The 25th Annual Leadership 100 Conference, which convened from February 18 to 21, 2016 at The Phoenician in Scottsdale, Arizona, began with a Trisagion Service on Thursday, February 18, conducted by His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco in memory of Michael E. Jaharis, a Founder of Leadership 100, Vice President of the Archdiocesan Council and leading businessman and philanthropist who passed away in the Lord on February 17.

The Hellenism Forum on Thursday, February 18, 2016 at the 25th Annual Leadership 100 Conference featured a presentation by Pavlos Yeroulanos, Greece’s former Minister for Culture and Tourism, along with exhibits from the Benaki Museum of Athens. Yeroulanos is the great-grandson of the museum’s founder, Antonis Benakis. The Benaki Museum exhibits, mounted at the Museum’s expense prior to a United States tour, comprised 40-50 exact replicas from the museum illustrating Greek art from the pre-historic to the contemporary period, a replica of the notable St. Nicholas Icon, and the original album of photographs from the first modern Olympic Games held in Athens in 1896. The Exhibits opened with an Agiasmos (blessing) by His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco, the Conference host.

The Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis, Archdeacon of the Ecumenical Throne, delivered a special lecture on the forthcoming historically significant Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church on Friday, February 19 at the 25th Annual Leadership 100 Conference.

James M. Orphanides, a prominent member of Leadership 100, who became a Partner and the President of Centurion Holdings LLC in January of 2010, spoke at the Business Forum on Friday, February 19, 2016.

Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis, a longtime member of Leadership 100, engaged in a dialogue on international relations and domestic politics led by Mike Manatos, a member of the Executive Committee at the Saturday Forum on February 20, 2016 at the 25th Annual Leadership 100 Conference. She also touched on the subject of her recently published memoir, Madame Ambassador: Three Years of Diplomacy, Dinner Parties, and Democracy in Budapest. She served as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary from January 7, 2010 to July 20, 2013.