Description of Vanderbilt University Video: Watch video of a Feb. 18, 2010, talk by Walter Earl Fluker, executive director of the Leadership Center at Morehouse College, speaking about leadership challenges.

The Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership hosts a series of leadership breakfasts over the academic year, inviting leaders from different sectors of society to lead conversations. Speakers address a time in their career when they faced a significant leadership challenge or failure and describe what they learned from it.

Walter Earl Fluker is executive director of the Leadership Center at Morehouse College, the Coca-Cola professor of leadership studies and editor of the Howard Thurman Papers Project. Known as an expert in the theory and practice of ethical leadership, Fluker serves on numerous boards, the National Selection Committee for U.S. News & World Report America’s Best Leaders and as distinguished speaker for the U.S. Embassy Speaker/Specialist Program in South Africa, Nigeria, India and China.