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2024 Leadership South County Class V – June Recap

Agriculture day for Class V was vastly educational! It’s always so great to visit and hear from Bejo Seeds USA in Oceano. Our day started with leadership development on Effective Communication by CultureStoke, followed by Tom Ikeda with Ikeda Brothers on farming in South County. Class V then headed to the SLO Farm Bureau and heard from Executive Director Paul Clark and Jean-Pierre Wolff of Wolff Vineyards.
Agriculture is a huge industry in our south county area and we are grateful to learn from a spectrum of providers and businesses! 

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2024 Leadership South County Class V – May Recap

Last month, our class learned about the impacts the tourism industry has in our south county area.
We started the day with CultureStoke and some great insight on the rollercoaster of life. Don’t forget: “If you don’t ask for help, you deny others the opportunity and gift of being able to help.“ Our day followed with guest speakers from many different sectors including hotels, events, marketing and wine!

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2024 Leadership South County Class V – March Recap

Leadership South County Class V has officially kicked off the day session program starting with Health & Wellness at the Matthew Will Memorial Building in Arroyo Grande. Thank you to our Encourage Sponsor, Dignity Health, for hosting us! The class started with an exploration into our Enneagram numbers with Allison Priola from the Priola Group, and followed with guest speakers from the AG Hospital Foundation, 5cities Homeless Coalition, SLO County Behavioral Health and Avila Bay Athletic Club. 

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Leadership South County: August 2023 Update

July 31, 2023 At their monthly day session on July 7th, Leadership South County Class IV learned about agriculture in San Luis Obispo County. A huge thank you to Talley Vineyards for being the day sponsor. The class spent the day touring Bejo Seeds and Talley Vineyards. They heard from amazing guest speakers like Brent…

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Leadership South County: July 2023 Update

July 1, 2023 In June 2, 2023, Leadership South County Class IV’s day session focused on cannabis. Leadership students experienced a thorough tour of all the steps in the local cannabis industry including an introduction of how the industry became legalized. Guest speaker Grover Beach City Manager Matt Bronson spoke on the city’s ordinances, processes,…

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Leadership South County Class IV learns about local tourism at their May day session

June 1, 2023 OCEANO — Last month Leadership South County Class IV’s day session focused on tourism. The day started with leadership development training by CultureStoke where participants learned about communication. Class IV enjoyed lunch provided by Old Juan’s Cantina, followed by a guest speaker from Visit SLO CAL, and a tourism panel focused on…

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