To be an effective leader, you have to have personal accountability.

That’s the message that Linda Galindo will share on Tuesday, April 5 from 2:30 to 4 p.m. in the Bill & Pat Child Family Community Hall during her free presentation that is open to the public.

Galindo is a former radio news personality who left that career 20 years ago to become a consultant. She wrote the book, “The 85% Solution: How Personal Accountability Guarantees Success – No Nonsense, No Excuses,” which focuses on how personal accountability impacts effective leadership. Students from all majors are encouraged to attend.

“I wanted to put the topic of accountability in our national conversation before crises and problems arose,” Galindo says on her website. “I got tired of reporting on situations in which accountability was not present but should have been. Rather than talking about accountability after the fact – often when it was already too late to make an impact – I have made it my life’s work to bring accountability proactively into organizations at the leadership level where it is really needed.”

Galindo serves as faculty for the Governance Institute, which serves boards of directors and C-suite healthcare executives, and the Institute for Management Studies. She speaks internationally to inspire leaders to empower themselves and those that follow them to speak the truth and be fully accountable for their actions.

Her presentation is sponsored by the Student Center for the Public Trust, informally known as the Ethics Club, and the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative at the David Eccles School of Business.

“We are thrilled to have Linda here to discuss this topic,” said Melissa Western, David Eccles emerging scholar and associate professor at the Eccles School. “Emphasizing to our students the importance of personal accountability will help the next generation of business leaders conduct itself with ethics at the forefront.”