Category: <span>Global Leadership Summit</span>

Our church started like many churches with few resources. After a few months, we had to switch locations because we couldn’t pay our rent. We were attracting the people I…

Most researchers invert. To study health, we study disease. To study marriage, we study divorce. If you study the bad, you don’t get good. You get un-bad. The difference between…

Driving around with son and he kept talking. Hit me that this is what my husband my felt like. Went home and told him. He said, “Thank you Jesus!” And…

Worked as a tutor, teacher, baker, lifeguard, librarian… Every place I worked there was a gap between values that was taught and what was lived. At Google I was hired…

27 years ago, I was sitting in the balcony and I heard Bill talk and I was ruined. I was holy dissatisfied. Our church is almost 22 years ago. We’ve…

We had 300,000 in jails and prisons. Now we have 2.3 million. Percentage of women going to prison has increased 646%. Bureau of Justice now predicts that 1 in 3…

How do creativity and leadership go together? What is the approach you have to creativity? 98% say creativity is important to their jobs. 45% say they are creative. In Sweden,…

What does it feel like to be invisible? I lived my life feeling invisible. Things can be done the right way. Most people expect me to come to these events…

I did not identify myself as a leader when I was younger. I was told I was bossy. What we see ourselves becoming is what we often become. Next time…

• What would happen if we all lifted our lift top desks and dropped them at the same time?
• “Billy it’s obvious to me you’re a leader….Whether you realize it or not, I think you’ll be quite a leader some day. I only hope you’ll use your leadership for good.”
• Am I a leader or am I just a troublemaker?
• When is the first time that it occurred to you that you might be a leader? The can usually identify the person who first made them believe they were a leader.
• Who do you owe the most for calling leadership out of you in early years? Who believed in you before anyone else did? Who gave you opportunities? Who said you can handle this, you can figure this out?
• We all owe huge debts to those who planted leadership seeds in us. None of us got to where we are today all by ourselves.
• Reflected on top five people who invested in me and I wrote notes to them. I bowed and prayed to God that I would not stop doing that.
• We must plant leadership seeds in the lives of younger people that we see leadership gifts in.
• Hotel server who was serving with excellence. Most outstanding server he had seen in many years. Server wrote a note. “No one had ever expressed belief in her young life before. Ever. She would remember table 18 and the chat they had for the rest of her life.” It took 2 minutes to have that chat.
• We are here because someone had a table 18 discussion with us. Sometime in the next 7 days, I challenge you to reflect on who those people were that invested in you. Write them. Call them.
• Renew our covenant to take the extra two minutes to notice and encourage young leaders.