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1986 |
During his years as president of Junior Achievement Inc., Dick Maxwell maintained a clear vision and effectively assembled outstanding talent to implement the organization’s goals. He forged new directions for the organization, providing employees the opportunity to realize greater challenges and personal success. Maxwell’s leadership created an atmosphere of self-fulfillment, self-accomplishment, and self-realization.
Maxwell is a native of Troy, Ohio. His early corporate experience found him rising through the ranks at the Reynolds Metal Company where his talents and management expertise propelled him to an appointment as the assistant to the president and CEO, and eventually to the Executive Committee. He was later promoted to vice president and GM of Reynolds Foreign Sales. Maxwell left the corporate world after 20 years when he was named National president of the Better Business Bureau, a position which he held until accepting the position of president and CEO of Junior Achievement in 1970.
Maxwell faced many challenges in his early tenure with Junior Achievement: a budget deficit, a National Board of Directors comprised of 135 individuals, and a program format that had remained unchanged in principle since the program’s inception. His management prowess provided him with the necessary tools to restructure the corporation’s mission, the staff, and the programming which led to financial growth. Very early in his leadership role, Maxwell unveiled six National goals which became the catalyst for our organization: Financial Solvency; Involved Business Leadership; Greater Public Awareness; Improved Product; Increased Professionalism; and Growth.
The results of the direction which Maxwell brought to Junior Achievement in the early 1970s, although difficult and challenging to implement, did in fact provide the foundation for what we accept today as a way of doing business.
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