By Susan Phillips Bari
President and CEO

Last week I travelled to Los Angeles to attend "Global Leadership:  Portraits of the Past, Visions for the Future", presented by the International Leadership Association.  Leader to Leader Institute Chairman and Founding President Frances Hesselbein was one of five inductees into the Leadership Legacy Project of ILA. as instrumental in the founding of the discipline of leadership.

Also honored were Manfred Kets De Vries, Warren Bennis, and James MacGregor Burns as well as Bernard Bass and Joseph Rost (posthumously). Portraits of the honorees will be displayed on the newly-created Legacy wall at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland.
 
The trip West provided the perfect opportunity to visit Rick Wartzman, Director of the Drucker Institute at the Claremont Graduate University and Ira Jackson the Henry Y. Hvang Dean and Professor of Management at the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management. Rick's office contains a fabulous archive of Drucker memorabilia. With shared goals to perpetuate the teachings of Peter Drucker and other important thought leaders, we began a dialogue on programs and projects of mutual interest. In particular, I pledged that the Leader to Leader Institute would help to support and publicize the Celebration of the Drucker Centennial. The Centennial will mark the 100th birthday of Peter F. Drucker, the father of modern management and will conclude with a week of special events at the Claremont Graduate University in November 2009 (supplemented by other activities 2008-2010).