Our HEART for the Holidays event was a festive opportunity to come together with our community, honor exceptional leaders, and make a meaningful impact for kids across Colorado. We awarded members of our community with the HEART-Level Leadership Award, the newly introduced Leadership Ignition Award, and gave a couple surprise Lifetime Achievement Awards.
We tasked the CiviCO members with nominating individuals that embodied our values and contributed fiercely to their peers and communities. We received several nominations for the HEART-Level Leadership Award and the Leadership Ignition Award, but two individuals rose to the top.
What is the HEART-Level Leadership Award?
We believe that HEART-Level Leaders are the embodiment of key attributes at the intersection of creating vision and holding space for others. This award is given as a well-deserved recognition to a community member who personifies all aspects of being a HEART-Level Leader: Humble | Engaged | Authentic | Regenerative | True to Service
2024 HEART-Level Leadership Award Winner: Rick Goodmay, Director of Client Relations, ICM Colorado
Rick was nominated by members of his Strategic Connections chapter where he serves as President. He was nominated because Rick shows up as his true self every day. He is always collaborating and bringing positive energy to others and checking on his people both personally and professionally. He brings his skillset and historical knowledge to the table to find solutions for his friends, clients, and other businesses around him.
Rick is a humble servant to his community, as well. He wants to see people succeed and win no matter where they came from or what their skillset is. Rick volunteers speaking to youth about opportunities in trades, the global importance of collaboration, and how to find success in their careers through care, kindness, and authenticity.
But more than anything, Rick goes out of his way to make sure everyone feels comfortable and welcome, just as his mom would bring everyone together around the dinner table to find comfort and solve problems together.
Read Colorado Construction & Design’s piece on Rick winning this award HERE!
What is the Leadership Ignition Award?
This award honors a CiviCO alumnus, member or supporter who is actively working to ignite or unite cultures of leadership across Colorado. Whether from the public, private or community sectors, this individual is someone who inspires others and creates impact through values including: Collaboration | Connection | Compassion | Community
2024 Leadership Ignition Award Winner: Erin Autrey, Owner, Causeworthy & 3 Story Design
Erin was in our 2021 Governor’s Fellows cohort and was nominated by another cohort member. She exemplifies all of CiviCO’s values personally and through her work in perinatal substance use disorders, leading the creative vision and execution of the Tough as a Mother campaign.
Tough as a Mother requires that she collaborate and understand the connection between policy, lived experience, motivation, funding, and engagement of partners across the state. If that were not enough, the compassion that she brings to the issue of using substances in pregnancy and postpartum including the shame, fear, uncontrollable addiction, and journey that these women face is unequalled. Erin created a space for them to see each other, feel heard and supported, and begin to lead the work for others. She is the anchor behind the Tough as a Mother collaborations, connections, compassion, and a new community.
Erin’s work on the Tough as a Mother Campaign has brought national interest to Colorado. Erin and her state agency partners have been approached by several states asking to create and adapt the Tough as a Mother campaign based on its ingenuity, relevance, and approach.
Erin cares about this work far beyond a contract or a paycheck. This work is her way to share with these mothers and offer them space to find a way forward.
Lifetime Achievement Awards
CTLF and CiviCO would not have been possible without the contributions of our steadfast benefactors over the years. Our staff decided to start the tradition of a Lifetime Achievement Award to honor those that have driven our missions and fostered collaboration between our organizations and the community at large.
Doug Sparks, Owner & Manager, Bridgepoint LLC
We first honored a founder of CTLF and one of our lifetime supporters and steadfast board of advisors members, Doug Sparks. You only need to be near Doug to feel calmed and self-assured. Doug is seen as a trusted advisor to not only his business associates but to his friends and the entire CTLF community. As a fractional CFO, Doug finds clever solutions and creates strategic plans that are effective and thorough and create .
Doug has always been an integral part of CTLF and the board of advisors. He never fails to lift up those around him and genuinely cares to listen to what others have to say. When you’re talking to Doug, you know you’re being heard. And that is so rare and wonderful in a leader and friend.
Ryan Heckman, Managing Partner, RallyDay Partners
It was a no brainer that our second honoree would be CiviCO trustee and founder, Ryan Heckman. As a visionary leader and a driving force behind Colorado’s civic growth, Ryan’s impact resonates deeply across the state. As the founder and one of the original funders of CiviCO, Ryan has been instrumental in shaping a culture of leadership that ignites and unites people from all sectors. His commitment to bridging private sector success with public service has created a vibrant, multipartisan space where leaders collaborate for the greater good, making a profound difference not only in their industries but in Colorado’s civic fabric.
From his work with the Colorado Governors Fellowship to the Colorado Citizenship Medals, Ryan has cultivated a legacy of sustainable change and empowerment. His courage to challenge norms and dedication to advancing others have laid the foundation for a statewide civic infrastructure.
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