Today we visited the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro. One of the first things that you notice as you walk in is that the building is the total opposite of what most non-profit organizations look like, this was one of the first things that our Leader talked about. The inspiration for the CCL came from the visionary and highly successful businessman H. Smith Richardson Sr. In 1970 the Smith Richardson Foundation Inc. provided the funding for the Center for Creative Leadership. The mission of the CCL is to advance the understanding, practice and development of leadership for the benefit of society worldwide. The customers’ of CCL are individuals and companies who are trying to improve their careers. It is always important for individuals no matter what field you are in to improve on their leadership skills. These types of people are who CCL is focused on, people who are searching for this success while also trying to reflect on what they have been doing right in the past. CCl’s customers value the high level of leadership training and skills they or their employees receive while at CCL. The customers also value the ability that CCL has to match their customers with the program that best fits what the customer is trying to get out of their sessions.
CCL’s results can be seen all over the world. This is shown by the fact that they have helped develop leaders from more than 120 countries. The CCL annually serves more than 20,000 individuals and 2,000 organizations including more than 80 of the Fortune 100 companies across the public, private, nonprofit and education sectors. Last year alone, they funded 255 scholarships at a value of more than $1 million for leaders of nonprofit organizations to attend CCL education programs. In addition, their knowledge was disseminated to nearly two million people through CCL publications. CCl’s plan is to continue to improve in anyway possible. It plans to continue researching new ways for leaders to be effective and will continue to create programs that will tailor fit its customers desires.
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