Core Values

After 15 years as a community leadership development organization, Leadership Buffalo realized its work had begun to be driven by a set of common values. A value is "a principle, standard, or quality considered worthwhile or desirable." Here at Leadership Buffalo, our core values define who we are as an organization and as a whole. In 2000, a task force was formed to help identify and define what those values were. Several years and hundreds of hours of discussion later four values were identified: service, diversity, inclusion and openness to change. These four values define what the goal of Leadership Buffalo really is and our classes and teachings revolve around these four values.

Leadership Buffalo's Core Values

To view the full description of Leadership Buffalo's values, please click here.

In 2004 Leadership Buffalo held its inaugural Values Awards Luncheon. What inspired LB to hold this Luncheon? The Values Committee had been working on the development of a set of core leadership values and they felt that this event created a way to communicate the values of "service, diversity, inclusion and openness to change" by recognizing leaders who best exemplified these standards.

Another reason that the Values Awards Luncheon was established was because most of Leadership Buffalo's communication and fundraising efforts are within its own member base. For LB to truly be a community asset we needed to communicate to the larger community who we are and what we do. Fundraising is a critical component to Leadership Buffalo's bottom line, because without it, tuitions would be significantly higher, preventing several leaders from participating or even considering a LB program. This is the only Leadership Buffalo corporate fundraiser for the year.

Leadership Buffalo's Values Awards Luncheon

To read more and to view pictures of the Luncheon, please click here.