“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

J. KEVIN SHEEHAN

Year: 2018
Category: Leadership
People Impacted: 5000

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HE WAS NAMED "THE ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR"

Kevin Sheehan is the Executive Director and co-founder of Hope Collaborative where he is a member of Hope’s board of directors. Hope makes outstanding leadership development a standard for youth living in poverty around the world. He is also is the chief executive officer and co founder of LeaderJam LLC, the first global platform for engaging corporate teams with top experts and smart content to drive global change in organizations. Mr. Sheehan’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes Magazine, Fortune, Billboard, National Public Radio, The Wall Street Journal and other leading publications. Mr. Sheehan has a record of success building companies in the retail, Internet, non profit, and education segments. He is best known for creating Hear Music—an innovative music retail company, acquired by Starbucks, that helped redefine the national retail segment for more than two decades. He received his MBA from the Harvard Business School where he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year”and received his BA from Yale University. The Ben Franklin awards said that his book A Leader Becomes A Leader “should be in every library.”

HIS LIFE STORY

Mr Kevin Sheehan was born in Massachusetts.

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”