Leadership Award
This award seeks to recognize a community leader who has demonstrated the following:
- An organization leader who is or has been a CEO or chairman of a public, private, or nonprofit organization.
- Success as a leader in northeast Ohio measured by the impact that the leader’s activities will have on the future of northeast Ohio.
- Leadership in fulfilling the responsibilities of a successful organization to its employees, to the community and to society as measured by how these activities will impact the future of northeast Ohio.
Help your club identify and recognize Northeastern Ohio’s leaders. Nominate your choice as the outstanding chief executive for the 2022 HBS Club of NEO Leadership Award.
This award is presented annually at an event in the spring.
Leadership Award presented to John Morikis, Executive Chairman – The Sherwin-Williams Company
Past Recipients:
1959 A.S. Stambaugh 1960 Frederick C. Crawford 1961 Kent H. Smith 1962 Vernon Stouffer 1963 George Gund 1964 Ralph M. Besse 1965 George M. Humphrey 1966 Maurice Saltzman 1967 Wade N. Harris 1968 George S. Dively 1969 William C. Treuhaft 1970 Edward W. Sloan, Jr. 1971 John David Wright 1972 Francis A. Coy 1973 H. Stuart Harrison 1974 E. Mandell deWindt 1975 Charles E. Spahr 1976 Claude M. Blair 1977 Richard B. Tullis 1978 Herbert E. Strawbridge 1979 Richard T. Baker 1980 Larry R. Robinson 1981 M. Brock Weir 1982 Allen C. Holmes 1983 William S. Kiser 1984 Ruben F. Mettler 1985 Morton L. Mandel 1986 James M. Biggar 1987 Robert M. Ginn 1988 John G. Breen 1989 Albert B. Ratner 1990 Kevin O’Donnell 1991 James R. Stover |
1992 Edward B. Brandon 1993 Stanley C. Gault 1994 David H. Hoag 1995 Thomas C. Sullivan 1996 Struchen/Heffern/Gillespie 1997 Martin D. Walker 1998 Farah M. Walters 1999 Peter B. Lewis 2000 Joseph T. Gorman 2001 Stephen R. Hardis 2002 A. Malachi Mixon, III 2003 David Daberko 2004 W.R. Timken, Jr. 2005 Sandy Cutler 2006 Frank Linsalata 2007 Toby Cosgrove 2008 James D. Ireland III 2009 Christopher Connor 2011 B. Charles Ames and William Jones 2012 Richard and Timothy Smucker 2013 Charles P. Bolton (MBA 1968) 2014 Alfred M. Rankin, Jr. 2015 Barbara R. Snyder 2016 The Gund Family 2017 David Gilbert 2018 Richard W. (Dick) Pogue 2019 Beth Mooney 2020 Jack Schron 2021 John Zitzner 2022 Paul J. Dolan 2023 Brian Zimmerman 2024 John Morikis |