The Southeast Georgia Leadership Forum announced details about the 2024 Forum, to be held February 26-27, 2024, at Kehoe Iron Works at Trustees Garden. 

“The Forum is designed to bring established and emerging leaders together in an innovative environment promoting leadership development, networking and collaborative teamwork for the betterment of our growing Coastal Georgia region,” said Charles Hill Morris, co-founder of the Southeast Georgia Leadership Forum. “And, we are excited that in our third year, we are able to feature an opportunity for attendees to tour various regional sites based on their interest subject.”

Past Forums have had more than 400 attendees each year, including emerging, established and diverse leaders from civic groups, non-profits, neighborhoods, government, and business.  The Forum also awards more than 50 scholarships/year to leaders who cannot afford the cost of attendance and would benefit by being in attendance.

Forum speakers have included Stedman Graham, Horst Schulze, Michael Thurmond, John O’Leary, Hala Moodlemog, Mashama Bailey and John Morisano.

2024 Speakers will include:

• Dr Bruce McCabe a global futurist and international keynote speaker who presents on the future of medicine, computing, artificial intelligence, energy, genomics – wherever the game-changers happen to be. McCabe, who has held senior roles at IBM, WordPerfect, Novell and Gartner,  founded S2 Intelligence in 2002, a think tank to support organizational innovation through grounded research. 

• Malcom Mitchell, a top ten all-time receiver at the University of Georgia (UGA), and member of the 2017 New England Patriots Super Bowl Champion team, is a published children’s author sharing his love of reading by creating a youth literacy initiative called Read with Malcolm and the Share the Magic Foundation, an organization that has donated over 65,000 books to date.

• Stephanie Stuckey, currently the third generation owner and Chair of Stuckey’s, an Eastman Georgia company, Stuckey’s pecan snacks and sweets was founded in 1937 by her grandfather, W.S. Stuckey, Sr. Stephanie was able to return the company back to a family-owned business in 2019. Under her leadership, Stuckey, who was named one of the Most Admired CEOs of 2022 by the Atlanta Business Chronicle and one of the 100 Most Influential Georgians by Georgia Trend Magazine grew sales of Stuckey’s pecan snacks and sweets from $2 to 14 million.

Tours being planned include learning around the following interest areas:  Economic Development and the I-16 Corridor, Affordable Housing and Homelessness, the Ports and Logistics, Higher Education, and others.

Additional speakers, tours, the 2024 Legacy Leadership Award recipients, and more details about the 2024 Forum will be announced soon.

Cost for the 2024 Forum is $490 and includes access to all speaker presentations/regional tours, lunch each day, morning coffee/afternoon beverage/snack bars, and invitations to additional special events being held during the forum.  

Major sponsors of the Forum include Gulfstream Aerospace, Georgia Southern University, Georgia Power, and Morris Multimedia. 

Sponsorship and scholarship opportunities are currently available. Tickets may be purchased online at:https://southeastleadershipforum.com/tickets.

For more information visit https://southeastleadershipforum.com.