Denver Peak Academy

01/08/2021

Hi Peak community! We’re moving our content and updates over to our new LinkedIn Page. We’ve had fun connecting with you here and hope you’ll join us on LinkedIn. Visit the link to see our new page and click the “follow” button to get the latest information about inspiring innovations throughout the City of Denver and beyond!

Denver Peak Academy | 5 followers on LinkedIn. Changing the way government operates to improve your experience. | Innovate. Elevate. Repeat.

12/14/2020

Find out what happens when you take a plumbing inspector out of the field and put him into a completely virtual DOTI Black Belt Fellowship. Spoiler alert: record-breaking levels of innovation.

12/04/2020

Join us for our next Peak Academy Book Club Discussion! We will be focusing on the book: Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth. Through engaging discussions, you will take away strategies and concepts to empower you as you innovate and expand your mindset.

Join us for our next Peak Academy Book Club Discussion! We will be focusing on the book: Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth. Through engaging discussions, you will take away strategies and concepts to empower you as you innovate and expand your mindset.

11/25/2020

Targeted universalism is a strategy of setting universal goals that are achieved through targeted approaches, and it can be an effective tool to improve equity. Check out this awesome overview video to learn more about it! How could you apply the concept to your process improvements?

Targeted Universalism is a different way -- a powerful way -- to make the transformational changes we need. Changes we need to improve life chances, promote ...

11/17/2020

We introduced you to our DOTI Black Belt Fellowship Program a couple of weeks ago. Read more about the great work that has come out of this creative program as we spotlight Joey Hernandez and his work with the street sweeping team!

Joey Hernandez spent his DOTI Black Belt Fellowship with the street sweeping team, saving almost 26 million gallons of water and 668 staff hours in the process.

11/16/2020

One of the most powerful tools we have in process improvement is “going to the gemba.” We asked Wade Balmer, one of the most skilled gemba go-ers we know, to share his insights. Check out his blog to learn more about what it means to go to the gemba, the value it adds, and some great tips for how to make the most out of the process.

Introductory Note: In process improvement, we teach the importance of “going to the gemba”. Wade Blamer is a stand-out innovator in the City, and in particular, his innovation superpower is going t…

11/13/2020

The Peak team has three amazing working mothers, and our team collectively has 5 kids with another on the way very soon! We are so proud to support mothers and families with flexible work schedules, teammates who cover for each other, and a truly empathetic and caring leadership team. But unfortunately, this is not the case for most organizations.

According to this striking Harvard Business Review Article, "In September 2020 alone, 865,000 women left the U.S. workforce, compared to 216,000 men. Furthermore, one in four women are considering either leaving the workforce or reducing their work hours."

We must do better! Please read this article and fight for the great strategies recommended. We need women and mothers to stay in the workforce, and to be supported by their leadership and organizations.

865,000 women left the U.S. workforce in September 2020 alone.

11/12/2020

Want to earn your Green Belt before the year is finished? Join us for Green Belt Training on November 18th! Just go to Workday Learning, click 'Browse Learning' and then type "Peak Virtual Green Belt 2020” into the search bar.

11/12/2020

At , we have the opportunity to work with our nation’s heroes every day. Thank you for your heart & continuous dedication to the country. Today, on , & always, we honor you, our nation’s veterans, our heroes. We are the “home of the free, because of the brave.” (unknown) -

11/10/2020

Read Part 2 in our Prompt Payment blog series to learn more about Denver Parks and Rec’s improvements headed up by the awesome Megan Allsop!

This is part two in our Prompt Payment blog series. You can read the overview post here, and learn more about the city-wide improvements that came out of that. In 2019, Denver Parks and Recreation …

11/03/2020

One of the highlights of 2020 for us is the establishment of a new employee engagement and process improvement program in the Denver public works department, Denver Human Resources and Denver Peak Academy.

The program allows for certified black belts in Denver Department of Transportation & Infrastructure (DOTI) to switch jobs for 2-3 months and work on a needed process improvement project with a different team in DOTI.

Read about it's success here! There have been many more successful projects as well, this is the intro. Stay tuned for more on this in the future!

What happens to black belts after they go through the week long Peak Academy black belt training? This question was posed by the Denver Public Works Executive Director Eulois Cleckley, after learni…