Amber Coté is the Leadership & Community Steward at the Center for Nonprofit Excellence. In this capacity she oversees the Executive Service Corps (ESC), corporate engagement for the nonprofit sector and facilitates community-wide volunteer engagement initiatives.

Ms. Coté is a native to the Pikes Peak region and has built her nonprofit career around improving the lives of under-served people for a better quality of life for all. Ms. Coté’s diverse experience in the field of nonprofit administration, education, victim advocacy and business informs her approach to collaboration-building and organizational leadership.

In the past twenty years, Ms. Coté supervised Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASAs) for abused and neglected children and later, victim advocates for survivors of domestic violence at TESSA; she was Executive Director for FutureSelf, where she oversaw programs, coordinated events and secured resources to provide creative self-expression and job training opportunities for at-risk youth; she advanced a collaborative regional early education initiative at Pikes Peak United Way; and most recently implemented a re-imagined volunteer services program robust enough to meet the ever-changing business needs and served as a key organizational liaison for Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado.

She has served on multiple nonprofit boards and advisory boards to include Community Prep School, Indy Give!, KRCC, Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Modbo Co School of Art and Urban Peak Colorado Springs. She's a graduate of the 2009 Leadership Pikes Peak Signature Program, the Community Leadership Program through the Center for Creative Leadership and a recipient of the Colorado Springs Business Journal Rising Star award.