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Kasia Iwaniczko MacLeod is a partner at a strategy group promoting multi-sector business development and corporate citizenship at the intersection of government, education, non-profits, and community through incomparable relationships. She is a respected business and community leader with proven executive experience across various industries. She has demonstrated success by operating throughout her distinguished career at the intersection of business growth, government affairs, community engagement, advocacy, and public policy. Kasia's strength is her deep and authentic community relationships in the public and private sectors. She is innovative and results-driven with critical skills in multi-sector business development strategy design and execution encompassing advanced internal, external, and crisis communication, public policy, governmental and public affairs, marketing, branding, media, and ESG/CSR/Triple Bottom-Line expertise.
For over four years, Kasia served as Cigna Healthcare's Regional Vice President of Community & Government Engagement. A role created for her and a first in the global health services company's history. As a member of the Regional Leadership Team, she held a multi-faceted role, leading the company's community and government engagement strategy while cultivating civic and government relationships. She delivered this through targeted community investments while advancing and aligning the business development initiatives to drive government, education, and commercial business growth across the Southwest region (encompassing CO, WY, UT, NM, AZ, OK, N & S TX). She also created and established a Cigna first, cross-vertical, multi-year community and business strategy encompassing a social determinants of health focus, launching partnerships with 365Health (formerly 9Health Fairs) to provide mental health screenings and no-cost counseling to all Colorado residents who need mental health care but can't afford it. Under her leadership and strategic direction, Cigna was the only for-profit organization selected to partner with the State of Colorado and 365Health to deliver COVID-19 Education at all COVID state clinics; launched the Denver Colfax Marathon; launched the National Western Cigna Pink Rodeo. During her tenure, Cigna gained significant market share in the government, education, and private sectors.
Kasia has previously held leadership positions in international finance, banking, public utilities, healthcare financing, telecom, I.T., and healthcare information technology for companies such as Cigna, Bank of America, Xcel Energy, TriZetto (Cognizant), Qwest (Century Link), and Cable & Wireless U.S., and EDS. She has also advised numerous non-profit boards, young professional organizations, and mentors young women across industries.
Kasia co-founded the Colorado Women's Chamber Foundation, where she served as Board Chair and led the Executive Committee. She also co-founded the "Community Chest", a donor- advised fund at The Women's Foundation of Colorado. She serves on the Executive Committee and Board of the Aurora Economic Development Council; the Civic Results/Metro Mayors Caucus Board of Directors, serving as Secretary & Treasurer; the Marketing & Strategic Alliance Committee of the Denver Art Museum; and the USO Colorado Board of Directors/Advisory Council. She is the Vice Conseiller Gastronomique for the Denver Mile High Bailliage of the Chaîne des Rôtisseurs & Société Mondiale du Vin, the world's oldest international gastronomic society, founded in Paris in 1248. The Girl Scouts of Colorado named Kasia a 2021 Woman of Distinction. In 2020, the Colorado Women's Chamber of Commerce named her one of the Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Business. She has received the Forty Under 40 Award from the Denver Business Journal. Kasia was bestowed Honor Initiate status and lifetime membership to the Tri Delta Sorority. Most recently, the Board of Directors of the National Western Stock Show and the Western Stock Show Association voted her for Lifetime Membership.
Born in communist Poland, Kasia and her family immigrated to Colorado, and she has developed strong ties to the community through her extensive network and philanthropy. Kasia is the first in her family to graduate from college. She began her public service career as the first-elected female Student Body President at Mesa State College (now Colorado Mesa University), where she also lobbied on behalf of the State Colleges of Colorado. She was the youngest person appointed to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, State Advisory Committee during the same tenure.
In her second term, Kasia serves as the Secretary of the Colorado Mesa University Board of Trustees, advancing financial and strategic oversight of a nearly $200 million operating budget and a three-campus community across the Western Slope of Colorado. She also holds the seat of the late Colorado Senator Tilman Bishop on the Colorado Mesa University Foundation Board of Directors.
Kasia earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Mesa State College (now Colorado Mesa University) in Grand Junction, Colorado. Kasia also has a Professional Human Rights Education Training Certification from the U.S. Institute of Diplomacy and Human Rights. She lives in Denver with her husband, David.
