Join us again for the Navigate Your Health Career Summit February 2026

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Dream Create and Inspire

Fireside chat

Bobby King

Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Bobby King, vice president of diversity, equity, and inclusion, is responsible for the strategic leadership, direction, and accountability of internal and external diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at Colorado Access. This includes the implementation of short-term and long-term strategic priorities along the pillars of members, providers, health care systems, workplace, procurement, regulatory, and community.

Bobby’s experience includes more than 25 years in high tech, municipal government, and health care roles within the areas of people services operations; executive search, business process improvement, systems redesign, cultural change, diversity, equity, and inclusion; cultural responsiveness, supplier diversity; leadership, training, and organization effectiveness.

Prior to joining Colorado Access, Bobby served as the senior vice president and chief human resource officer for the YMCA of Metro Denver, director of diversity, equity, and inclusion for Kaiser Permanente’s Colorado region and chief human resources officer for the city of Longmont, Colorado.

Bobby currently serves on the board of directors for the Liv Project and as co-chair for the White Bison Foundation. He is a Six Sigma Brown Belt/Champion, certified organization development consultant, professional trainer, and a member of the Society for Human Resources Management, as well as a lifetime member of the National Association of African Americans in Human Resources and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. Bobby is a recipient of the Denver Business Journal’s inaugural Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Leadership award and was featured in the Marquis Who’s Who in America in 2023. He is also a recipient of the Menola Upshaw Lifetime Achievement Award, a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Colorado Holiday Commission Humanitarian Award.

Bobby has a Bachelor of Science degree in political science from Tennessee State University and holds a Master of Arts degree in organization management from the University of Phoenix.

Agenda

8:15 AM – Registration & Check-in – Check in at the Turnhalle, grab your name badge and head in for burritos and drinks

9:15 – 9:55 AM – Welcome and morning activity with Dream, Create, and Inspire

10:10 – 10:30 AM – Fireside chat keynote with William Wright, MD and Bobby King

10:30 – 10:45 AM – Break

10:45 – 11:30 AM – Breakout Sessions 1

11:45 – 12:30 PM – Breakout Sessions 2

12:30 – 1:45PM Resource Fair and Lunch

1:45 – 2:30PM Closeout with DCI