Leadership Nashville announces 2024-25 class [Video]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Leadership Nashville, an independent executive program founded in 1976, has announced its class for the upcoming year. The program, one of the oldest community leadership programs in the country, has a goal of connecting Nashville’s leaders while helping the leader emerge better equipped to make decisions that benefit the community.

“We do not attempt to provide solutions,” Evette White, the program’s executive director, said. “In fact, our participants are so diverse that they wouldn’t agree with each other – by design. Instead, we expose them to various viewpoints on each issue, believing that Nashville will be stronger because decisions these leaders make in the future will come from a broadened, enlightened perspective.”

The course focuses on issues related to government, media, diversity, equity & inclusion, business, education, quality of life, health, arts & entertainment, and public safety.

This year’s class was selected from more than 250 …