We began as the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management in 1990 with a simple challenge: How to share the best thinking on leadership and management with our partners in the social, public, and private sectors.

Six weeks after Frances Hesselbein left Girl Scouts of the USA, the largest organization for girls and women in the world, she became the CEO of the smallest foundation in the world, with no money and no staff—just a passionate vision and mission and Board of Governors.

Twenty-five years later, with the contributions of more than 5,000 thought leaders, the organization has published 27 books in 30 languages, and has continually published an Apex Award-winning quarterly Journal, Leader to Leader, the essential leadership resource for leaders in business, government, and the social sector. Leader to Leader was selected from among 2,075 entries for a 2014 Apex Awards of Excellence in the print category of Magazines, Journals, and Tabloids—Writing. In 2012, the Institute honored founding president Frances Hesselbein by renaming the Institute in her name.

One of the most highly respected experts in the field of contemporary leadership development, Mrs. Hesselbein was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States of America's highest civilian honor, in 1998. The award recognized her leadership as CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA as well as her role as the founding president of this Institute.

By fostering leadership grounded in

• the passion to serve,
• the discipline to listen,
• the courage to question,
• and the spirit to include,

the Hesselbein Institute works to create an open, responsive, global social sector, the equal partner of business and government.

Building on its legacy of innovation, the Hesselbein Institute explores new approaches to strengthen the leadership of the social sector. With sources of talent and inspiration that range from the local community development corporation to the U.S. Army to the corporate boardroom, the Institute helps organizations identify new leaders and new ways of managing that embrace change and abandon the practices of yesterday that no longer achieve results today.

The Hesselbein Institute provides innovative and relevant resources, products, and experiences that enable leaders of the future to address emerging opportunities and challenges. The Institute shares wisdom cultivated over two decades—from its groundbreaking work as the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management to its current focus on leadership education and timely management publications—guided by the vision, commitment and spark of Frances Hesselbein.