Lenee Koch: Choosing Joy, Living Fully, and Leading with Heart

In this deeply moving and inspiring episode, Lenee Koch, Business Development Leader at Hensel Phelps, shares her extraordinary journey through sport, family, loss, and leadership.A Colorado native and the first gymnast at the University of Denver to ever score a perfect 10, Lenee reflects on how the discipline of gymnastics shaped her mindset and career in construction - a field she was drawn to through her father’s entrepreneurial path from immigrant cook to electrical contractor.She opens up about building her own business with her brother, finding her calling at Hensel Phelps, and how collaboration, humility, and integrity drive everything she does. Lenee also shares her family’s most personal chapter: the story of her daughter Kaydee, who battled Ewing’s sarcoma with courage and love, and whose spirit lives on through Project Sol Flower (https://www.projectsolflower.org/), a foundation granting bucket-list dreams to young adults with cancer.Lenee reflects on resilience, gratitude, and how to find light in the hardest moments. Her story reminds us that joy can be found in the smallest things, that grief can coexist with hope, and that perseverance is its own quiet form of heroism.If you’re moved by stories of faith, family, and finding meaning through adversity - this episode will stay with you long after it ends.