The Southeast Georgia Leadership Forum has opened the scholarship application process for the 2024 Forum to be held February 26-27, 2024, at Kehoe Iron Works at Trustees Garden. 

To ensure the Forum includes emerging, established and diverse leaders from civic groups, non-profits, neighborhoods, government, and business, the Forum grants 50 scholarships each year so all community leaders have an opportunity to attend. 

With its core mission being to include, listen, learn, act and grow, the Forum was founded to help our region address generational systemic poverty, isolated silos of community and communication, while moving the community forward towards excellence and growth opportunities for all.

The scholarship selection committee is composed of a diverse group of community volunteers who are interested in identifying leaders who would benefit from the forum but may not have the ability to afford the attendance fee. Applicants can be nominated by others or by self. The number of scholarships is limited, and recipients will be notified by the selection committee no later than February 2, 2023.  Note: 2023 Scholarship award winners are not eligible to apply for a Forum Scholarship until 2025.

 To apply for a scholarship, please visit -

https://southeastleadershipforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2024-Southeast-Georgia-Leadership-Forum-Scholarship-Application-Updated-111223.pdf

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

“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.”

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.

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

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.  Now discounted ticket bundle packages are available - two tickets for only $890/three tickets for $1300. Ticket bundle packages or individual tickets can be purchased online by using this link:https://southeastleadershipforum.com/tickets.

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