International Leadership Conference Coming to Abilene Area in August

For the second year, Hardin-Simmons University and HSU’s Logsdon Seminary are partnering with The Willow Creek Association to serve as a premiere host site for The Global Leadership Summit – a live satellite-broadcast leadership conference designed to transform Christian leaders around the world with an injection of vision, skill development, and inspiration for the sake of the local church. HSU is one of only 19 locations in Texas for the conference drawing more than 150,000 participants in the US alone. HSU will host the Summit on August 9 & 10 in Van Ellis Theater.

The 2012 Global Leadership Summit faculty comprise an impressive line-up of leadership talent, perspective, and insight. Speakers scheduled to appear this year include notable business and community leaders like Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Nationally Acclaimed Business Thinker and Author Jim Collins, Best-selling Author and Pulitzer Prize Winner Sheryl Wudunn, President & CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone Geoffery Canada, Founder and President of The Table Group and Best-Selling Author Patrick Lencioni, and Co-Founder and Senior Fellow of Harvard University’s Program on Negotiation William L. Ury.

In addition to nurturing leadership, the two-day conference also offers participants an opportunity to reflect on the impact of leaders as agents of transformation in a hurting world. More than an annual training event, The Global Leadership Summit represents leaders from an amazing diversity of cultures, denominations, and spheres of influence that come together to leverage leadership toward solutions for some of society’s greatest challenges. Last year, more than 120 Abilene-area leaders participated in this event.

Special rates are available for groups and individuals before June 28. Additionally, HSU is providing a limited number of scholarships for the event to underresourced non-profit leaders and ministers in the Abilene area. As a premiere host site, HSU has secured deeply discounted rates for HSU and Logsdon Seminary alumni, faculty, staff, students, and board members (a special code is available via the office below).

For more information or to register for The Global Leadership Summit at Hardin-Simmons University, please contact James C. Stone, Director of Church Relations for HSU at 325.670.1258 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Information and registration are also available online by CLICKING HERE.