[email protected]
Kasia Iwaniczko MacLeod is the regional vice president of community & government engagement for Cigna. In her multi-faceted role, Iwaniczko MacLeod leads the company’s engagement strategy, civic and government relationships and community investments, while influencing the business development initiatives throughout the Southwest region, which encompasses Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, north and south Texas.
An experienced leader from various industries, Iwaniczko MacLeod provides influential strategic thought leadership at the executive level both locally and regionally. She has demonstrated success in community and government relations through relationship cultivation and partnerships to advance business growth and policy. She’s an innovative, skilled and results driven ESG/CSR/Triple Bottom-Line executive. Iwaniczko MacLeod is skilled at business development execution with an advanced internal, external and crisis communication, marketing, media and public relations expertise.
Iwaniczko MacLeod is known as a successful thought leader, cultivating relationships, strategic partnerships and business development strategies which have advanced business goals in public and private sectors for more than two decades across various industries such as telecom, IT, marketing, health claims processing, international finance and healthcare. Iwaniczko MacLeod brings an authentic, unique and sought-after leadership expertise in developing and executing strategies that align revenue to thoughtful corporate citizenship.
Iwaniczko MacLeod has been acknowledged for her leadership by being tapped to advise numerous nonprofits, young professional organizations and mentor young women across industries. She is also the co-founder of the Colorado Women’s Chamber Foundation Board and currently sits on the Executive Committee as the immediate past board chair. She is also the co-founder of the “Community Chest”, a donor-advised fund at The Women’s Foundation of Colorado. Iwaniczko MacLeod also currently serves on the Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation Board of Governors, the Executive Committee of the Aurora Economic Development Council, and the Marketing & Strategic Alliance Committee of the Denver Art Museum. Iwaniczko MacLeod also is a member of the Chaîne des Rôtisseurs & Société Mondiale du Vin, the world’s oldest international gastronomic society, founded in Paris in 1248.
Iwaniczko MacLeod was recently named by the Girls Scouts of Colorado to the 2021 Women of Distinction honorees. In 2020, Kasia was named Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Business by the Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce. She was recently featured on the cover and interview in Colorado Expression Magazine’s annual 2020 women’s edition feature.
With an extensive and deep-rooted community platform, Iwaniczko MacLeod has held chief of staff and various senior leadership positions in multi-industry companies and other fast-paced, high-pressured organizations in the public and private sectors with a focus on: developing and executing vision and strategies; creating meaningful and lasting private-public partnerships; advancing government and public policy strategies and goals; managing board and leadership team relationships and processes; recruiting, developing and leading teams.
Born in communist Poland, Iwaniczko MacLeod and her family immigrated to Colorado and has developed strong ties the community through her extensive network and philanthropy. She began her public service career as the first-elected female student body president in the history of one of the oldest education institutions in Colorado at Mesa State College (now Colorado Mesa University). This role encompassed lobbying on behalf of the State Colleges of Colorado to advance access to education to for underserved populations, first generation and immigrants – such as herself. During the same tenure she was the youngest person appointed to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, State Advisory Committee.
In 2019, she was appointed for her first term by Colorado Governor Jared Polis and approved by the State Senate as a Colorado Mesa University Board Trustee, where she was voted as the Board Secretary. She is serving as not only the first alumna on the Board, but also as part of the first all-female Executive Committee in higher education institutions across the State of Colorado. She also holds the seat of the late Colorado Senator Tilman Bishop on the Colorado Mesa University Foundation Board of Directors. In December 2022, Iwaniczko MacLeod was reappointed by the Governor for her second term as trustee.
Iwaniczko MacLeod earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Mesa State College (now Colorado Mesa University) in Grand Junction, Colorado. She also holds the title of Dame de la Chaîne des Rôtisseurs & Société Mondiale du Vin. She lives in Denver with her husband, David, and their French bulldog, Buddy.