. Again, we took a different step. Instead of selecting the charity ours...

We have had the honor of working with leaders and employees of   BMC Building Materials and Construction Services ,   Coastal Flow Measurement Companies ,  Enbridge , and  Spectrum Geo  for several years. In that time, we have admired the consistency of their sustainability efforts and the results that they produced. We invited their Talent Managers, OD Managers, HR Directors and Managers, and Marketing Directors and Managers to a special breakfast at Irma’s Mexican Restaurant in Downtown Houston to meet each other and applaud their organizational results obtained from our workplace training implementations. From that first meeting in January, 2016, the five of us (pictured in photo from left to right: Elizabeth Wojtowicz, Jennifer Wall, Nannette Daugherty, Leah Yeglin, and Jill Hickman) agreed that there was much learning to be shared with other organizations. We continued to meet on a regular basis to plan and deliver a presentation for members o...