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Mission: To strengthen and inspire leaders of the social sector and their partners in business and government.  Press Release For more information, contact: Theresa Berenato Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute 212-224-1171 Dianne Dinkel, President & CEO ATHENA International 312.580.0111 The Hesselbein Institute President and CEO Frances Hesselbein Attends ATHENA International Leadership Summit as Honoree Summit honorees and speakers inspired and motivated attendees from three countries. NEW YORK, MAY 4, 2011 - Frances Hesselbein, President and CEO of Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute in New York City recently attended the 17th annual ATHENA International Leadership Summit held May 2nd & 3rd in Chicago. The two-day event attracted over one-hundred participants from across the United States, Canada and Great Britain. The highlight of the summit was the awards dinner Monday evening, at which four Global ATHENA awards were presented to exemplary leaders and organizations whose body of work has positive national and/or global impact for women and girls. The 2011 awardees are: Maureen Kempston Darkes, Global ATHENA Leadership Award; Erika Harold, Global ATHENA Young Professional Leadership Award; Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP), the Global ATHENA Organizational Award; and Frances Hesselbein, the inaugural ATHENA Lifetime Achievement Award. The Global ATHENA Award is ATHENA's highest honor and its presentation one of the Summit's long-standing and most anticipated traditions. Among the previous recipients have been Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, NPR's Nina Totenberg, and former Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder. Maureen Kempston Darkes, the 2011 honoree, is retired General Motors Group Vice President and President of GM Latin America, Africa and Middle East. She spoke of the challenges she faced as one of the few executive women in the rough and tumble world of international automobile manufacturing. The 2011 Global ATHENA Young Professional Leadership Award recipient, Erika Harold, was Miss America in 2003, and a 2007 graduate of Harvard Law. She is an attorney with Burke, Warren, MacKay & Serritella, PC in Chicago. She related her compelling journey from victim of bullying and violence to Miss America to Harvard to successful attorney. She has used her national spotlight as Miss America to campaign for prevention of bullying and positive choices for teens, and today serves on the board of directors of Prison Fellowship, the world?s largest outreach to prisoners and their families. The Global ATHENA Organizational Award to Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP), was presented to Barbara Kasoff, President & Co-founder of WIPP. The non-partisan public policy advocacy organization on behalf of economic issues represents more than half a million women business owners. Frances Hesselbein, the recipient of the inaugural ATHENA International Lifetime Achievement Award, was also the keynote speaker for the event. She is President and CEO of the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute (formerly the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management) and the 2001 Global ATHENA Leadership Award recipient. In 1998 Mrs. Hesselbein received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her leadership as CEO of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., her role as Founding President of the Drucker Foundation, and her service as"a pioneer for women, volunteerism, diversity and opportunity." Other speakers included: Carolynn Brooks, Vice President & Chief Diversity Officer, OfficeMax; Connie Lindsey, Executive Vice President, Northern Trust; Martha Mertz, Founder, ATHENA International, Heather Paquette, ATHENA International Board Chair and a Partner in the Advisory Services Practice of KPMG, and Mary Schnack, President, Mary Schnack & Associates.
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