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Leading Light Award

Leading Light Award

Leaders Who Exemplify IWF Values

This Leading Light Award is conveyed on very rare occasions. It celebrates those singular leaders who have made a unique, lasting, and significant contribution to the global organization, leaders whose wise counsel and grace exemplify IWF’s values. The award recognizes vision and action that have shaped IWF globally.

Meet Our 2025 Honorees

Terry Axelrod
Terry Axelrod Founder and CEO
Benevon
IWF Washington State
Deborah Trudeau
Deborah Trudeau Corporate Director
IWF Canada
Marty Wilkstrom
Marty Wikstrom Founder
Atelier Fund
IWF United Kingdom

Shining a light on the art of the possible

Former Previous Awardees

2022

Allyson Maynard Gibson

  • IWF Bahamas
  • Former Leadership Foundation President 2003 – 2005
    Former IWF Global President 2009 – 2011

2018

Teresa V-F Weintraub

  • IWF Florida
  • Former IWF Global President 2016 – 2018

2014

Rosalynn Carter

  • IWF Georgia
  • Former First Lady of Georgia and the United States

2012

Reem Abu Hassan

  • IWF Jordan
  • Former Leadership Foundation President 2013 – 2015

2010

Esther Silver-Parker

  • IWF Arkansas/New York
  • Former IWF Global President 2007 – 2009

2008

Elsie Hilliard Hillman

2003

Micheline Bouchard

  • IWF Canada

2003

Pamela Garside

  • IWF United Kingdom
  • Former Leadership Foundation President 2009 – 2011

2003

Jeanne Herberger

  • IWF Idaho

2003

Lou Kerr

2003

Fran Streets

  • IWF Northern California
  • Former IWF Global President 1997 – 1999
    Former Leadership Foundation President 1999 – 2001

2003

Carol Cox Wait

  • IWF Washington, DC
  • Former Leadership Foundation President 2007 – 2009