Leadership Olathe Information

Mission Statement

Improve and strengthen individuals and the Olathe community by identifying, inspiring, and involving those persons who have displayed a capacity for leadership and providing a means for directing participant involvement into community leadership roles.

Applications for 2008 program were due Sept. 12, 2007.
Thanks for your interest.
Plan to apply in August/Sept. 2008 for 2009, if interested.

Length of Program: Eleven full-day sessions begin in mid October and are held throughout the fall and winter, culminating with graduation in late April / early May.

Selection Basis: Each year, up to 24 men and women are selected from the Olathe area for admission to the program. Additionally each Olathe high school selects two students to go through the Leadership Olathe program.

Cost: Tuition is $1000. Partial tuition scholarships are available. (See Scholarship Guidelines.) Tuition includes all meals, books and materials as well as all out of town transportation when leaving the city of Olathe.

Goals/Topics: "Improve and strengthen individuals and the Olathe community by identifying, inspiring, and involving those persons who have displayed a capacity for leadership and providing a means for directing participant involvement into community leadership roles."
The Leadership Olathe program endorses and supports the goal of the Kansas Community Leadership Initiative (Kansas Health Foundation) to make Kansas the best state in America to raise a child by the year 2020. The curriculum of the Leadership Olathe program is reflective of that goal.

A program of the Olathe Chamber of Commerce Foundation Fund.

Additional Program Information
Scholarship Guidelines

To view the tentative 2008 Session Schedule, click here.

To see the roster of Leadership Olathe Class of 2008, click here.
Archived Rosters (recent years) are also available.