Jon Botten was hired as CEO of Children's Therapy Center in 1999 to fulfill their mission of providing excellent therapy services to all children in need. Over the past 17 years, he has transformed the organization from a small, understaffed nonprofit renting one building into the largest and most comprehensive pediatric therapy provider in Washington, owning six buildings. Through strategic hiring, infrastructure development, and financial management, he has established Children's Therapy Center as a well-rounded, professional organization while maintaining its strengths of excellent services and dedication. Jon's leadership and passion have left the organization well-positioned for continued success.
Jon Botten served as CEO of Children's Therapy Center (CTC) for 17 years. During his tenure, CTC grew exponentially in both size and reputation. When Botten began, CTC had 25 employees and struggled financially each year. However, through Botten's leadership and collaboration with staff, CTC now has 130 employees, additional facilities, and a strong financial position. Botten helped guide CTC through various challenges, always working with staff and the Board to ensure the organization's continued success in serving children with disabilities.
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We talk excessively without making progress, going around in circles and changing our goals instead of matching the world to our visions. We set out without clear direction, navigating blindly and building on an unstable foundation by piling up materials without a solid plan. True progress requires keeping a consistent vision and adapting the world to match it, rather than constantly changing course.
Jon Botten served as CEO of Children's Therapy Center (CTC) for 17 years. During his tenure, CTC grew exponentially in both size and reputation. When Botten began, CTC had 25 employees and struggled financially each year. However, through Botten's leadership and collaboration with staff, CTC now has 130 employees, additional facilities, and a strong financial position. Botten helped guide CTC through various challenges, always working with staff and the Board to ensure the organization's continued success in serving children with disabilities.
Apresentação de slies oficina de prognóstico ambiental 06.08Camila Bittar
O documento descreve o projeto de regularização do Setor Habitacional Ponte de Terra em Brasília. O objetivo é elaborar estudos e projetos para regularizar a área de acordo com as leis ambientais e urbanísticas. O projeto inclui um estudo ambiental, projetos de infraestrutura e regularização fundiária em 4 fases, visando melhorar a qualidade de vida dos moradores de forma sustentável.
This document contains a list of common words in the English language including pronouns, verbs, prepositions, and other basic words. There is no context provided around the use of these words, just their listing without any other content or narrative. The document provides an inventory of everyday English terms but no connected meaning or story.
This document introduces Rizwan A. Sheikh as presenting on behalf of Al Siddiq Traders FZE, a company based in the United Arab Emirates that trades goods and services. It provides the company website multiple times and invites any questions by also including the website.
We talk excessively without making progress, going around in circles and changing our goals instead of matching the world to our visions. We set out without clear direction, navigating blindly and building on an unstable foundation by piling up materials without a solid plan. True progress requires keeping a consistent vision and adapting the world to match it, rather than constantly changing course.
Jon Botten is highly skilled and talented leader with strengths in many areas. As CEO of Children's Therapy Center, he led with humility, putting the organization's success above any personal gain. He took risks to stay true to their mission of serving children in need, even when it was difficult. Jon is always strategizing and connecting ideas creatively. Any organization that hires him will benefit from his drive for excellence, compassion, and desire to make positive change.
Jon Botten has worked as CEO of Children's Therapy Center (CTC) for 17 years, transforming it from a small nonprofit to a large organization serving thousands annually across three sites. The reference letter highlights Jon's visionary leadership, strategic focus, ability to foster an empowering culture, entrepreneurial spirit, and strong work ethic. He inspires others to do more through his vision of what CTC can become and commitment to serving families with excellence. Jon also leads strategically by developing annual plans with staff and encouraging debate to make values-based decisions.
Jon Botten is an exceptional leader with a proven track record of transforming organizations. He took a small failing organization and turned it into a thriving industry leader through his vision and skills in business, strategy, execution, and managing people. Jon has breadth of knowledge and experience across diverse industries, with core competencies including team building, revenue growth, innovation, governance, and continuous learning. His willingness to take on new challenges, like managing construction projects, enables his continued success.
Rain has broken her hip after falling from a tree and needs extensive physical therapy. This leaves Cap without a caregiver. The doctor wants to send Cap to foster care but Mrs. Donnelly volunteers to take him in. She used to live at Garland Farm years ago and knows Rain, hoping this will make Cap more comfortable staying with her temporarily rather than in foster care.
The document is a letter of recommendation for Jon Botten from Joli LaBissoniere, who has worked with him for 14 years at Children's Therapy Center. It describes Jon's collaborative leadership style that values everyone's input and opinion. Over 14 years, Jon has helped the company navigate changes and grow from 20 employees to over 125 employees across 7 teams and 3 cities, with input from staff. Joli has observed Jon's proactive thinking, ability to inspire, and openness to questions without fear of difficult answers. Jon treats all staff with respect and has an open-door policy, which Joli credits as contributing to the company's success.
The document discusses the concept of inferring, which is using clues in a text to come to a conclusion that is not explicitly stated. It provides examples of different types of inferences one can make such as about emotions, locations, characters, actions, time/era, causes and effects. Making inferences involves identifying textual clues and connecting them with one's background knowledge to draw inferences. The document also provides questions to help guide making different types of inferences.
Jon Botten is highly skilled and talented leader with strengths in many areas. As CEO of Children's Therapy Center, he led with humility, putting the organization's success above any personal gain. He took risks to stay true to their mission of serving children in need, even when it was difficult. Jon is always strategizing and connecting ideas creatively. Any organization that hires him will benefit from his drive for excellence, compassion, and desire to make positive change.
Jon Botten has worked as CEO of Children's Therapy Center (CTC) for 17 years, transforming it from a small nonprofit to a large organization serving thousands annually across three sites. The reference letter highlights Jon's visionary leadership, strategic focus, ability to foster an empowering culture, entrepreneurial spirit, and strong work ethic. He inspires others to do more through his vision of what CTC can become and commitment to serving families with excellence. Jon also leads strategically by developing annual plans with staff and encouraging debate to make values-based decisions.
Jon Botten is an exceptional leader with a proven track record of transforming organizations. He took a small failing organization and turned it into a thriving industry leader through his vision and skills in business, strategy, execution, and managing people. Jon has breadth of knowledge and experience across diverse industries, with core competencies including team building, revenue growth, innovation, governance, and continuous learning. His willingness to take on new challenges, like managing construction projects, enables his continued success.
Rain has broken her hip after falling from a tree and needs extensive physical therapy. This leaves Cap without a caregiver. The doctor wants to send Cap to foster care but Mrs. Donnelly volunteers to take him in. She used to live at Garland Farm years ago and knows Rain, hoping this will make Cap more comfortable staying with her temporarily rather than in foster care.
The document is a letter of recommendation for Jon Botten from Joli LaBissoniere, who has worked with him for 14 years at Children's Therapy Center. It describes Jon's collaborative leadership style that values everyone's input and opinion. Over 14 years, Jon has helped the company navigate changes and grow from 20 employees to over 125 employees across 7 teams and 3 cities, with input from staff. Joli has observed Jon's proactive thinking, ability to inspire, and openness to questions without fear of difficult answers. Jon treats all staff with respect and has an open-door policy, which Joli credits as contributing to the company's success.
The document discusses the concept of inferring, which is using clues in a text to come to a conclusion that is not explicitly stated. It provides examples of different types of inferences one can make such as about emotions, locations, characters, actions, time/era, causes and effects. Making inferences involves identifying textual clues and connecting them with one's background knowledge to draw inferences. The document also provides questions to help guide making different types of inferences.
1. 127 SW 156
th
Street
Burien, WA 98166
253.216.0720
10811 SE Kent Kangley Road
Kent, WA 98030
253.854.5660
www.ctckids.org
8717 S Hosmer Street
Tacoma, WA 98444
253.531.8873
When Jon Botten was hired to be the CEO of Children’s Therapy Center in 1999, he came alongside a
non-profit organization that had a tremendous mission: provide excellent therapy services to all children that
needed them. So simply conceptualized, yet so challenging to accomplish. For the past seventeen years, the
fulfillment of this mission has been Jon’s passion.
Upon arriving, Jon recognized what was great about CTC: the excellence of our services, our dedication,,
and our dynamic culture. A priority for Jon has been to maintain these strengths in the face of unprecedented
growth and a host of challenges. Jon’s leadership style is to hire excellent people, maximize their strengths,
given them a voice, and empower them to be excellent in the fulfillment of their job duties. I simply cannot
imagine working for a better organization!
When Jon became CEO, Children’s Therapy Center was already providing great services, but it lacked the
infrastructure and efficient procedures needed to grow into the organization that it is today. In 1999, CTC was
renting a small building that was under-sized and under-staffed to meet the needs of the surrounding
communities. We were also struggling mightily with medical billing & reimbursements. Also at that time, CTC
was contracting out accounting and IT services, while our Development Department had great intentions, but
often poor results. Under Jon’s leadership, we have transitioned from renting one building to owning six. We
grew from one neurodevelopmental center to three. We can also boast now of maintaining professional Billing,
Accounting, IT, Facilities, and Development Departments ….with most of these services being hired out on
occasion to other organizations! On all fronts, Jon Botten has transformed a group of therapists with a dream
into a well-rounded, professional medical organization: CTC is now the largest and most comprehensive
provider of pediatric therapy services in the State of Washington!
2. 127 SW 156
th
Street
Burien, WA 98166
253.216.0720
10811 SE Kent Kangley Road
Kent, WA 98030
253.854.5660
www.ctckids.org
8717 S Hosmer Street
Tacoma, WA 98444
253.531.8873
When you get to know Jon Botten on a personal level, you will quickly realize that he is a life-long
learner. Two of Jon’s greatest strengths are to have the humility to embrace what he does not know, and the
tenacity to overcome any deficits thru extra college classes, books, blogs and conversations. Whenever
Children’s Therapy Center has been faced with a monumental challenge, Jon has studied the problem, sought
great advice, hired excellent people, and has gently guided us through to a resolution. At this time, Jon is able to
leave Children’s Therapy Center in pursuit of other opportunities because of the needs he identified and systems
he helped put in place. CTC had retained earnings this past fiscal year of $800,000, which was almost 10% of our
gross revenue. We now have a tremendous leadership team in place, excellent staff throughout, and our
internal processes are running smoothly.
I was hired in 2009 to manage in-house construction projects for CTC. As I came to know Jon, I was
surprised to discover that he did not have a formal background in the construction trades, because what I
observed would have led me to conclude otherwise. Jon had recently guided CTC through a complete remodel
of our Kent therapy center (2004), purchased & spruced up a property for our growing Development
Department & for SPIO, our orthotics-based social enterprise (2006), purchased & coordinated the construction
of our Tacoma therapy center (2007), and was gearing up for a remodel of another property that now houses
our Early Education program (2009). Jon could have continued in his role as a construction manager, but as
Children’s Therapy Center grew, so did a list of new challenges facing our organization. Not only did Jon have
the foresight to become a construction manager, he also the foresight to pass along those duties when more
pressing challenges lay on the horizon.
3. 127 SW 156
th
Street
Burien, WA 98166
253.216.0720
10811 SE Kent Kangley Road
Kent, WA 98030
253.854.5660
www.ctckids.org
8717 S Hosmer Street
Tacoma, WA 98444
253.531.8873
In whatever capacity you are considering Jon Botten, I would heartily recommend him to you. His
dedication to the mission of Children’s Therapy Center has left us in a much better position upon his departure
that what he inherited upon his arrival. You will never find a more passionate, even-tempered, hard-working,
forward-thinking, entrepreneurial-minded, problem-solving person. Jon has garnered the well-deserved respect
of his staff, leadership peers, Board of Directors, the families we serve, the non-profit community, and the cities
in which we provide therapy. If you give him the opportunity, he will soon earn your respect as well.
Feel free to call or email me for additional information; I am happy to expand upon these thoughts. You
are also most welcome to share this letter with others.
Respectfully,
David Buckles
General Manager, 501 Construction (CTC-owned)
Facilities Manager, Children’s Therapy Center
(206) 856-8019 Cell
david@ctckids.org