WASHINGTON —\u00a0Kim Davis is NHL Senior Executive Vice President of Social Impact, Growth Initiatives and Legislative Affairs, and forever a Girl Scout.<\/p>\n
Davis regaled the 58th\u00a0National Council Session and Girl Scouts Unite convention Friday with a photo of her receiving an award for selling the most Girl Scout cookies in Illinois when she was 10 years old.<\/p>\n
“Once a Girl Scout, always a Girl Scout,” she said.<\/p>\n
Davis recounted her experiences as she moderated a panel at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on the impact of athletics and the Girl Scouts in shaping girls into confident leaders and adults.<\/p>\n
“The vast majority of women who reach the highest levels of corporate leadership share a common thread: they are all girls who played sports during their formative years, and these leader athletes are disproportionately Girl Scouts,” Davis said. “And that’s because the Girl Scouts build the pipeline that promote confidence and resilience and systemic leadership capabilities.”<\/p>\n
She led a discussion that featured Megan Keller, a defenseman who scored the overtime goal for the United States against Canada in the gold medal game at the 2026 Winter Olympics; Tatyana McFadden, the most decorated U.S. Paralympics track and field athlete of all time with 22 medals; Mariel Hawley, a pool and open water swimmer who swam the English Channel; and Witney Carson, a two-time Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy winner on television’s “Dancing with the Stars.”<\/p>\n
“These women, in all of their own ways, have demonstrated that preparation, passion and purpose, when those intersect, magic happens,” Davis said. “And that is something that I think we should all take away.”<\/p>\n