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Shelby Scarbrough

Co-Founder, nCourage Entrepreneurs

The co-founder of nCourage Entrepreneurs, Shelby Scarbrough has an extensive entrepreneurial background and is a civility thought leader. She authored Civility Rules! Creating a Purposeful Practice of Civility.

 


About Shelby Scarbrough

Shelby Scarbrough boasts a robust entrepreneurial background with extensive experience in the public sector. She served as Global Board President for the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), an international association of over 10,000 highly motivated entrepreneurs worldwide in 40 countries.

Shelby spent three years traveling the globe speaking to international businesses on behalf of EO.

As a chief “EO Ambassador,” she initiated legacy programs in global sponsorships, external awareness, and raised the global stature of the organization with a year long, global 20th Anniversary celebration.

Shelby is a public speaker, covering topics ranging from customer service to civility. In August 2015, she was chosen as graduation speaker and reunion chairman for her Harvard Business School graduation class of the Owner President Managed program.

Throughout her career, Ms. Scarbrough worked with such notable figures as: His Holiness, Pope John Paul II, Presidents Reagan, Bush, Ford, Carter and Nixon, President Walesa of Poland, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and members of the Royal Family, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Nelson Mandela.

She planned events and meetings in locations ranging from the Vatican to Buckingham Palace, The Kremlin and The White House.

Understanding civility from George Washington

Civility Rules

Creating A Purposeful Practice Of Civility

George Washington’s Rules Defined While our civilization continues to advance, our capacity to live civilly―to appreciate our common humanity with empathy and humility―ironically dwindles daily. Even as we become more technologically connected, many of us feel increasingly disconnected and disengaged from each other. Civility Rules! offers an opportunity to learn about…

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