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National Leadership Council

The National Leadership Council (NLC) is comprised of prominent business leaders, scholars and public servants who support CEP's core mission and believe that comprehensive character education is the key to transforming our nation into a more just and compassionate society.
 

Dr. David M. Abshire
President
Center for the Study of the Presidency
Washington, DC

Mr. Norman R. Augustine
Chairman of the Executive Committee
Lockheed-Martin Corporation
Bethesda, MD

Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski
Senior Advisor
Center for Strategic & International Studies
Washington, DC

Mrs. Barbara Bush
Former First Lady
Houston, TX

Professor Stephen L. Carter
William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law
Yale Law School
New Haven, CT

Dr. Stephen R. Covey
Co-Founder/Vice Chairman
Franklin Covey Company
Provo, UT

Dr. William H. Danforth
Chancellor Emeritus
Washington University
St. Louis, MO

Mr. Archie Dunham
Chairman and CEO (Ret.)
ConocoPhillips
Houston, TX

Mr. George H. Gallup, Jr.
Chairman
The George H. Gallup International Institute
Princeton, NJ

Mr. Robert W. Galvin
Chairman of the Board (Ret.)
Motorola, Inc.
Schaumburg, IL

Mr. Earl G. Graves
Chairman and CEO
Black Enterprise Magazine
New York, NY 

Mr. J. Barry Griswell
Chairman, President and CEO
The Principal Financial Group
Des Moines, IA

Mr. Walter Isaacson
President and CEO
The Aspen Institute
Washington, DC 

Mr. William S. Kanaga
Former Chairman
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
New York, NY

 

Dr. Peter S. Lynch
Vice Chairman
Fidelity Management & Research Company
Boston, MA 

Robert J. Mazzuca
Chief Scout Executive
Boy Scouts of America
Irving, TX

Mr. Harold McGraw III
Chairman and CEO
McGraw-Hill Companies
New York, NY

Mr. John E. Pepper
Retired Chairman and CEO
The Procter & Gamble Company
Cincinnati, OH

General Colin L. Powell, USA (Retired)
Former Secretary of State
Alexandria, VA

Dr. Richard W. Riley
Former U.S. Secretary of Education
Washington, DC

Dr. Harold T. Shapiro
President Emeritus
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ

Dr. Ralph W. Shrader
Chairman and CEO
Booz, Allen & Hamilton Inc.
McLean, VA

Dr. John M. Templeton Jr. 
President
John Templeton Foundation
Radnor, PA

Hon. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Former Lieutenant Governor
State of Maryland
Baltimore, MD

Mr. James S. Turley
Chairman and CEO
Ernst & Young LLP
New York, NY

Mr. William H. Webster
Partner
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy
Washington, DC

Dr. Clifton R. Wharton, Jr.

Former Chairman and CEO

TIAA-CREF

New York, NY