Warren Wilkinson
President & CEO
Expertise:
Destination Marketing, Advocacy Communications, Branding
Industry Involvement:
- Board Member of Tourism Industry Association of Kansas
- Board Member of the Overland Park Chamber of Commerce
My Job In One Sentence:
Lead Overland Park’s official destination marketing organization, setting strategic direction and advancing the city’s visitor economy.
Favorite Place To Take Visitors:
For dinner, Nick & Jakes; to show them something different, Aubrey Vinyards; to be outside, the Arboretum
Favorite Weekend Activity:
Sitting on my patio enjoying a cigar
Favorite Quote:
"It’s not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
Three Things l Love:
Spending time with my family, grilling on my patio, playing golf
Fun Fact:
I began my career in the ski industry and lived in the mountains of Colorado for the first eight years out of college.