Robin Wise Honored at Leadership of the Rockies Annual Retreat
Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain (JA) announced that our President & CEO Robin Wise recently received the “Leader In Action” award from the Leadership Program of the Rockies (LPR) at their annual retreat. This award is given to a LPR graduate who has displayed leadership, risk, courage, entrepreneurship, and success while promoting the timeless principles of liberty and capitalism.
LPR identifies and brings together emerging leaders from the legal, economic, business, university, and political, nonprofit and civic professions to learn how visionary, principle-centered leadership can positively impact their community.
As the leader of JA, Robin is the driving force for the largest economics education organization in the region and a visionary. Along with her team, Robin launched a campaign to build the JA Free Enterprise Center, which will soon house two state-of-the-art learning labs, the Daniels Fund JA Dream Accelerator and the Robert and Judi Newman JA Finance Park. Together, they will fuse the physical and digital worlds to deliver innovative, inspirational learning experiences in financial literacy, entrepreneurship, and career readiness, reaching an additional 20,000 students annually.
In addition to the achievements as CEO, Robin is active in her community. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Common Sense Institute, actively pursuing public policies that embrace free enterprise. Robin was also named one of the most admired CEOs by the Denver Business Journal, recognized as a force for free enterprise, entrepreneurialism and financial literacy.
“I am honored to receive the Leader In Action award because JA is an organization that embraces free enterprise and teaches the values on which the Leadership Program of the Rockies stands,” said Robin Wise, president and CEO of JA-Rocky Mountain. “Our goal is to arm thousands of students each year with the tools they need to build a future for themselves in which they are optimistic, economically self-sufficient, and determined, with a belief in the power of free enterprise.”
Robin will continue to challenge students to dream big and provide them with a plan to achieve their goals. Her leadership and legacy at JA will stand for many more decades.