The Art of Leadership | Bill Strickland, CEO, Manchester Bidwell | Voices from the Field at HSPH

Topics discussed include how to effectively communicate with diverse groups, the necessity of a leader to provide vision, and the impact of creating a positive physical environment.

The Decision-making: Voices from the Field webcast leadership discussion series at Harvard School of Public Health invites leaders to speak about their experiences making decisions that affect global health. Highly interactive and candid, the series is produced in The Leadership Studio for a student audience. The high-definition webcast is streamed live and posted for future viewing. Students learn from experienced leaders about decisions that were effective, decisions that failed, and which decisions, if any, could have been made differently.

Bill Strickland, President and CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corporations, Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, and the Bidwell Training Center in Pittsburgh, is nationally recognized as a visionary community leader with marked success in community adaptation and revitalization. Manchester Bidwell Corporation — developed by Mr. Strickland over several decades — is a nonprofit organization in Pittsburgh that provides job training for adults, and arts education and mentoring to young people. Under his leadership, Manchester Bidwell has become a successful business model for social change, whose organizational culture fosters innovation, creativity, responsibility and integrity. President Obama selected Mr. Strickland to be one of the founding members of the White House Council for Community Solutions.