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Freedom UnaffiliatedAn unaffiliated future: The case for opening Colorado’s primariesAn unaffiliated future: The case for opening Colorado’s primariesBy Jon CaldaraThis column is targeted to one reader: the iconoclast businessman and politico Kent Thiry.Many believe Colorado’s best days are behind her, and understandably so as Colorado turns into a dictatorial progressive experiment of exponentially escalating regulation, spiraling property taxes and fees, and forced social engineering.We don’t feel safe on our own city streets. Young people can’t buy their own homes. Affordable and reliable energy is no more. Small businesses are dwindling under the new minim...
2025-05-2506 min
2025-04-1909 min
Step WiseDr. Foster Mobley: Leadership, Authenticity, and Lessons from Season OneAfter interviewing some of the most insightful leaders across industries, it’s time to turn the mic around. In this special episode of Step Wise, host Dr. Foster Mobley takes center stage as Jana Devan interviews him on the key lessons, themes, and personal takeaways from the first season.Foster reflects on conversations with top executives and leadership thinkers, including Janet Foutty, Valorie Kondos Field, Kent Thiry, and Paul Viviano, about how leadership is evolving to be more human-centered, purpose-driven, and deeply connected to well-being. He also shares his own philosophy on leadership, coaching, and why the re...
2025-02-2638 min
City Cast DenverDid a Local Lawmaker Betray His Voters? Plus, the Future of Ranked Choice Voting and an Epic HGTV FailIt’s Friday, and we’re rounding up the biggest stories of the week. First, after winning re-election in a landslide last week, State Senator Chris Hansen just announced that he’s is leaving his seat for a big payday in the private sector. But questions are swirling: Why such bad timing? And are the Dems making backroom deals to replace him? Then, mega-millionaire Kent Thiry’s ranked choice voting ballot measure went down in flames, but his work tweaking Colorado’s elections process may be far from over. Producer Paul Karolyi and host Bree Davies are joined by Denverite’...
2024-11-1500 minCity Cast DenverWas Mayor Mike ‘Factually Incorrect’? Plus, Michael Bennet vs. Dark MoneyThere’s only a week left until Election Day! So we’re digging into all the latest election news and gossip as millions and millions of dollars are flooding the local airwaves with campaign ads. First, political insiders are saying that that the polls on Proposition 131 (aka, open primaries and ranked choice voting) are tightening, despite all the backers’ endorsements and fundraising. Then, was Mayor Mike Johnston “factually incorrect” when we asked him about the sales tax hike he put in front of Denver voters to fund affordable housing? Host Bree Davies and producer Paul Karolyi are talking politics, checking s...
2024-10-2935 min
Step WiseKent Thiry: Creating a Wildly Innovative Performance CultureIn this episode, iconic business leader Kent Thiry shares his night into creating an innovative performance culture. He talks about citizenship in the workforce to help all engage.In this episode, Kent and I discuss:Intentional creation of culture at DaVitaRelationship between culture and performanceHow "citizenship" differs from employmentHow companies can build citizenship internally and serve their external communitiesHow he uses metrics to hold himself accountableLearn more about Foster at fostermobleymt.com or follow us on Instagram and LinkedIn at Foster Mobley.www.instagram.com/fostermobleyhttps://www.linkedin.com/in...
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2024-09-2519 min
Devil's AdvocateMake Your Vote Count AgainKent Thiry is investing his considerable wealth into changing the way Coloradans vote this fall. You'll decide if you want to have a jungle primary followed by rank choice voting. This would upend the way we do party primaries.
2024-09-1945 minCity Cast DenverA Millionaire’s Case for Major Elections ReformIn a presidential election year when democracy itself is under threat, local political megadonor Kent Thiry is proposing a massive reform to Colorado’s elections. But Initiative 310 will only make it onto our November ballots if the campaign can collect 125,000 signatures by the first week of August. So producer Paul Karolyi sat down with Thiry and one of his top allies — former Denver Elections director Amber McReynolds — to talk about how this reform would work, why both Democrats and Republicans are so mad at them, and whether or not Thiry is just clearing the path for his own long-anticipated run fo...
2024-07-1030 min
Untamed NationSaving America From a Ranked-Choice Voting NightmareThis morning, Joe discussed the dangers facing our election system, highlighting measures that subvert the will of the people, including ranked-choice voting, which he claims leads to greater corruption. He then welcomed guests Linda Good, Rhonda Braun, and Peg Cage to discuss their opposition to ranked-choice voting, its auditability, its definition, the importance of primary elections, and the need to prevent its implementation. After a break, they talked about the necessity of hand-counted paper ballots with photo ID to maintain election integrity and discussed Kent Thiry's initiative to introduce ranked-choice voting in Colorado. Joe concluded by urging...
2024-06-2159 minCity Cast DenverDebating Democracy, RTD’s Rough Week, and Indian Restaurant RipoffsIt’s Friday, and we’re digging into the biggest stories of the week. First, local multimillionaire Kent Thiry is bankrolling a new campaign to reform Colorado’s elections, and the signature-gathering kicked off this week. Will you give the DaVita founder’s ideas your John Hancock? Plus, public transit riders face “mounting disruptions” as RTD struggles with outages and maintenance issues, according the Denver Post. Colorado Newsline senior reporter Chase Woodruff and our politics and green chile correspondent Justine Sandoval join producer Paul Karolyi to break down those stories and, of course, share our wins and fails of the week.
2024-06-1442 min
PekingologyChina's Extreme InequalityIn this episode of Pekingology, Freeman Chair in China Studies Jude Blanchette is joined by the Andrew Walder, Denise O'Leary & Kent Thiry Professor at Stanford University, and Senior Fellow at the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies. Today they discuss his article “China’s Extreme Inequality: The Structural Legacies of State Socialism.” (The China Journal, July 2023)
2024-04-1840 minFreedom UnaffiliatedKent Thiry has an idea for a new voting option, and Jon Caladara thinks he’s halfway right.Kent Thiry has an idea for a new voting option, and he’s halfway right.Colorado has the possibility to become the nation’s first post-partisan state.As the number of unaffiliated voters swell and registered Republicans and Democrats shrink to all-time lows, we see a growing movement of people who have just had it with both parties. And why not? The extremes of both parties are becoming more distasteful by the day. This doesn’t mean there won’t still be Republicans and Democrats. It means there will be openings for unaffiliated and third...
2023-12-0505 min
The ProcessMay 31, 2023 - High Country Politics - Government and Elections News from the American WestPACs supporting Mike Johnston spend big in final sprint of Denver mayoral election | Susana Cordova will be Colorado’s next Education Commissioner | New Colorado GOP Chair Dave Williams is off to a rocky start | Kari Lake is running for Senate in Arizona | Ringo Starr on tour in Western U.S. Song playsIntro by hostWelcome to High Country - politics in the American West. My name is Sean Diller; regular listeners might know me from Heartland Pod’s Talking Politics, every Monday.Support this show and all the work in the H...
2023-05-3112 min
Kim Monson Featured ArticlesRepublican Sponsored SB23-101 Silences Coloradan’s VoicesColorado is in trouble. KKTV reported that Colorado is #1 in car thefts. CPR reported that Colorado led the nation in bank robberies in 2021. The price of a dozen eggs in Colorado is among the highest in the nation because of Colorado’s Scrambled Egg Law. In December the St. Louis Federal Reserve reported the average price of eggs in America was $4.25. I just paid $6.99 for a dozen eggs. Because of the metro area’s homelessness industrial complex, Denver, the city that I loved, is so dirty I seldom go downtown anymore. Chalkbeat reported that our kids are falling behind in read...
2023-02-2607 min
Imperfect LeadersKent Thiry - Inspiring a Future Generation of Transformational LeadersKent Thiry is one of the most admired and accomplished leaders in the country.
For many years he was CEO and Board Chair of Davita - and now he is a philanthropist, a friend and a trusted advisor to high potential CEOs, politicians, environmental activists, and rising stars. Thiry also works closely with top private equity firms including KKR and Partners Group.
During this conversation, Thiry is completely vulnerable and comfortable in his own skin - sharing with us crucible experiences - that both tested and shaped his leadership mettle. For example, Thiry shares with us h...
2023-02-2652 min
Democracy IRLHave We Reached Peak China? Interview with Andrew G. WalderPolitical sociologist Andrew G. Walder, the Denise O'Leary and Kent Thiry Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Senior Fellow in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, is a specialist on the sources of conflict, stability, and change in communist regimes and their successor states. Walder joins Francis Fukuyama to discuss China's economic slowdown, why it suffers from high inequality, and whether the country has peaked and is now facing long-term stagnation.Andrew G. Walder is the Denise O'Leary and Kent Thiry Professor of Sociology at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at...
2023-01-2443 min
New Books in French StudiesCharles Devellenes, "Positive Atheism: Bayle, Meslier, D'Holbach, Diderot" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)In Positive Atheism: Bayle, Meslier, d’Holbach, Diderot (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), Dr. Charles Devellennes looks at the religious, social, and political thought of the first four thinkers of the French Enlightenment: Pierre Bayle, Jean Meslier, Paul-Henri Thiry d’Holbach and Denis Diderot to explicitly argue for atheism as a positive philosophy. He shows how atheism evolved considerably over the century that spans the works of these four authors: from the possibility of the virtuous atheist in the late 17th century, to a deeply rooted materialist philosophy with radical social and political consequences by the eve of the French revolution. The me...
2022-09-231h 06
New Books in SecularismCharles Devellenes, "Positive Atheism: Bayle, Meslier, D'Holbach, Diderot" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)In Positive Atheism: Bayle, Meslier, d’Holbach, Diderot (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), Dr. Charles Devellennes looks at the religious, social, and political thought of the first four thinkers of the French Enlightenment: Pierre Bayle, Jean Meslier, Paul-Henri Thiry d’Holbach and Denis Diderot to explicitly argue for atheism as a positive philosophy. He shows how atheism evolved considerably over the century that spans the works of these four authors: from the possibility of the virtuous atheist in the late 17th century, to a deeply rooted materialist philosophy with radical social and political consequences by the eve of the French revolution. The me...
2022-09-231h 07
New Books in ReligionCharles Devellenes, "Positive Atheism: Bayle, Meslier, D'Holbach, Diderot" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)In Positive Atheism: Bayle, Meslier, d’Holbach, Diderot (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), Dr. Charles Devellennes looks at the religious, social, and political thought of the first four thinkers of the French Enlightenment: Pierre Bayle, Jean Meslier, Paul-Henri Thiry d’Holbach and Denis Diderot to explicitly argue for atheism as a positive philosophy. He shows how atheism evolved considerably over the century that spans the works of these four authors: from the possibility of the virtuous atheist in the late 17th century, to a deeply rooted materialist philosophy with radical social and political consequences by the eve of the French revolution. The me...
2022-09-231h 07
New Books in Early Modern HistoryCharles Devellenes, "Positive Atheism: Bayle, Meslier, D'Holbach, Diderot" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)In Positive Atheism: Bayle, Meslier, d’Holbach, Diderot (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), Dr. Charles Devellennes looks at the religious, social, and political thought of the first four thinkers of the French Enlightenment: Pierre Bayle, Jean Meslier, Paul-Henri Thiry d’Holbach and Denis Diderot to explicitly argue for atheism as a positive philosophy. He shows how atheism evolved considerably over the century that spans the works of these four authors: from the possibility of the virtuous atheist in the late 17th century, to a deeply rooted materialist philosophy with radical social and political consequences by the eve of the French revolution. The me...
2022-09-231h 07
The Multiplier EffectKent Thiry — A Community First, A Company Second at DaVita, Inc.Today, Scott Miller, Managing Director of Endeavor Colorado sits down with Kent Thiry, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of DaVita Inc. to learn how he was able to cultivate a distinctively engaged culture that has a global reputation for developing well-rounded general managers and leaders so much so that his techniques have been the subject of leadership and culture case studies written by both Harvard and Stanford.
During his leadership at DaVita, the company grew revenues from approximately $1 billion to $11 billion, emerged as the leading clinical innovator in the kidney care community, and a leader in...
2021-09-1736 min
The Kim Monson ShowLEAP: Decline to Sign.Ballot Initiative 25: LEAP (Learning Enrichment and Academic Progress Program) is in the process of collecting signatures. Decline to sign. Read the ballot initiative along with Patti Kurgan’s op-ed, LEAP from Dot to Dot and Where do You Land? , along with Colorado Initiative 25: A LEAP of Blind Faith! and Kim Monson’s piece, Ten Reasons to Decline to Sign Colorado Initiative 25: LEAP.
Reggie Carr, founder of I’MA Trumpster and I’MA Uniter, joins Kim to discuss his new venture. Reggie believes in Trump’s statement, “Peace through strength.” Reggie is creating a music project that will “unite” people of...
2021-07-1957 min
The Craig Silverman ShowEpisode 16 - Let’s Vote!Let’s vote! And not for the guy retweeting lies about Seal Team Six, and touting QAnon as nice pedophilia fighters. Really GOP? Backing our super-spreading President is super bad judgment.
Craig’s Lawyers’ Lounge welcomes back Amy Padden, a dynamic Democratic candidate for 18th Judicial District DA. She gets Craig’s endorsement, and you will understand why.
The Lounge also welcomes Doug Schoen, a famous Fox News political analyst and Harvard Law grad. Doug worked on the Bill Clinton campaign and famously decided he could not back Hillary in 2016. But now, Doug S...
2020-10-172h 16
In the Arena with Colorado ConcernYes on Amendment BToday we are joined by Kent Thiry, former Chairman and CEO of DaVita, as well as Dick Wadhams, the former Chair of the Colorado Republican Party, to discuss the Gallagher Amendment repeal effort. Colorado Concern has endorsed Amendment B and we are here to unpack this notoriously arcane issue to help leaders understand its impact on business and the state.
2020-10-1328 min
2020-09-2220 min
HBS Managing the Future of WorkCovid-19 Dispatch: Kent ThiryKent Thiry is a veteran healthcare executive with decades of experience observing public health policy and administration at both federal and state levels. He shares his assessment of why the US was slow out of the blocks in responding to Covid-19. Looking at the virus’ likely effects, he anticipates an accelerated adoption of tele-medicine, a return of manufacturing to the US, a speed-up of automation, and prospects for a greener, lower-carbon economy in the recovery from the current slowdown.
2020-04-2721 min
HBS Managing the Future of WorkCovid-19 Dispatch: Kent ThiryKent Thiry is a veteran healthcare executive with decades of experience observing public health policy and administration at both federal and state levels. He shares his assessment of why the US was slow out of the blocks in responding to Covid-19. Looking at the virus’ likely effects on the healthcare market, he anticipates that the crisis will accelerate adoption of tele-medicine. More broadly, he foresees a shift of more manufacturing to domestic locations, a speed-up of automation, and prospects for a greener, lower-carbon economy in the recovery from the current slowdown.
2020-04-2722 min
Colorado = Security Podcast116 - 5/6 - Mike Wilson, CTO and Founder @ EnzoicIn this episode: Mike Wilson, CTO and Founder of Enzoic is our feature guest this week. News from: Amazon, DaVita, Trimble, Swimlane, Red Canary, Lares, Coalfire, CyberGRX, LogRhythm and a lot more!
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It’s not too late to enjoy a Cinco de Mayo margarita. Amazon’s bringing 400 jobs to town, and DaVita brings one big job. Trimble is innovative - that’s cool. Red Canary gets mad stacks of cash. Swimlane seeks new partners. Lares finds a new man. Coalfire is a great place to work, they say. CyberGRX and LogRhythm bring home some ha...
2019-05-0558 min
Latest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfMao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution: history versus myth [Audio]Speaker(s): Professor Andrew Walder | As the Mao era, and in particular the Cultural Revolution fade in memory, its history has fallen out of focus and has been infused with myth. Drawing on his recent book, China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed, Andrew Walder will take up two related questions. First, what were Mao's intentions and what were the actual outcomes of his radical initiatives? Second, why did these outcomes occur? Mao emerges from the historical record as a revolutionary whose radicalism was undiminished by the passage of time. His initiatives frequently had consequences that he had not intended and...
2017-03-161h 23
Inside Social InnovationKent Thiry - From Demoralization to Living CommunityDaVita is the largest independent provider in the United States of dialysis services to people with chronic kidney failure. In 2000, DaVita was being investigated by the SEC and sued by shareholders. In this audio lecture recorded at Bridging the Gap, the Stanford 2005 Net Impact conference, Kent Thiry explains how building community and shared values bumped DaVita's market capitalization to $3 billion and turned it into a leader in its field. https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/kent_thiry_-_from_demoralization_to_living_community
2006-08-211h 00