Paul Schmitz -- Everyone Leads: Building Leadership from the Community Up -- Gables

Start: Dec 19 2011 7:00 pm

Where is the leadership we need to solve our most pressing community problems? It’s all around us. Everyone Leads: Building Leadership from the Community Up (Jossey-Bass, $29.40) will inspire readers to see new leadership possibilities within themselves and their communities. Paul Schmitz, CEO of Public Allies, shares the experiences and lessons his organization has learned from two decades of finding and developing thousands of young leaders across the country. The author uses inspiring stories and practical examples to demonstrate what it means to lead today. He describes the emergence of Public Allies’ leadership model (and the important role played by Michelle Obama, who left a prestigious legal career to found Public Allies Chicago) and demonstrates its impact through the experiences of young leaders it has nurtured – such as the deli worker who now runs a disability rights organization, the single mom in community college who now works at the White House, and the ex-felon now leading a job training program and maintaining a 3.7 GPA in college. Schmitz also describes his own journey from an aimless youth to a national nonprofit leader and Presidential advisor. Everyone Leads offers a hopeful path for citizens, policy makers, and nonprofit organizations who want to build and engage the diverse leadership our communities and our democracy badly need.