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The first responsibility
of a leader is to define
reality.

The last is to say
thank you.

In between a leader is a servant and a debtor.”

—Max De Pree

“We need to give each other the space to grow…


  to be
 ourselves,

to exercise our diversity.

We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.” —Max De Pree

 

About Max De Pree

 
Max De Pree, former CEO of Herman Miller and best-selling author writes about love, elegance, caring, inclusivity in the same sentence as leadership. Not the usual business book material.

De Pree delves deeper and inspires us to look beyond the how-tos to the why of leadership and its practices. Who we are matters, as do our relationships, when it comes to building successful, productive organizations.

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Who We Are

 
Our Center was created in honor of Max De Pree, whose leadership, beliefs, values, and way of being in this world we all greatly admire and hope to emulate. De Pree has been a mentor to Walter Wright, our executive director, for nearly three decades.

We continue to ask his questions, as well as our own, as we explore what leadership and thriving as individuals and members of an organization mean to our own generations.

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