By Kelly Bell
For the past 24 years Leadership Tyler has toiled to produce leaders who can and will guide the Rose City into a profitable and happy future. The organization has now announced the choice of Colleen Colby as Viagra its new executive director. She will be replacing outgoing director Cindy Klein, who served in this capacity since 2004 and has now accepted a position with Mentoring Minds.
“I feel privileged to be selected for this opportunity to work with people who are so committed to leadership,” she said. “I am delighted to be part of this historic organization as we approach Leadership Tyler’s 25th anniversary. My plans are to work buy acomplia with the team to continue to offer insightful programs for leaders in the community.”
She was still living in Maryland when she became interested in and applied for membership in the organization.
“The first people I met when I moved to Texas were people in my Leadership Tyler class,” she said.
Leadership Tyler Board of Directors President Joan Andrews is also delighted to have Colby on board.
“We are very excited to have someone with Colleen’s skills and leadership experience to lead our organization,” she said.
By working with several companies Colby became very experienced in development, training, education and communications. Her last post was with PBS&J. In the U.S. Navy she served as a journalist with the rank of second class petty officer aboard the USS Puget Sound off Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War. She took an executive MBA from the University of Delaware, a B.A. in mass communications and political science Pennsylvania’s Bloomsburg University, and even went to Holland to attend international business school.
Her community service record includes Wilmington, Delaware’s Habitat for Humanity, Junior Achievement, Wilmington Food Bank, Delaware Children’s Museum, East Texas CASA, Discovery Science Place Museum, South Tyler Rotary, Tyler Executive Women’s Network, Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts of America, and Leadership Tyler Class 21.
On top of all her other achievements, Colby is an athlete. She is a runner who has competed in multiple races, twice participating in the grueling New York City Marathon. She still manages to find time for her husband and three children.
