Greater Missouri Leadership Challenge
Stephanie Mills, Manager of Communications, Member Services, and Economic Development for Tri-County Electric in Lancaster, has been accepted into the 2024 Greater Missouri Leadership Challenge program. Mills, along with 40 other women professionals, will participate as a member of its 2024 class.
The Class of 2024 will be the 35th Class of the program with challenge participants totaling over 1,300 participants since its inception in 1990. The Challenge program is the premiere women’s educational and professional development program in the state. This one-of-a-kind experience is designed to provide a unique, statewide traveling symposium composed of emerging and established women leaders to join together for insightful symposium sessions, personalized tours, issues discussions about each community, and receive training to further their leadership development within their organizations, communities and our state.
Cohort members attend twelve full-day educational & professional development sessions in four different regions of the state. The Challenge participants meet community leaders throughout the state and study aspects of each community including city, county, and state government, history, economic development, not-for-profit partnerships, education, public policy, various industries, and current issues impacting the local community, region, and state.
A sustained goal for the Greater Missouri Leadership Foundation is to increase the return on investment for organizations that have empowered their women leaders to take "The Challenge" by utilizing an evolving Strengths-Based Leadership component plus utilizing metrics to track progress and results amplifying GMLF's GuideStar/CANDID Platinum Status. Upon graduation, each challenger joins an alumnae network that remains an empowering experience for proven women leaders and continues to offer lasting rewards for both employees and employers.
About Greater Missouri Leadership Challenge
Greater Missouri Leadership Challenge is an annual traveling symposium established in 1989. Each year, in a highly competitive selection process, a limited number of emerging and established women leaders are accepted into program membership. The participants meet for four, three-day enriching sessions combining continuing education in leadership development, information and major discussion of state policy issues, and exposure to the philosophies and thoughts of the state’s business, cultural, educational and political leaders. Applications for the 2025 challenge year are accepted through September 30, 2024, and are reviewed in the order in which they are received. greatermo.org