The Lifetime of Leadership award celebrates those transformational leaders whose character and sustained contribution span sectors, decades, and generations with wise ambassadorial service, mentoring contributing powerfully to improve business performance, economic growth, creativity, community vitality, human understanding, national strength, and global relations.
December 2022
President Lech Wałęsa
President of Poland; Nobel Peace Prize laureate
December 2021
General Mark A. Milley
Chairman, U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
June 2021
Lester Crown
Chairman, Henry Crown and Company
December 2019
Carla A. Hills
U.S. Trade Representative (1989-1993) and Fifth U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
December 2018
Andrew J. Young
Mayor (1982-1990), Atlanta, Georgia; U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (1977-1979)
June 2018
Farooq Kathwari
CEO, Ethan Allen
December 2013
David Stern
Former Commissioner, National Basketball Association
December 2011
Maurice R. Greenberg
Chairman and CEO, C.V. Starr & Co., Inc.
June 2010
John Whitehead
Co-Chairman (1976-1985), Goldman Sachs
2002
Al Gordon
Honorary Chairman, Kidder, Peabody & Co.