Corporate Leadership Center is a unique, collaborative business-academic forum that augments and accelerates the development of tomorrow's corporate leaders and advances business leadership practices.Corporate Leadership Center was founded in 2002 by Sheila Penrose and Cheryl Francis, whose experience and insight in executive management, board governance and business education roles prompted their decision to launch the Center, to bring together the best of the corporate and academic worlds in a collaborative partnership.Corporate Leadership Center offers two leadership development programs: CEO Perspectives, in conjunction with Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and Leading Women Executives.