Girl Scouts of Central Maryland CEO, Traci A. Barnett, M.B.A., was the guest speaker at the Towne Group’s Leadership Conversations series on Tuesday, May 14, 2013. Leaders of nonprofit enterprises, many of whom are women, that are based in Howard County and beyond gathered at Ascend One to participate in the third of Towne Group’s Leadership Conversations series.

Girl Scouts of Central Maryland, which celebrated its 50^th anniversary in October 2012, serves 27,000 girls in grades K-12 in Baltimore City, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford and Howard counties and provides training, resources and support for nearly 11,000 adult volunteers. Traci shared the insights she has gained from her years of experience leading nonprofits organizations and specifically about her leadership experience at Girl Scouts of Central Maryland where she has served as CEO for the past eleven years.

Traci is  a 2012 recipient of SmartCEO’s BRAVA! award and a  member of The Daily Record’s Top 100 Circle of Excellence.

The Leadership Conversations series, co-organized with Beverley Francis-Gibson of B. Francis Consulting, brings together area nonprofit leaders for informal quarterly discussions about managing not-for-profit organizations.