Longmont Chamber CEO Kathy Weber-Harding to resign

LONGMONT – Kathy Weber-Harding will step down June 1 as president and chief executive of the Longmont Area Chamber of Commerce, the chamber announced Monday.

“I really love working with the business community,” Weber-Harding told BizWest, “but I like working with individual businesses even better. The chamber puts on 200 programs and events a year, and that takes a lot of time and energy. I have the passion for it – but I want to see results a little sooner.”

Carol Schack, who chairs the chamber’s board of directors, said the board accepted Weber-Harding’s resignation and would launch a search for her replacement soon. If a new leader hasn’t been selected by June 1, she said, membership director Shelley McLeod likely would take the reins in the interim.

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“Kathy has worked to strengthen chamber events and to expand opportunities for members through such programs as Unity in the Community and Leadership Longmont,” said Schack in a media statement. “Her enthusiasm for the chamber and Longmont have been hallmarks of her administration.”

Weber-Harding was hired by the chamber in 2007.

“I think the best part of my job has been the success of the chamber being recognized as one of the top organizations that promote business, that is the voice of business,” Weber-Harding said. “I loved doing things like going to City Council to speak on behalf of a business that wanted to do something that would be good for the community.”

She previously had been a business banker at Vectra Bank in Longmont and branch manager at First National Bank of Longmont, now part of Guaranty Bank. She moved to Longmont from Minnesota in 1977.

Correction: Due to incorrect information included in a Longmont Chamber press release, this story originally stated that Weber-Harding was hired by the chamber in 2008.