Center for Leadership launches annual event to spotlight transcendent leaders

David Lawrence Jr. to speak at inaugural Chapman Leadership Lecture.

Retired in 1999 as publisher of The Herald, David Lawrence, Jr. has been a leading advocate for early childhood development and readiness.

David Lawrence, Jr. will deliver the keynote address for the inaugural Chapman Leadership Lecture at FIU.

Lawrence, former publisher of the The Miami Herald and early education advocate, will kick off the lecture series established as an annual forum for transcendent leaders whose lives and work create opportunities not only for their organization, but also the community they serve, and society at large.

Lawrence will deliver his address, titled “The Principles of Power and Leadership: How to get things done in Miami and America,” at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 12 at FIU’s Graham Center Ballroom.

Read more on the Center for Leadership website.

The lecture is free and open to the public. Please register online.