Leadership Excellence Center presents Hesselbein
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Frances Hesselbein, former chief executive officer of Girl Scouts of the USA, will speak on leadership issues at Lipscomb University Feb. 6 at 7 p.m. in Allen Arena, 3901 Granny White Pike.
Hesselbein's appearance is presented by Lipscomb University's Center for Leadership Excellence and is open to the public. Tickets are $20, including dinner, and advance reservations are required. For information, call 386-7653.
The program is sponsored by the Caroline J. Cross Chair in Family and Consumer Science at Lipscomb, and is associated with the university's Homecoming celebration.
Hesselbein is chairman of the Board of Governors of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management, and served as its founding president and chief executive officer from 1990 to 1998. She is also founding chairman of the Board of Governors of the Josephson Institute for Ethics, which is the parent organization of the Character Counts! Coalition. Character Counts! Nashville, which has grown into a separate organization from an initiative at Lipscomb University's Center for Character Development, is a member of the coalition.
Hesselbein was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States of America's highest civilian honor, in 1998. The award recognized her leadership as chief executive officer of Girl Scouts of America of the USA from 1976 to 1990 as well as her role in leading social-sector organizations toward excellence in performance through her work at the Drucker Foundation. Her contributions were also recognized by former President Bush, who appointed her to two presidential commissions on national community service. Mrs. Hesselbein is editor-in-chief of the quarterly journal Leader to Leader, and a co-editor of a book of the same name. She also is a co-editor of the Drucker Foundation's three-volume "Future" series and "Leading Beyond the Walls," the first book in the foundation's "Wisdom to Action" Series.