Frances Hesselbein (born 1 November 1915) is the former CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA, from 1976 to 1990, and is the president and CEO of the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Forum, at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), Johnson Ins*ute for Responsible Leadership.

Contents

• 1 Career
• 2 Awards
• 3 Publications
  • 3.1 Author
  • 3.2 Editor
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Career

Hesselbein took cl*es at the University of Pittsburgh Johnstown Junior College in 1936.

Between 1965 and 1976, she rose from volunteer troop leader to CEO and held the position of CEO for thirteen years until 1990. During her tenure, the Girl Scouts attained a membership of 2.25 million girls with a workforce of 780,000, mainly volunteers.

In 1990, Hesselbein left the Girl Scouts to run the Leader to Leader Ins*ute (formerly known as the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management). After Drucker's death in 2005, the foundation was renamed after Hesselbein in 2012.

In 2009, she helped to found the Hesselbein Global Academy for Student Leadership and Civic Engagement at the University of Pittsburgh.

Hesselbein is the co-editor of 27 books published in 29 languages and the author of Hesselbein on Leadership and My Life in Leadership.

Hesselbein serves on the boards of the Mutual of America Life Insurance Company, the Bright China Social Fund, California Ins*ute of Advanced Management, and the Teachers College, Columbia University Presidents Advisory Council.

Awards

In 1998, Hesselbein was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work with the Girl Scouts of the USA. She turned 100 years old in November 2015.

Hesselbein was denoted a Pitt Legacy Laureate of the University of Pittsburgh in 2000. She has received 22 honorary doctoral degrees.

Publications

Author

• Hesselbein, Frances, foreword by Jim Collins, My Life in Leadership, 2011
• Hesselbein, Frances, and General Eric K. Shinseki, United States Army, Ret. Be, Know, Do: Leadership the Army Way, 2004
• Hesselbein, Frances, foreword by Jim Collins, Hesselbein on Leadership, 2002

Editor

• Hesselbein, Frances and Marshall Goldsmith, eds. The Organization of the Future 2: Visions, Strategies, and Insights on Managing in a New Era, 2009.

References

External links

• Frances Hesselbein Leadership Forum