In April of 2014, I graduated from the Arts + Business Council’s Designing Leadership program. I was going through the beginning of the demise of At Media, a creative agency I cofounded in 2009. No one knew it, but our business was hanging on by a thread, and our employees later told me that they had their resumes ready, poised to leave the organization ASAP.

Change was more than necessary.

My decision to enroll in the program was the first action I took to improve my organization and myself. I wanted a better future for us. We deserved it. At Media was contributing to the region’s creative economy in a valuable way, and we were determined not to let it fail.

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