Tracy Houston - Board Advisory Consultant

Ms. Houston is a board advisory consultant headquartered in the Denver, Colorado area. With a focus on leadership, strategy and risk management, she consults primarily with directors, presidents and senior officers providing input on high level, sensitive and complex issues. Houston, with six years of experience as a sitting director, was one of the nation's youngest women to sit on a board in the electric utility sector where she provided leadership during a period of industry change driven by deregulation, privatization, technology and globalization forces. She is the past chairman of the board of the International Center for Appropriate and Sustainable Technology. Together, her board roles span the evolutionary to revolutionary decision-making environments. In 2008 she was inducted into one of Colorado's local women's hall of fame groups.

Houston has provided strategic counsel at congressional, state and local levels with appointments that include the presidential task force that developed Colorado’s Report on Race Relations, Energy Advisory committee in the Office of the United States Congressman Coffman, Economic Development Advisory Committee in the office of United States Congressman Beauprez and Colorado’s Statehouse Small Business Report. 

An internationally published author, Houston’s work has been seen in many publications from The Denver Business Journal, and The Center for Healthcare Governance's Trustee Magazine, to the U.S. Green Building Council.

At the podium, Houston shares her compelling insights on how directors that deliver can improve bottom line results. She explores the highly dynamic governance environment, assessing how U.S. companies can create an edge with board composition. She has appeared on numerous local news programs and the television show Colorado State of Mind.

Her book, Leading By Belonging: A Pathway to Knowing Yourself, delves into today's key leadership traits that create sustainable competitive advantage.

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