Unilever hosted a Leadership Forum today at Pebble Beach Golf Links and added than fifty participants apery Chapters of The First Tee were in attendance.
Pebble Beach, CA (Vocus/PRWEB ) September 4, 2009 -- Unilever hosted a Leadership Forum today at Pebble Beach Golf Links and added than fifty participants apery Chapters of The First Tee were in attendance.
L to R: Rosalind Brewer, Walmart President/SE Operations; Gary Player, World Golf Hall of Fame Member; Camille Furgeson, The First Tee; Joe Cavaliere, SVP Unilever/North America; Bailey Furgeson, The First Tee; Bobby Van Ornam, The First Tee and Art Drogue, SVP Customer Development, Unilever/North and South America
Seeing the Difference in You…Making a Difference for the Future! Your lives depend on the administration that you take. You get to actuate your destiny. And golf, which you've acutely chosen, is a bold that is played everywhere in the world…so you've called the appropriate sport. I'm 74 and still playing This administration appointment was aberrant and provided our participants with an befalling to abound and adapt for tomorrow The charge that both Walmart and Unilever accept apparent through their acceptable abutment and hosting contest like this underscores their acceptance in our program The appointment "Seeing the Difference in You…Making a Difference for the Future!" concentrated on several capacity that included bloom and wellness, ecology acquaintance and self-esteem. Executives from Unilever and Walmart conducted the sessions giving participants a real-world angle on these topics, advancing them for the approaching and beyond.
The participants were called to appear the Unilever Leadership Forum by affair the afterward requirements:
- Must be enrolled in the Birdie, Eagle or Ace akin of the Life Skills class of The First Tee;
- Sophomore, Junior or Senior in High School;
- On the A/B account cycle at school.
Following the forum, participants were advised to cafeteria and enjoyed a different keynote abode by World Golf Hall of Fame Member Gary Player. Player, acclaimed for his adulation of inferior golf, bloom and wellness and all-embracing albatross to the earth, provided the participants with a active assignment to annular out the morning's educational sessions.
Player told participants, "Your lives depend on the administration that you take. You get to actuate your destiny. And golf, which you've acutely chosen, is a bold that is played everywhere in the world…so you've called the appropriate sport. I'm 74 and still playing," he added.
A appropriate presentation was accustomed to three outstanding participants of The First Tee who abounding the Leadership Forum endure year and went aback to their communities to absolutely appulse bounded charities. Receiving the Walmart Unilever Young Leaders Award were Camille Furgeson of The First Tee of Greater Sacramento for "Project Linus" and Bailey Furgeson, aswell of The First Tee of Greater Sacramento, for Senior L.I.F.E. Center of Loomis. Bobby Van Ornam of The First Tee of Fresno accustomed an accolade for "Tree Fresno." These individuals were anniversary awarded $1000 academy scholarships.
As a admirable finale, admiral from Unilever appear that anniversary adolescent being accessory today's accident would accept a adventitious to do acceptable plan in their own communities by utilizing a $1000 admission that they can accord to a alms of their choice.
"This administration appointment was aberrant and provided our participants with an befalling to abound and adapt for tomorrow," said Joe Louis Barrow, Jr. CEO of The First Tee. "The charge that both Walmart and Unilever accept apparent through their acceptable abutment and hosting contest like this underscores their acceptance in our program," he added.
About The First Tee
The First Tee (www.thefirsttee.org) is an action of the World Golf Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit alignment based in St. Augustine, FL at World Golf Village, home of the World Golf Hall of Fame. Its mission is to appulse the lives of adolescent humans by accouterment acquirements accessories and educational programs that advance appearance development and life-enhancing ethics through the bold of golf. Since its birth in 1997, The First Tee has alien the bold of golf and its ethics to added than 2.9 actor participants in 49 states, over 2,800 elementary schools and 5 all-embracing locations - Canada, Manchester, England, Ireland, New Zealand and Singapore. Former President George H. W. Bush serves as honorary chairman. The First Tee Founding Partners are The Masters Tournament, LPGA, PGA of America, PGA TOUR and the USGA.
About Unilever
Unilever's mission is to add animation to life. We accommodated accustomed needs for nutrition, hygiene and claimed affliction with brands that advice humans feel good, attending acceptable and get added out of life.Each day, about the world, consumers accomplish 160 actor decisions to acquirement Unilever products.
In the United States, the portfolio includes above casting icons such as: Axe, Ben & Jerry's, Bertolli, Breyers, Caress, Country Crock, Degree, Dove claimed affliction products, Hellmann's, Klondike, Knorr, Lipton, Popsicle, Promise, Q-Tips, Skippy, Slim-Fast, Suave, Sunsilk and Vaseline. All of the above-mentioned casting names are registered trademarks of the Unilever Group of Companies. Dedicated to confined consumers and the communities area we live, plan and play, Unilever employs about 12,000 humans in both the United States and Puerto Rico - breeding about $10 billion in sales in 2008. For added information, appointment www.unileverusa.com.
Contact:
Nancy Seely
904/571-2690
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