Frances Hesselbein, President and CEO, Leader to Leader Institute
Frances Hesselbein is the
President and CEO of the Leader to Leader Institute (formerly the Peter
F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management) and its Founding
President. Mrs. Hesselbein was awarded the Presidential Medal of
Freedom, the United States of America’s highest civilian honor by
President Clinton, in 1998. The award recognized her leadership as CEO
of Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. from 1976-1990, her role as the Founding
President of the Drucker Foundation, and her service as “a pioneer for
women, volunteerism, diversity and opportunity.” Her contributions were
also recognized by the first President Bush, who appointed her to two
Presidential Commissions on National and Community Service. In 2009, Mrs. Hesselbein was appointed the Class of 1951 Chair for the Study of Leadership
at the United States Military Academy at West Point, in the Department
of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership. She is the first woman, and the
first non-graduate to serve in this chair. Also in 2009, the University
of Pittsburgh introduced The Hesselbein Global Academy for Student Leadership and Civic Engagement.
The Academy’s aim is to produce experience and ethical leaders who will
address the most critical national and international issues and to
advance positive social and economic initiatives throughout the world. She
serves on many nonprofit and private sector corporate boards, including
the Board of the Mutual of America Life Insurance Company, New York,
the Bright China Social Fund, the American Express Philanthropy,
U.C.S.D. Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
and Center for Creative Leadership’s Alliance Advisory Council. She was
the Chairman of the National Board of Directors for Volunteers of
America from 2002-2006 and is the recipient of twenty honorary doctoral
degrees. Mrs. Hesselbein was duly honored with a Lifetime Award
for her exceptional work as a former CEO of the Girl Scouts and her
continued commitment to developing leaders of all ages as demonstrated
in her work with the Leader to Leader Institute at the 34th Annual
Tribute Dinner of the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York. Mrs.
Hesselbein was also inducted into the Enterprising Women Hall of Fame at
the 7th Annual Enterprising Women of the year Awards Celebration. In
2008, Mrs. Hesselbein was presented with the International Leadership
Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Los Angeles, and the Tempo
International Leadership Award in New York City. She was named a Senior
Leader at the United States Military Academy, 2008 National Conference
on Ethics in America. In 2007, Mrs. Hesselbein was awarded the John F.
Kennedy Memorial Fellowship by Fulbright New Zealand and was the first
recipient of the Dwight D. Eisenhower National Security Award in 2003. Mrs. Hesselbein is Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning quarterly journal Leader to Leader, and a co-editor of a book of the same name. She is the author of Hesselbein on Leadership and with General Eric K. Shinseki, introduced Be, Know, Do: Leadership the Army Way. Mrs. Hesselbein is the co-editor of 27 books in 29 languages. Her autobiography My Life in Leadership was published in February 2011.
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