Terry Newell is currently director of his own firm, Leadership for a Responsible Society. His work focuses on values-based leadership, ethics, and decision making. A former Air Force officer, Terry also previously served as Director of the Horace Mann Learning Center, the training arm of the U.S. Department of Education, and as Dean of Faculty at the Federal Executive Institute. Terry is co-editor and author of The Trusted Leader: Building the Relationships That Make Government Work (CQ Press, 2011). He also wrote Statesmanship, Character and Leadership in America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and To Serve with Honor: Doing the Right Thing in Government (Loftlands Press 2015).
All in Profiles in Character
Selfless service on behalf of the nation is the hallmark of a great American. George C. Marshall exemplifies what America has had and will always need.
Determined to meet her professional and ethical responsibility, Kelsey refused to approve Thalidomide for use in America, preventing terrible damage to newborns.
In two acts of statesmanship, Gerald Ford helped heal a nation. It cost him a lot, but he never regretted it.
She would die before the battle for suffrage was won, but she never doubted that it would be or that the fight for women’s equality would continue after her.
Born into slavery, Fred Bailey was determined to learn. He used his hard-earned education and his voice to gain his freedom and campaign for abolition.
Seventy years ago, Margaret Chase Smith’s moral courage reminded us how important it is to stand up for core American values.
