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Jim Kirk - President, Crain's City Brands: One piece of advice for somebody thinking about joining the Chicago leadership circle is, you know, ask yourself the question, what does leadership mean to me? And if the answer is, it's not just leading an organization from within, but how the organization itself can serve the city in a much bigger and better way, then I think you are the right candidate to be part of this program.

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Michael Fassnacht - Chief Growth Officer & President Chicagoland, CLYCO: There are not that many forums or platforms where you can understand how three different worlds intersect with each other, the business world, the political world and the nonprofit world. I love the Chicago leadership circle because it's one of the great educational platforms to bring all three worlds together and have a deep intellectual conversation about that, but also try to figure out, how do you apply it to your work and to your world?

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Cindy Noble - Executive Director, Vornado Realty Trust/THE MART: This program has felt essential to me at this stage of my career, through the cohort, which has been amazing, very cross sector and diverse in many senses, and through the wonderful speakers that have come to spend time with us each session across the many issues that we face as urban citizens. It's been great to build that network, and it's helped me to not only feel more informed outside of my sector, but to feel more confident speaking within my sector, because you don't know what you don't know,

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Brandy Walker - Director of Development & Marketing, Community Counselor Centers of Chicago: Being in the room with people who are native to the city of Chicago, but also just have so many wonderful years of experience being civically engaged in the community, being involved in their businesses, has really helped me to better understand kind of what my role is in the city, and how I can help and support and participate better.

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Seth Green - Dean, Graham School, The University of Chicago: The University of Chicago passionately believes in inquiry as a way to better understand the world and build a better future, and we are so excited to be a partner with Crain's Chicago Business in Chicago leadership circle, because this is about bringing the best ideas of our university, the great journalism of Crain's together to empower a group of leaders to better influence the future of Chicago.

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Jim Kirk - President, Crain's City Brands: Chicago is this unique place where business, nonprofits, policy and government are all trying to work together on solving some of those City's most intractable issues. You don't see that in other cities. And Crain's, along with the University of Chicago, we sit in the middle of all of that, and the program itself serves as kind of a fulcrum to make sure that you know these future leaders, or those leaders can then go out and really make some really important changes going forward.

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Pat Iaconetti - Global Account Executive, Dell Technologies: Kind of work the CLC demands and and inspires is really a person to person connection. And I think that the cohort has taught me that those those connections are here.

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Jim Kirk - President, Crain's City Brands: By the end of the program you're seeing, the friendships you're seeing, the trust build, unafraid to talk to each other, really engaging and really wanting to make an impact in the world around them.

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Cindy Noble - Executive Director, Vornado Realty Trust/THE MART: It was really a luxury to have the time carved out to think academically, to think at a slower pace, because I think it's really important to move slowly so that you can ultimately act quickly and without as much error, you know. So this was a period of contemplation and planning in a certain sense, not only for what I'll hopefully do in our city, but just in how I'll design my own life.

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Michael Fassnacht - Chief Growth Officer & President Chicagoland, CLYCO: I think what's unique about this program is the intersection of University of Chicago, deep academics, deep data driven, very thoughtful, very intellectual, very analytical, sometimes even esoteric. And Crain's much more in the moment, practical solutions now, not in 10 years. I think that tension to some degree, builds a great context to have a different approach than probably other leadership programs.

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Seth Green - Dean, Graham School, The University of Chicago: I would just say that we at the University of Chicago are so grateful to be partnering with Crain's in this endeavor. We share a commitment to the future of Chicago's economic and community development, and ultimately, the future of Chicago is all about people and leaders and how they can shape that direction, and we are so proud to be with another institution that cares deeply about this city in making sure that we have the leadership to move our big ideas as a region forward.

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Brandy Walker - Director of Development & Marketing, Community Counselor Centers of Chicago: Sign up. Take the chance. Put yourself in these spaces, because your voice matters, and it should be a part of the conversation too.

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Michael Fassnacht - Chief Growth Officer & President Chicagoland, CLYCO: I think you become a more thoughtful resident. You become a more informed leader across different worlds, and I think you are just more awake. You have better frameworks in data and knowledge to understand. Understand what's happening.

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Cindy Noble - Executive Director, Vornado Realty Trust/THE MART: It's invaluable, and just just do it. Sign up. Register now you.