Background

For over 25 years Lee Hawkins has led others in several organizations through change using principle-based leadership. Lee was the State Director for Leadership and Organizational Development for the Oregon National Guard for over 12 years and he reported to the CEO of the organization.  In this capacity Lee taught, advised, facilitated, mentored, and coached senior leaders, mid-level mangers, and line employees in leadership and organizational issues including strategic planning, gap analysis, organizational design and diagnosis assessment, and systems management education.  Lee has facilitated groups and teams in various projects and group dynamics, and under his leadership influence, helped to successfully lead several organizations through the transformation process. 

As the only Master FranklinCovey Facilitator in the entire nation for the Army and Air National Guard, and one of only three in the entire United States Air Force, Lee traveled all over the United States including Hawaii, teaching and certifying other’s in various Leadership material such as The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, 4 Roles of Leadership, and Principle Centered Leadership.  He is also a certified instructor for various other Organizational and Personal Effectiveness programs including Lou Tice materials and Four Lenses (Colors/MBTI) workshops.  Lee has worked on projects with various national Leadership and Organizational Development experts over the years including Dr. Stephen R. Covey, Stephen MR Covey, Jim Collins, and Lou Tice. Lee is also the founder and CEO of Hawkins Institute.

Samples of Success

In one instance, Lee empowered his staff to change the current local payroll system in order to produce better control and more timely payrolls in a 2,200 member organization.  Within 36 months of this new payroll system, the innovative and creative changes that were made to the new local payroll system caught the eye of the national leaders and this new payroll system became the national payroll system for all the 50 states in the United States.

In another example, Lee took his new staff from meeting none of their annual goals in the past three years to a 500% result of the annual goals within the first quarter (90 days) of Lee joining the firm. He finished this same year with over 220% of annual goal met. Lee used principled based leadership, mentoring and coaching of staff as groups and individually along with having the staff come together to create a vision of what could be along with heart and mind based passion that all members of the team accepted as their own. This noteworthy outcome did not require employee overtime or cost cutting.

Lee is co-founder of an award winning annual young adult (ages 14-19) summer leadership camp which teaches personal change through the use of principles.  This camp has served over 500 young people with 90% of these campers completing school including college using the leadership skills taught at these camps.

Personal

He has volunteered his time teaching leadership development skills and practices to various organizations including the Boy Scout’s of America, and several Church organizations for the past 17 years.  Lee has also coached youth in baseball, softball, basketball, and soccer.

Lee earned his Bachelors degree with Honors (earning a 4.0 cumulative GPA) in Business from George Fox University along with a degree in Financial Management.  His hobbies include traveling, spending time at the beach, camping, and fishing in Eastern Oregon.  His number one priority is his family.

Lee has been married to Janet for over 34 years, and they have a daughter Stacey and two son’s Brain and Mark who are both Eagle Scouts. 

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