2025 Leadership Visit: Madison, Wisconsin | May 14-16, 2025
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The 2025 Leadership Visit presented by Central Bank & Trust Co. took us to Madison, Wisconsin from May 14 - 16, 2025. This annual intercity visit not only enables us to study the best examples of success from benchmark cities across the country.
Both Lexington and Madison boast an exceptional quality of life, diverse economy, large public universities driven by research and development, top-notch healthcare facilities, high educational attainment numbers, and a strong entrepreneurial environment built by collaboration between education and industry to help translate ideas into solutions viable for business.
The Madison region’s largest employers demonstrate the diversity of its economy, recognized by Emsi and Livability as the most industrially diverse MSA in the nation. Leading national brands call the region home, including Epic Systems, American Family Insurance, American Girl, Sub-Zero, Trek Bicycle, Lands’ End, Colony Brands, and John Deere. Entrepreneurs have launched successful start-ups from Madison in everything from food processing to healthcare IT.
Both Lexington and Madison boast an exceptional quality of life, diverse economy, large public universities driven by research and development, top-notch healthcare facilities, high educational attainment numbers, and a strong entrepreneurial environment built by collaboration between education and industry to help translate ideas into solutions viable for business.
The Madison region’s largest employers demonstrate the diversity of its economy, recognized by Emsi and Livability as the most industrially diverse MSA in the nation. Leading national brands call the region home, including Epic Systems, American Family Insurance, American Girl, Sub-Zero, Trek Bicycle, Lands’ End, Colony Brands, and John Deere. Entrepreneurs have launched successful start-ups from Madison in everything from food processing to healthcare IT.
2025 LEADERSHIP VISIT SPONSORS
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Leadership Visit sponsorship opportunities available by contacting Lisa Mahan.
Commerce Lexington's annual Leadership Visit has helped expose Central Kentucky's leaders to the best ideas of model communities throughout the United States, yielding valuable lessons that have been applied to the improvement of the Bluegrass Region. As one of the longest-running and largest intercity visits in the country, this three-day trip has become the most valuable opportunity to bring community leaders, decision makers and ideas together in order to make positive changes in our community. It's a very unique program that includes the foremost business, education, government and community representatives of Central Kentucky.