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Kasia Iwaniczko MacLeod is a partner at a strategy group which promotes 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. Iwaniczko MacLeod’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 with advanced internal, external and crisis communication, marketing, branding, media and public affairs, and ESG/CSR/Triple Bottom-Line expertise.
For over four years, Iwaniczko MacLeod served as Cigna Healthcare’s Regional Vice President of Community & Government Engagement. A role created for her, and a first for 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 Denver Colfax Marathon; launched National Western Cigna Pink Rodeo. In her tenure, Cigna gained significant market share in the government, education, and private sectors.
Iwaniczko MacLeod has previously held leadership positions in international finance, banking, public utilities, healthcare financing, telecom, IT, and healthcare information technology for companies such as Bank of America, Xcel Energy, TriZetto (Cognizant), Qwest (Century Link), and Cable & Wireless US. She has also advised numerous non-profit boards, young professional organizations, and mentor young women across industries.
Iwaniczko MacLeod is the co-founder of the Colorado Women’s Chamber Foundation and serves on the Executive Committee as the Immediate Past Board Chair. She is the co-founder of 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, and the Marketing & Strategic Alliance Committee of the Denver Art Museum. She is a member of the Denver Mile High Bailliage Chaîne des Rôtisseurs & Société Mondiale du Vin, the world’s oldest international gastronomic society, founded in Paris in 1248. She holds the title of Dame de la Chaîne des Rôtisseurs & Société Mondiale du Vin. Iwaniczko MacLeod was named by the Girls Scouts of Colorado as a 2021 Woman of Distinction. In 2020, she was named one of the Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Business by the Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce. She also received the Forty Under 40 Award from the Denver Business Journal.
Born in communist Poland, Iwaniczko MacLeod and her family immigrated to Colorado, and she has developed strong ties to the community through her extensive network and philanthropy. Iwaniczko MacLeod 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). During the same tenure she was the youngest person appointed to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, State Advisory Committee.
In her second term, Iwaniczko MacLeod serves as the Colorado Mesa University Board of Trustees Secretary. She also holds the seat of the late Colorado Senator Tilman Bishop on the Colorado Mesa University Foundation Board of Directors.
Iwaniczko MacLeod earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Mesa State College (now Colorado Mesa University) in Grand Junction, Colorado. She lives in Denver with her husband, David.
