Ed Whitacre to Keynote at Dallas Session of Leadership America

Leadership America convenes with top leaders in Dallas area to discuss the
rapidly changing global environment

DALLAS, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ed Whitacre, CEO and Chairman of
General Motors Company, will keynote the first session of the 2010 Leadership
America program, in Dallas, Texas. Whitacre's daughter, Jessica Whitacre
Thorne, will conduct a rare interview of her father for the Leadership America
class.

"We are excited to have Ed Whitacre return to The Women's Museum," said
Wanda Brice, CEO of The Women's Museum. "As CEO of AT&T, Mr. Whitacre approved
the initial gift of $10 million to initiate the creation of the Museum."

Whitacre's session prefaces two days of intense speaker sessions and workshops
aimed at updating women leaders on the current state of our economy and how it
impacts their careers and at home. The class will spend a day at the Federal
Reserve Bank of Dallas and hear from: Richard W. Fisher, President and CEO;
Gloria Vasquez Brown, Vice President; Mark Wynn, Senior Economist and Vice
President, Director, Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute; and, Pia
Orrenius, Senior Economist and Research Officer.

Following the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Lucy Billingsley, Partner,
Billingsley Company, and, Herb Kelleher, Founder, Southwest Airlines Company,
will discuss survival tactics in times of economic uncertainty.

The session will conclude with a lesson in communication skills for leaders by
Dallas' own Merrie Spaeth of Spaeth Communications, Inc. Hattie Hill will
lead a discussion on ways to incorporate what the group has learned into their
leadership styles.

The theme of the 2010 programs is "Beyond Barriers - Blurred Boundaries,
Leading in an Interconnected World." Each stand-alone Leadership America
session deals with a different topics relating to rapidly changing global
environment: Dallas, Texas, the economy (Feb. 21 - 23, 2010); Atlanta,
Georgia, health care (May 2 - 4); and, Washington, D.C., education (Sept. 12
- 14). The optional International Session will take place in Abu Dhabi and
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (October 14 - 21).

Leadership America is the longest running national women's leadership
development program, equipping women leaders with the latest information and
innovation for professional and personal growth. After a year-long hiatus to
focus group and survey the over 2,500 alumnae of the program, Leadership
America emerged redesigned in 2009 to provide programming relevant to today's
women leaders. For more information, please contact: Haley Curry at
(214)915-0871 or haley.curry@thewomensmuseum.org.

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SOURCE The Women's Museum: An Institute For The Future

Haley Curry of The Women's Museum: An Institute For The Future,
+1-214-915-0871, haley.curry@thewomensmuseum.org