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The CEO Spotlight, brought to you by Colorado Business Roundtable and hosted by Michael Brown, provides a window into the lives of the CEOs who drive Colorado’s economy by supporting their employees with jobs and benefits, creating valuable products and services, responding to stakeholders, providing tax revenue, funding vital charities, and providing leadership on issues that matter to Coloradans. Business is a force for good in our community. When business succeeds, communities succeed, we all succeed.
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Will Colorado legislative efforts to ease worker shortages make any difference?
Legislators seek to cut credentialing red tape and other barriers to entry. But some business leaders say their effects will be incremental at best. Read Full Article on Denver Business Journal
‘Tax it, and you’ll get less of it’
The January Consumer Price Index saw the U.S. inflation rate jump to 7.5% in urban areas in the past 12 months, and the Denver metro rate was 7.9%. Fueled by supply and labor shortages, irresponsible government spending, and rising demand, inflation is eroding...
SOTU – Colorado Business Response
Interview of Debbie Brown, President, Colorado Business Roundtable with Brian Sanders, Denver7 News on March 2, 2022. https://youtu.be/pR1HT9cJeHw
Polis pledges to save businesses money during recovery
In his final State of the State address of the year, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis told members and guests of the Colorado Business Roundtable on Thursday of his office’s ongoing efforts to reduce fees and regulations for businesses, increase the talent pipeline with...
‘We are Still Recoving’ Business Leaders Ask Colorado Legislature for Restraint
SETH MCCONNELL | DENVER BUSINESS JOURNAL With potential regulations regarding employee car travel and workplace harassment lawsuits on tap, organizations are seeking minimal action. And they want the Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund replenished. CLICK HERE TO READ...
Common Sense Institute Holds Inaugural Free Enterprise Summit
BY FREDA MIKLIN GOVERNMENTAL REPORTER On December 14, the Common Sense Institute (CSI) held its first annual Free Enterprise Summit in the third-floor dome of the AMG National Trust Bank in Greenwood Village. AMG President and CEO Earl Wright, who is also co-founder...
GUEST COLUMN: Saudi Arabia’s ‘desert is blooming’ — for Colorado
Saudi Arabia wasn’t on my bucket list of places to visit for business or pleasure; it should have been. Colossal economic changes are transforming the once oil-dependent nation into a high-tech, diversified economy under the direction of Vision 2030, the nation’s...
Colorado Business Roundtable seats new board members
The Colorado Business Roundtable has named five new board members to lead the think tank and advocacy organization. Mark Kennedy, president of the University of Colorado System, joins fellow board newcomers: Lloyd Lewis, president of Arc Thrift Stores Kenneth Monfort,...
Denver nonprofit CEOs say doubling down on purpose led to pandemic survival
Denver-area nonprofits, faced in some cases with even tougher restrictions on revenue-raising than for-profit businesses for the past 18 months, have doubled down on their purpose or in some cases returned to their somewhat lost mission to reestablish relationships...
Struggles continue for Colorado nonprofits navigating the pandemic
Nonprofit CEOs to meet for roundtable discussion DENVER — Nonprofits play a vital role in building strong communities. Colorado has more than 20,000 in the state. A recent study by the Center of Disaster Philanthropy found a prolonged recession could result in the...