Courthouse Journal Blog

While working with WACO President & Kittitas County Treasurer Amy Cziske’s 2025 theme, Time to Lead, WACO staff realized that membership at large truly resonated with the theme’s focus. Through their regular communication with the WACO team, many members echoed the same sentiment – I always want to be a better leader.

It’s wild to think that just six years ago the concept of coming together was incredibly different. Pre-COVID, a hybrid or virtual conference was more of an outlier. Reserved for large-scale corporations with offices across states and countries, hybrid events were associated with the tech industry in general. You know, folks that actually had the knowledge of how to put one on!

In a world that's constantly shifting, where there's always more to do, the best leaders must make time to become even better. This is the key message behind WACO’s 2025 Annual Conference theme Time to Lead. June’s Packed Lunch session led by Sharon Andrade of  HLeadership kicked off a handful of leadership and management trainings that WACO has scheduled throughout 2025 and beyond to help our members harness even more of their powerful leadership skills. Sharon’s work enables teams and leaders to achieve goals and accelerate results by equipping them with insights, tools and skills to leverage strengths and address obstacles - and her session People: Difficult or Different? is now available on the WACO Education Hub.