Over his lifetime of public service, Senator Graham has not only learned the principles of leadership in what is considered one of the most competitive environments, American politics, but he has also mastered these principles to the point of being able to teach them to management teams. The Senator has learned over the years that the fundamental differentiation between management and leadership is the former takes what is and attempts to make it as efficient and productive as possible while a leader challenges the status quo. Senator Graham shows management teams how to possess the characteristics of leadership. Everyone can be a leader if you are willing to make the sacrifice to acquire the qualities necessary to challenge the status quo and shape a new future.

Senator Graham spent ten years on the Senate Finance Committee; six on the Banking Committee. His background on this topic is augmented by his service on the board of directors of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Norwegian Cruise Line.

Senator Graham has traveled and actively participated particularly in the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean for the last twenty-five years.

Having spent eighteen years on the Senate environment and public works committee and as Governor in 1983, he initiated a series of programs to Save Our Coasts; Rivers; the endangered manatee and his signature the Save the Everglades program. This initiative became the largest environmental restoration undertaken in American history. In June of 2005, he received the National Park Trust Public Service Award. President Barak Obama recognized his environmental stewardship when he tapped him to co-chair a bipartisan presidential commission investigating the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. ``We're drawing on America's best minds and using the world's best technology to stop the leak,'' Obama pledged in his weekly radio address, disclosing his choice of Graham and William K. Reilly, former President George H.W. Bush's EPA administrator, to chair the seven-member commission.

During the two terms of serving as Florida's Governor, Senator Graham earned the title "Florida's Education Governor." Her served as chairman of the Education Commission of the States. During his tenure as Governor, he was recognized by the United States Chief State School Officers as the public official who had made the greatest contribution to American education. He is currently serving on the board of directors of ACT, America's most widely accepted college entrance examination.