Social Innovation

Bill Strickland is my new hero. Seeing him speak was refreshing. His words carried weight, and I listened. Head of both the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild and the Bidwell Training Center, Strickland impacts more lives than a John Maxwell speech could ever dream to accomplish. Strickland takes single-mothers and turns them into gourmet chefs, analytical chemists, and pharmacy technicians. His secret, just fresh flowers and sunlight. He takes struggling high-schoolers, and puts them in college. As he explained, "people are a function of environment, a function of hope." Thus, he asserts "we're in the attitude business, not just the training business."