Presented at KMWorld 2018 by Mary Little (Enterprise Knowledge) and Hasan Syed (Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago), this presentation offers a case study from FHLBC on how they have communicated the value of KM to senior leadership and gained their buy-in by aligning KM initiatives to the organization’s overall strategic plan. This presentation showcases how they developed a KM Leadership Team for the service desk and leveraged the Leadership Team to spread the word up and across the organization about the benefits that a well-designed taxonomy, content strategy, enterprise search, and culture of collaboration can have on the productivity and engagement of its workforce. Originally presented at KMWorld 2018 in Washington, D.C.