Step Into a Thoughtful, Energizing Leadership Experience
What does it look like to lead well when perspectives differ, systems feel strained, and time is short?
Building Bridges is a dynamic 90-minute session designed for cross-sector leaders who care deeply about their community and want practical tools for navigating complexity with clarity, steadiness, and purpose.
This is not a debate.It’s not a policy workshop.It’s a space to strengthen how you show up as a leader when difference, pressure, and imperfect systems collide.
Why This Session Matters
Leaders across our region share a common goal: contributing meaningfully to a strong, thriving community. Yet many are navigating:
Healthy communities include difference.The challenge isn’t disagreement — it’s how we lead through it.
This experience gives you a shared framework and practical leadership tools you can bring back to your organization, board, and civic roles immediately.
What You’ll Experience
This 90-minute session blends teaching, reflection, and guided practice to keep you engaged without forcing debate or personal disclosure.
You’ll participate in:
The design intentionally avoids policy problem-solving and instead builds your capacity to lead with steadiness and clarity across difference.
What You’ll Walk Away With
Participants will:
Why Leaders Find This Valuable
If you’re looking for a meaningful, engaging learning experience that strengthens your leadership presence — especially in complex environments — this session is for you.
Come ready to reflect, practice, and build bridges that support lasting community progress.
Facilitator: Andrea Palm-Porter | Executive Director, Roaring Fork Leadership
Andrea Palm-Porter is a leadership strategist, facilitator, and civic ecosystem builder who works across nonprofit, public, and community sectors to strengthen leadership capacity, trust, and collaboration throughout the ColoradoRiver + Roaring Fork Valleys, and State of Colorado.
As Executive Director of Roaring Fork Leadership, Andrea designs and leads leadership experiences that helpindividuals and organizations navigate complexity, work across difference, and contribute to stronger, moreconnected communities. Her work integrates emotional intelligence, adaptive leadership, systems thinking, and real-world application that supporting leaders to move beyond good intentions toward practices that create durable impact.
Over the past year, Andrea has been an active participant in the Belonging Colorado Communities of Practice, astatewide initiative convened by The Denver Foundation to strengthen belonging across Colorado. Through thiswork, she has engaged with leaders from across the state to explore the research, frameworks, and practices thathelp communities bridge differences, foster connection, and increase civic capacity.
She is now bringing these practices, combined with building a leadership ecosystem with the Boettcher Foundation and civic ecosystem with CiviCo and Civic Canopy across the state, into organizations and leadership spaces throughout the region supporting nonprofits, civic groups, and cross-sector leaders to build shared language around belonging, navigate polarization more constructively, and model leadership behaviors that strengthen connection rather than division.
Andrea’s facilitation style blends research-informed frameworks with practical leadership application. She isknown for creating spaces where leaders can step back from positions and pressures, reconnect to shared purpose, and develop the relational skills needed to lead in complex community environments.
Her work is grounded in the belief that thriving communities are built not just through programs or policies, but through leaders who know how to listen, bridge across difference, and create the conditions for people to belong and contribute.
She brings nearly four decades of experience developing leaders, facilitating complex conversations, and supporting organizations and communities to navigate change and create progress together.
This is in an in-person event only. There is no live-stream option available and it will not be recorded.
Eagle Public Library
Event will be held in the Alpine Bank Community Room.
Free for nonprofit professionals and board members!
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