Thirteen years ago, Alicia Cuaron took stock of her life. She was a successful professional in her mid-fifties with a doctorate in education, a respected leader in Denver’s business and Latino communities and the heart of a network of friends and colleagues.

In many ways, she had made it, s More ...

A Denver caterer ran up to Elbra Wedgeworth recently with tears in her eyes. Wedgeworth wondered what was troubling her. After a lifetime in public service she’s used to people approaching her with problems.

But this woman hugged Wedgeworth, saying, "I just want to thank you. The Democ More ...

When Roxane White took over the Denver Department of Human Services in 2003, she faced a growing homeless population, a huge backlog of food stamp requests, an underappreciated workforce and orders to lay off 25 percent of her staff.

"It was a dire time for social services," she says. & More ...

Lisa Schomp has the spacious corner office of Ralph Schomp Automotive and is the leader of the perennially No. 1 ranked ColoradoBiz woman-owned business. But Schomp still sports casual shoes today — brown work boots covered with dust from the construction site of her new 70,000-square-foot BMW More ...

Since 2002, the Circle of Latina Leadership has been training emerging Hispanic leaders and now counts more than 100 alumni. The nine-month program, now managed by the Hispanic Chamber Education Foundation, provides 100 hours of leadership training, including two weekend seminars, Saturday programs More ...

Bad news. Good news. Let’s start with the bad: Baby boomers are leaving corporate America.

They are either starting their own entrepreneurial ventures, or they have invested well and plan to retire and go live the good life. This can be a challenge for businesses that have relied on the wor More ...

Because of Heidi McLean, people who work on movies can be sure they’ll get paid, and people who get voted off reality television shows know there will be a camera crew waiting for them at home.

At least that’s part of what McLean’s two Golden-based companies, PayReel and Crew Co More ...

Women rising up the corporate ranks might be reluctant to demand top dollar — so happy to be snagging that CEO seat that they don’t ensure the salary they’re accepting matches what their male counterparts make.

Big mistake, Colleen Abdoulah would tell you.

The president and c More ...

A few positive words can last a lifetime and shape a life

This is most likely the first life lesson I learned. Certainly, it is the first I remember. I was around 10 years old. My family lived in Buffalo, N.Y., but I was visiting my Uncle Gil at an Army base near Washington, D.C.

It was probab More ...

Cyd Szymanski is a full-time student at the University of Denver, pursuing a degree in developmental cognitive neuroscience. Debora Hankinson is close to wrapping up studies at the Denver-based Nutrition Therapy Institute after three years of taking classes mostly part-time.

What’s notable More ...

"Beware the Ides of March!" the soothsayer shouted from the crowd not long before Julius Caesar was assassinated. Two thousand years later, it’s still a prescient warning.

On March 15, the media reported that:

• The dollar fell to a record low of $1.56 against the euro and More ...

I think we can all agree that of all the businesses we could be in — publishing, mortgage lending, commercial or investment banking, real estate, high tech, retail, et al — pretty much last on the list these days would be "air carrier."

Being an airline seems to be one of th More ...

Remember the George Carlin routine about the differences between baseball and football?

"Football has hitting, clipping, spearing, piling on, personal fouls, late hitting and unnecessary roughness," Carlin would say. And then he’d pause, and purr quietly into the microphone that b More ...

A 55-acre industrial park under development in Grand Junction is helping the community meet demand for property by manufacturers and similar firms.

Bookcliff Technology Park, situated on the northern edge of the city less than a mile from Grand Junction Regional Airport, already has dissuaded one More ...

Gypsum airport is the state’s third busiest, thanks to tourists bound for ski resorts

You know of DIA, of course, but have you heard of CIA — as in Colorado International Airport?

That’s the name proposed by a consultant who was asked how the airport that is currently the sta More ...

The 432-acre Louisville property that ConocoPhillips bought in February for $58.5 million will be a catalyst for the fuel giant to supply energy in different forms, a company executive says.

Steven R. Brand, ConocoPhillips’ senior vice president of technology, provided a few insights in Mar More ...

When Melanie Braidich arrived in Denver from Southern California as president of Verizon Wireless' Mountain Region in January 2007, she thought about her personal brand — how she'd introduce herself to the 1,100 employees in the five-state region to give them a glimpse of who she is. < More ...

Telecommunications and humanity have hooked up in an initiative to help the homeless find jobs and get off the streets. Colorado Community Voicemail, founded in 2004, is a critical element of Mayor John Hickenlooper’s Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness.

Spearheaded by Multi-Link and Liberty More ...

Company: VideoBloom Inc.
Where: Greenwood Village
Founded: Q4 2006
www.videobloom.com

INITIAL LIGHT BULB
The serial entrepreneur behind VideoBloom doesn’t stay in one place for too long.

"Every four years, five years, th More ...

Somewhere in America, there’s a price-reduced house for sale. Somewhere in this great land of ours there’s a mortgage crisis, a credit crisis, a looming recession. Somewhere there’s a real estate agent soberly assessing his or her frail, flailing, failing career.

Somewhere, mayb More ...

BEYOND A PEANUT FLASHCARDS
A frightening incident in 2004 led Dina Clifford to start her company. As the mother of two children with severe peanut allergies, her young son’s "accidental bite" of a peanut-butter sandwich led to a doctor’s visit and a realiz More ...