Doing Good in the Community: LWC ‘Retaining Young People’ Project
LWC Class XVII "Retaining Young People" community project presentation.
Doing Good in the Community: LWC ‘Healthy Eating’ Project
Watch participants of Class XVIII present about their project which encouraged kids to eat healthy foods!

Early Bird Discount Ends June 15!!

Everyone likes to save money, right?! Apply for Class XX by June 15 and received a $50 discount off the cost of the program. Apply online or drop off an application. Important info can be found here.

L W C – Class XIX Graduation will be Thursday, May 9!

L W C Class XIX will have a Graduation program on Thursday, May 9, 2019 at the Par 4 Resort located at 201 Foxfire Drive in Waupaca. The evening will include a dinner, a presentation of community projects by the participants, and the graduation ceremony. It has been another wonderful year getting to know this […]

Exploration of Systems Thinking

Exploration of Systems Thinking by Casey Gardner We began our new journey into systems thinking with a broad question- What is knowledge? This was an interesting question since we as humans just “know” what knowledge is. A simple description appeared to be that knowledge is our experience, practice, growth and flexibility. It is based on […]

A Day in the Capital – Learning Leadership with the Leaders of our State

A Day in the Capital- Learning Leadership with the Leaders of our State Session 5 LWC Taylor Sorenson

Day One at the Capital

Day One in the Capital Building by Wendy Hoppa As our group entered the Capital building, we were all in awe of its beauty and eager to start snapping photos of the history before us. This was a highly anticipated trip for the leadership group, and it definitely did not disappoint. Our first speaker was […]

Local Leadership Makes Local Government

Local Leadership Makes Local Government by Thiago Souza Below I have highlighted a few key learnings from Class XIX’s session 4, which took place at the Waupaca County Courthouse and was focused on Town, Village, City and County Government functions. Waupaca County Corporation Counsel Diane Meulemans started our morning with a thorough presentation breaking down […]

All Things AG – the Importance and Impact of Agriculture in Waupaca County

All things AG – the Importance and Impact of Agriculture in Waupaca County by Annette Spieth Below are a few of the highlights from Leadership Waupaca County’s agriculture day: We started the day at Fietzer Dairy Farm in Manawa. The family operation milks their cows using 6 robotic milkers with each unit milking 50-60 cows […]

Building our Individual Strengths – Functioning Together – Changing our Communities

Building our Individual Strengths – Functioning Together – Changing our Communities by Alison Acker We started the session with a discussion about the assigned readings and videos we did over the month, getting into the mindset of applying these tips and skills to our own lives and how we can take these skills to become […]

Doing Good in the Community: Retaining Young People

As a group, we all found that it is becoming increasingly obvious that employers in our community are having a challenging time retaining employees. Often employees will find themselves directly out of college starting out their working career in the Waupaca community. Once they have a couple years of work experience, they will move to […]

Doing Good in the Community: Class XVIII Healthy Eating Team Project Presentation

With the growing trend in obesity in Waupaca County and the lower income statuses of many of our county’s residents, our team felt that it was necessary to develop a healthy eating initiative to help young students develop a wider perspective on alternative healthy snacking choices that are available. We responded by developing a program […]