Boulder Chamber Leadership Academy Series

The demand for leadership talent in today’s business environment has never been greater.  The capacity to guide teams toward business objectives is critical in the face of global competition and demanding investors.  Develop your own leadership skills by registering for the Boulder Chamber Leadership Academy.  This engaging series is directed by Gordon Riggle, a former Navy Captain, Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Administration, leadership lecturer at the University of Colorado, and strategic planner for advanced business development with Ball Aerospace.  Limited to the first 20 participants, Gordon will help you hone your own leadership style and prepare you to take charge amidst increasingly complex business challenges.

This is a four-part leadership series. Registration includes all four sessions:

Thursday, May 15
What Makes a Successful Leader? 

Thursday, August 21
I.Q. vs. E.Q.: Leading with the Heart and Mind

Thursday, November 20
Building and Leading Great Teams

Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Case Study on Leading in a Crisis

 

Gordon Riggle is an accomplished leader in government, business and the military.  Today he teaches course in leadership and strategy at the University of Colorado and has consulting practice in leadership, strategy, and government relations.  
 

Prior to moving to Colorado, Riggle served at the White House as Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Administration.  The Office of Administration provides round-the-clock support to all agencies within the Executive Office of the President.  Before that appointment, he worked as a Professional Staff Member of the United States Senate.  He also served on the Presidential Transition Team as Special Assistant to Secretary of Defense.

 
During his military service, Riggle was a Captain in the United States Navy, commanding the destroyer USS KINKAID in the Pacific and a “Swift” patrol boat in Vietnam. In shore assignments, he was Military Assistant to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and served in various long range planning roles.
 
Throughout the 1990s Gordon did strategic planning and advanced business development with Ball Aerospace, first in Washington, D.C. and later in their Boulder headquarters.  Riggle was also elected to three terms on the Boulder City Council and served from 1997 to 2005.
 
An outdoor enthusiast and distance runner, Riggle competes in marathons and mountain trail races. He is a member of the Community Affairs Council of the Boulder Chamber of Commerce and former member the board of Boulder Tomorrow. 
 
His education includes a master in public administration from Harvard University, the Program for Senior Executives at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and bachelors in philosophy from Lafayette College.  Gordon and his wife Marietta, a management consultant, live in Boulder.  They were foster parents for infants and toddlers with Boulder County for ten years.