Topic:  The ever-evolving landscape of college athletics.

Mark Johnson is in his 22nd season (2025-26) as the play-by-play announcer for CU’s football and men’s basketball teams, as he assumed the role of “Voice of the Buffaloes” ahead of the 2004-05 athletic year. He is also now in his ninth year as CU’s first-ever director of audio broadcasting for the athletic department, as he was named to the position on July 1, 2017.

In his role and in addition to his announcing duties, he hosts various television and radio shows, podcasts, makes personal appearances and does voiceover work for the university. He also does television and radio work for various national and regional networks in the Rocky Mountain Region and across the country and has become known for his distinctive, booming tenor voice.

Johnson, 58, was named sports director at KOA-Radio in Denver in the spring of 2004, replacing the retiring Larry Zimmer, who had held the position for over two decades. Zimmer, the long-time “Voice of the Buffaloes, had handled the play-by-play chores for CU dating back to 1971, but shifted over to the analyst position when Johnson was hired. When Zimmer retired from announcing after the 2015 season, the mantra of “Voice of the Buffs” fully shifted to “M.J.”

Zimmer’s 30 seasons of play-by-play are the most by any announcer in any sport at CU, with Johnson’s 21 in football under his belt second; John Henry holds the third spot with 17 (1954-70 at KOA). In basketball, M.J.’s 21 recently past Zimmer’s 19 for the most calling CU’s hoop contests.

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SUMMER INSTITUTE

Tues/Wed/Thurs, June 16th, 17th, 18th

9 AM-12 PM, 12-3 PM

HighView’s Summer Institute, taking place June 16-18 in Adobe’s offices downtown, will equip college students (incoming freshmen through rising seniors) with the skills and relationships needed to succeed in today’s workforce. Through interactive workshops, guided discussions, and hands-on activities, students will explore the power of social capital: what it is, why it matters, and how to intentionally build it. The institute also focuses on strengthening communication, networking, and workplace readiness skills, giving students practical tools and real-world insight they can immediately apply in professional settings. Students will leave more confident, connected, and prepared to navigate internships, career opportunities, and the professional world ahead.

 

Session Overview

The 6 Things Only the CEO Can Do
Where Strategy Becomes Enterprise Value

A keynote for CEOs and First Teams who want to move from running the business to designing it—and build companies that scale, attract capital, and compound enterprise value.

Enterprise value doesn’t come from doing more. It comes from the CEO doing the right things. When the CEO operates as architect, not bottleneck, clarity replaces complexity, decisions accelerate, and the business becomes scalable without dependence on one person. This keynote reframes the CEO role from driving execution to designing leverage, from managing activity to architecting value, and from being indispensable to building an enterprise.

Leaders leave with clarity on where the CEO creates disproportionate enterprise value, a sharper understanding of First Team ownership, faster decision-making with less organizational drag, and a new lens on how boards, strategy, and structure compound value. The challenge for most CEOs isn’t effort. It’s focus. Enterprise value grows when strategy is clear, ownership is aligned, and leadership energy is directed toward the highest-leverage work.

The keynote introduces the six areas where only the CEO can create enterprise value:

1. 1. 1. Vision Clarity by designing a future the market understands and values.
      2. First Team Alignment by turning leadership into a coordinated engine.
      3. Stakeholder Confidence by building trust with boards and capital.
      4. Strategic Alignment by structuring the business to scale.
      5. Personal Effectiveness by protecting energy and decision quality.
      6. Board Collaboration by moving from oversight to value creation.

 

The CEO’s job is not to execute the strategy.
The CEO’s job is to design the system where execution becomes inevitable.

Bio

Karen Posey is an Enterprise Value Architect and CEO & Managing Partner of KP Strategies. She works with CEOs and Boards to turn strategy, leadership alignment, and execution into measurable enterprise value—growth that is scalable, financeable, and durable.

Often described as where CEO Whisperer meets Enterprise Value Architect, Karen helps leaders move from running the business to designing it. She brings clarity to complexity, accelerates decision velocity, and builds operating models that reduce dependency on the CEO while increasing enterprise value.

Her career spans launching four successful companies, leading a regional turnaround, advising Fortune 500 organizations, serving as VP of Strategy for a $12B healthcare payer, and acting as CEO of a MedTech company. Across every role, her strength has been translating vision into results.

Karen is a Vistage Certified Speaker and trusted advisor across Healthcare, MedTech, Digital Technology, and Defense Technology. Grounded in purpose and passionate about wellness, she believes sustainable performance starts with clarity, discipline, and personal effectiveness.

 

Nhi Aronheim stands at only four feet, nine inches tall, but her story is immense.

Several anthologies including Kentucky Women: Two Centuries of Indomitable Spirit and Vision, Colorado Public Radio (CPR), and Harvey Brownstone Interviews have profiled her harrowing journey as a child refugee who escaped war-torn Vietnam in search of the American Dream.

Nhi’s diverse background is captivating.  As a refugee, she was adopted by a Christian family in the South, where she learned to deal with prejudice and discrimination. She later met and married a Jewish man and converted to Judaism in 2004. Nhi has two beautiful children who she has raised to embrace Vietnamese and Jewish cultures. After transitioning to sales and marketing in the mortgage industry—where Nhi worked for over sixteen years—she retired as a marketing specialist at the age of forty-one to begin her next life adventure. Since then, she has been a mediator, author, and speaker.