Biography

Frances Hesselbein is the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Leader to Leader Institute and former CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA. Mrs. Hesselbein was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States of America's highest civilian honor, in 1998. In 2002 Mrs. Hesselbein was the first recipient of the Dwight D. Eisenhower National Security Series Award for her service with the U.S. Army.

Frances Hesselbein is the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Leader to Leader Institute and former CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA. Mrs. Hesselbein was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States of America's highest civilian honor, in 1998. In 2002 Mrs. Hesselbein was the first recipient of the Dwight D. Eisenhower National Security Series Award for her service with the U.S. Army.

She serves on many non-profits and private sector corporate boards, including the Veteran's Corporation Advisory Board, the Board of the Mutual of America Life Insurance Company, New York, and the Boards of the Centre for Social Initiative at the Harvard Business School and the Hauser Centre for Non-profit Management at the Kennedy School.