{"id":14047,"date":"2018-10-24T22:25:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T22:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/?p=14047"},"modified":"2019-06-30T15:51:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T15:51:52","slug":"a-triumph-of-transformational-leadership-in-the-social-sector-metta-and-keith-krach-honored-with-citizen-leadership-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/a-triumph-of-transformational-leadership-in-the-social-sector-metta-and-keith-krach-honored-with-citizen-leadership-award\/","title":{"rendered":"A Triumph of Transformational Leadership in the Social Sector: Metta and Keith Krach Honored with Citizen Leadership Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Metta and Keith Krach Honored with Citizen Leadership Award<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/i>On October 25, at City Year\u2019s Annual Gala in Levi\u2019s Stadium, the non-profit youth organization will honor Silicon Valley power couple, Metta and Keith Krach, with its <\/span>2018 City Year Citizen Leadership Award<\/b><\/a>. It\u2019s the first time City Year will bestow the honor on a couple, recognizing their inspiration, dedication<\/span> and service to educational causes. What brings the Krachs and City Year together is a shared dedication to transformational leadership, a commitment to paying it forward, and the mission of transforming young lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Metta and Keith Krach, 2018 City Year Citizen Leadership Award honorees<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“I have such great admiration for Metta and Keith Krach, and we are delighted to honor them at City Year San Jos\u00e9\/Silicon Valley’s 2018 gala,” said Michael Brown, CEO and co-founder of City Year. “Metta’s love for helping children and communities, combined with Keith’s passion for leadership and mentoring, generates a powerful force for civic impact in the Bay Area and beyond.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“The City Year Gala is always a memorable evening to honor the world\u2019s most dedicated visionaries,” said Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP and recipient of the award in 2015. “Metta and Keith are leaders of consequence. It\u2019s my honor to congratulate this dynamic duo making a profound impact on people\u2019s lives.”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cKeith and I share a common vision of the world and a deep need to try to help where we can. As we tell our children, it is all about making a difference\u2014a big difference, a small difference, but most importantly, a meaningful difference. This is how we want to raise our children, with a deep spirit of generosity and gratitude,\u201d said Metta Krach.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Power of City Year\u2019s Mentorship Model<\/b><\/p>\n

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Michael Brown, Co-founder and CEO of City Year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

City Year was conceived and founded in 1988 by Michael Brown and his Harvard Law School roommate, Alan Khazei. The two young men were convinced that young people doing volunteer service could play a powerful role addressing some of the country\u2019s most difficult problems. They created City Year to recruit and train young people to give a year of full-time voluntary service to their communities.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since then, City Year has expanded, opening sites in 28 cities throughout the U.S., as well as sites in several other countries, and has focused its mission on helping at-risk students in under-served schools reach their full potential and graduate from high school. To accomplish that, City Year members serve as tutors, mentors and role models in high-need schools. <\/span><\/p>\n

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President Bill Clinton with a City Year staff member<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Inspired by City Year, president Bill Clinton enlisted the help of Michael Brown, Alan Khazei and others to establish AmeriCorps through the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993. Since then, more than 1 million AmeriCorps members have contributed upwards of 1.2 billion hours of public service.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Krach, \u201cMichael, and City Year, are doing a marvelous thing, by instilling in others a notion of the importance of civic duty and civic leadership.\u201d Krach believes that like many countries that require military service at 18, the U.S. should encourage its next generation to serve in some capacity, whether it\u2019s in the military or social service. AmeriCorp members are perfect examples of this.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Krach Connection<\/b><\/p>\n

Krach\u2019s first introduction to City Year came at the organization\u2019s 2016 Gala, when Krach\u2019s friend, Microsoft chairman, John W. Thompson received the City Year Citizen Leadership Award.<\/span> As it turns out, John Chambers, former CEO of Cisco, Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP, and Shantanu Narayen, CEO of Adobe were honored with the award in the two years prior. All four men are long-time friends of Krach\u2019s and John Chambers had been his mentor for many years. With that first exposure,<\/span> both Keith and Metta Krach were immediately<\/span> captivated by City Year\u2019s mission, leadership, and philosophy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Metta and Keith Krach are the 2018 recipients of City Year\u2019s Citizenship Leadership Award. Past recipients of the prestigious honor include (clockwise from bottom right) Microsoft Chairman John Thompson (2016), Cisco CEO John Chambers (2014), SAP CEO Bill McDermott (2015), and Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen (2017)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Prior Citizen Leadership Award honorees agree that the Krachs and City Year fit hand-in-glove. \u201cAfter 20 years of friendship, I know Keith understands the most effective way to develop great transformational leaders is through the power of mentorship,\u201d said John Chambers, former CEO of Cisco and recipient of the award in 2014. \u201cMetta and Keith are true believers not only in City Year\u2019s noble cause but also in their pay it forward model.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMetta and Keith make a strong team with a shared passion for supporting all causes related to education,\u201d said John Thompson, Chairman of Microsoft and 2016 honoree. \u201cTheir initiative in establishing the DocuSign Impact Foundation will leave a lasting legacy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Team DocuSign at City Year’s 2016 gala on National IMPACT Day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As Krach was building a relationship with City Year, he recognized Brown\u2019s genius as a social entrepreneur and invited him to serve on the DocuSign IMPACT Foundation\u2019s board of advisors. \u00a0Krach introduced Brown and City Year to the whole \u201cDocuFamily\u201d by partnering with City Year to help drive their mentorship mission with a 2-for-1 matching of employee donations, product contributions and a \u2018Hack-For-Good\u2019 hackathon at this year\u2019s Momentum user conference.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Amy Skeeters-Behrens, executive director, DocuSign IMPACT Foundation, \u201cKeith\u2019s transformational leadership inspired the creation of DocuSign IMPACT Foundation which empowers our employees to \u2018transform people\u2019s lives by transforming noble causes.\u2019 City Year is a perfect example.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

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Transformational Leadership through Paying-It-Forward<\/b><\/p>\n

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Keith and Metta Krach with Wes Baker, City Year Senior Impact Manager at Aptitud Community Academy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Krach is convinced that Brown is a shining example of a transformational leader–someone who challenges the status quo by mobilizing and empowering people to achieve a noble cause that will have a profound and far reaching impact.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Krach, \u201cMichael\u2019s creation, City Year, helps develop future transformational leaders through mentorship. Because transformational leadership is as much about transforming the person as it is about transforming the world. And mentorship is the most effective way to learn how to become a transformational leader.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Both Keith and Metta Krach\u2019s own track record for <\/span>transformational leadership<\/span><\/a> is well known\u2014both in business and in their work to \u201cpay it forward\u201d through philanthropy, education, and mentorship. <\/span><\/p>\n

Keith\u2019s <\/span>philanthropic endeavors<\/span><\/a> include his work as founder and chairman of the DocuSign Impact Foundation, chairman of New Story Charity advisory board, service on the board of governors of Opportunity International, and the Children\u2019s Autistic Network, to name just a few. Metta serves on the board of San Francisco Symphony, and the board of trustees & executive committee for the Bay Area Discovery Museum.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Keith Krach, \u201979 (fourth from right), alongside members of his family, was honored with a resolution renaming Sigma Chi\u2019s annual Leadership Training Workshop as the Krach Transformational Leaders Workshop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In higher education, Keith is Chairman Emeritus of Purdue University\u2019s board of trustees, and served as the International President of Sigma Chi Fraternity. Meanwhile Metta serves on the board of the Georgetown School of Law, and from 1997-1999 was International Sweetheart of Sigma Chi.<\/span><\/p>\n

When it comes to mentorship, Keith has recently founded the Virtual Mentor Network, whose mission is to develop transformational leaders at scale through video-based virtual mentoring. And both Keith and Metta have mentored scores of young leaders throughout their lives and careers.<\/span><\/p>\n