One of Greater Mankato Growth's goals for our public affairs work is to increase our region's visibility and impact by getting community members appointed to serve on key state boards and commissions. These citizen-led bodies shape state policy on a number of issues of importance to our marketplace and the entire state. We've seen some success in meeting this goal over the past year.

By Shannon Gullickson, Talent Programs DirectorIMG_1736 No! was the overwhelming response of current Leadership Institute participants during last week’s “Educating our Community’s Future Leaders” session.Greater Mankato Growth’s Leadership Institute is known for bringing together some of the best and brightest talent working in our community today. So you may ask, how can these participants be outsmarted by 8th graders? Through technology – that’s how!
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