Innovation on the Road: When Black Belts Vacation Together
By Sarah Moss, Strategic Programs and Government Affairs Manager, Denver Fire Department May 2017 In early May, I set out from Denver on a road trip to the Great Sand […]
Hiring the Best Talent in Less Time
Hiring the Best Talent in Less Time The Department of Human Resources’ Talent and Acquisition Team (OHR-TA) believe that good processes can always be better processes. Their mission is to […]
City Rock Stars Selected for Local 40 Under 40
On March 16, City and County of Denver employees Jamie Torres and Will Chan were honored by the Denver Business Journal as winners of the 2017 40 Under 40 awards. Jamie […]
Get Some Pull and Flow: How I got my team to be innovators in the workplace without formal training
By Lt. Rob Rock During the Peak Academy’s Black Belt training, several admonitions and suggestions were given concerning how to begin. I thought two were particularly cogent. The first was, […]
Finding Ways to Innovate Through Collaboration
Written by Steve Friesen, Director/Curator of The Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave, Denver Parks & Recreation Remember Tom Sawyer? He got a fence painted by persuading his friends to do […]
Four Months of Focusing Within: Dalton Weisshaar and the Power of Changing What We Can Control
Dalton Weisshaar attended the Peak Academy Black Belt training in July of 2016 and in just four short months, he has already completed four innovations. Those innovations have saved the […]
Flowerbed Magic
Denver’s parks are filled with some of the most amazing flowers and flowerbeds in the state of Colorado.
The Peak Performance Celebration is Just Around the Corner
It is with great pleasure to announce our first ever Peak Performance Celebration (PPC) on Friday, September 30th from 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM in the Webb Municipal Building Atrium. Let’s kickoff […]
Confessions of a Newly Minted Black Belt
By Kathryn Gamelin, Deputy Court Clerk, Westminster Municipal Court Hello from Westminster! My name is Kathryn Gamelin and I graduated from Peak Academy, Cohort 53. As part of a process improvement […]
Spreading the Data Love
Written by Jessie Rubin, City Performance, Office of the Controller, City and County of San Francisco I am a proud data nerd. That’s what City Performance does to you. City Performance […]
Bright Spot: Juan Garza
Sometimes innovation starts with a “No”. Juan Garza, a cashier in Denver Public Works’ Finance and Administration, attempted an innovation shortly after taking Peak Academy’s Black Belt class. He wanted […]
Public Works: Transportation & Mobility and the Peak Academy Experience
Public Works: Transportation & Mobility (PWT&M) and the Peak Academy Experience By Liz Lorang The inquisitive looks must happen quite a bit when a Denver Peak Academy Process Improvement […]
Improvements to processes at Denver Human Services directs money back to families in need
One of the most important metrics that we calculate in the Peak Academy is value to the customer. While “soft dollar” savings relates to time saved and “hard dollar” savings […]
Making Internal Operations as Beautiful as a City Park
In fall of 2015, an effort to clean and organize the storage facilities in Denver’s East Parks district started. Both Oxana Trotsenko and Adam Smith set a course for a more […]
And Action! How one Colorado agency’s five minute play changed how we think about Ignite Presentations
At the end of every Black Belt training course that we do here at the Peak Academy we have a very special segment called “Ignite.” Ignite is a presentation format […]
Q and A with Donna Levesque, Administrative Manager with Loudoun County Animal Services
Donna came to Peak Academy Black Belt training in May of 2015 in effort to improve processes at the Loudoun County Animal Shelter. While with us, it was clear that […]
