If you’ve ever seen the giant wall of travel magnets at Corona Insights, you’ll know that we like to travel.  And because we like to travel, we spend a lot of time in airports, particularly at Denver International Airport (DEN).

We like to spend time at DEN.  It’s a fun place to hang out, get some food, explore alien portals, and people watch.  A big factor in our enjoyment is the work of this month’s client interviewee, Stacey Stegman.  Stacey is the Sr. Vice President of Communication, Marketing, and Customer Service of DEN, which is both a formidable job and a formidable business card.  As one of her many duties at DEN, she oversees the customer experience at the airport.

In honor of Corona’s 20th anniversary, we are celebrating the outstanding people and organizations making a positive contribution to our community.

Each month, Corona is making a $500 donation in honor of a member of our team. For April, Matt Herndon selected The Denver Dumb Friends League. We chatted with Matt to learn more about this organization and his relationship with them.

Matt and his wife Kelly are pet people. They like dogs and they have two cats: Pywacket and Cid. It’s fitting that Matt chose the Dumb Friends League as his recipient of Corona’s $500 donation.

Matt Herndon solves problems. When problems are complicated and clients need help findings effective and efficient solutions, they call Matt who serves up the perfect answer without overcomplicating. He meets his clients exactly where they are and then guides them to useful results. This is why Matt has so many long-standing clients, including the Children’s Museum of Denver, CollegeInvest, Pinnacol Assurance, and Summit County Public Health.

Matt is celebrating his 10th year working at Corona and his 12^th year in the market research industry. He was first attracted to Corona because it was good way to blend his math skills, market research education, and business sprit. Additionally, Corona’s founder and long-time CEO, Kevin Raines, was a hard-core Kansas City Chiefs fan, so that was a good sign.

In honor of Corona’s 20th anniversary, we are celebrating the outstanding people and organizations making a positive contribution to our community.

Each month, Corona is making a $500 donation in honor of a member of our team. For March, Andrew Streight selected the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS). We chatted with Andrew to learn more about this organization and his relationship with them.

Andrew Streight joined our team at Corona about 18 months ago, but he has been such a natural fit that it feels like he’s been around much longer.  His skills and interests position him right at the nexus of our practice areas, so Andrew is playing a key role in taking our integration of research, evaluation, and strategy work to the next level.

Andrew was drawn to Corona as a firm that would value and nurture his love of learning and commitment to doing work in the public interest.  He had received a Family Economic Success fellowship from the National Conference of State Legislatures while at Colorado College where he studied ethical and political philosophy and initially piqued his interest in the nonprofit sector. He proceeded to complete a master’s degree in Global Finance, Trade, and Economic Integration at the Korbel School of International Relations at the University of Denver (DU), with a certificate in International Law and Human Rights. With his training, he was drawn to jobs in consulting where he would have an opportunity to learn about new industries and new solutions and apply those learnings to help social sector organizations improve their communities.

In our previous blog post, we reminisced with Ginger White-Brunetti and Tariana Navas-Nieves about the cultural planning process that led to the creation of IMAGINE 2020. In today’s blog post, we wrap up our interview by chatting about new challenges that arts, culture, and creativity face in Denver today. We also discuss some of the memorable moments from working together.

As we complete our 20^th year of business, we will visit with the two key elements of our work:  our clients and our staff. In February, we sat down with Ginger White-Brunetti, Executive Director, and Tariana Navas-Nieves, Director of Cultural Affairs, for Denver Arts & Venues.

In honor of Corona’s 20th anniversary, we are celebrating the outstanding people and organizations making a positive contribution to our community.

Each month, Corona is making a $500 donation in honor of a member of our team. For February, David Kennedy selected the Colorado Fourteeners* Initiative (CFI). We chatted with David to learn more about this organization and his relationship with them.

February 2019 marks David Kennedy’s 13^th year with Corona. During those 13 years, he has climbed up from quantitative analyst to principal. He also has gone from a local employee to a remote employee to a local employee to a remote employee to (currently) a local employee. But, thanks to his great attention to detail, all of these transitions have been seamless.

While pursuing his business degree as an undergrad, David became very interested in market research and ended up focusing on market research and statistics courses. While completing some graduate courses at CSU, he saw an ad for the job at Corona and applied. Like many of us at Corona, David enjoys not just the research aspect of the work but also the variety of our projects. The variety of projects makes the work challenging and engaging, which he enjoys.