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About Leadership Texarkana

"Leadership Texarkana is the organization with the best chance of producing sustainable, positive change in our community."

-James Bass, LT Class of 2012 


Our Mission

Leadership Texarkana exists to cultivate, connect, and engage leaders in working together for community excellence, pride, and progress.


About Us

Believing that every organization - or community - rises or falls on its commitment to leadership, Leadership Texarkana is committed to:

Educating leaders for our community through:

  • The flagship Leadership Texarkana class, an annual 9-month program for community leaders
  • Today’s Youth, Tomorrow’s Leaders for area high school students
  • Ongoing opportunities for an in-depth understanding of community issues and leadership training for graduates and the community at large

Identifying and celebrating models of exemplary community leadership through:

  • Wilbur Awards
  • Idalee Hawkins | Leader of the Year Award

Most importantly, Leadership Texarkana is invested in engaging greater numbers of caring citizens as leaders throughout the greater Texarkana community through:

  • LIFT:  the Leadership Initiative for Texarkana–by providing the motivation and the means for Working Together for Community Excellence, Pride, and Progress.

"EXAMPLE is not the main thing in influencing others; it's the ONLY thing."

- Albert Schweitzer

 

Why It Matters

Working together is the key to our community’s best future. Texarkana citizens have proven time and again that we are a community of excellence, and we achieve excellence when we work together with a common purpose for the benefit of all.

When we don’t work together, we settle for half as nice and miss opportunities for excellence that would benefit us all: our businesses, our families, our institutions, our city governments, and our region.

Leadership Texarkana is committed to ensuring Texarkana’s best future by fostering a culture and a community full of citizens taking responsibility for and working together for community excellence, pride, and progress!