Faces of the Global Leadership Summit

Every day we hear stories of leaders from around the world who are taking what they’ve learned at the Global Leadership Summit and applying it to their lives and their leadership. Here are just some of the stories we’ve heard:

“The questions I’m asking myself after Jim Collins’ session revolve around my energy: Am I putting it into the right place? Am I investing it and using it to propel my dreams and visions? Or am I using it to help others succeed?

Right now, my biggest leadership challenges are taking too much on myself and trying to protect my team rather than bringing other people into the conversations. I want to rely on God and my team, and work together to come up with a solution.

My next step to becoming a great leader is working on identifying who I am going to pour into, build up, let lead, fail, evaluate, and learn. I want to use my leadership to change lives by enabling people to see Jesus, experience His love, and see how He can bring ridiculous change into their lives. If people can see that through my leadership, that’s a giant win for me.”

– Jason Raitz, GLS Attendee, North America

“I’m in clinical research. I love my job, and thank God for it. I want to end this year better than we started. It was very challenging at the beginning of the year. By God’s grace, I hope to execute all our goals by the end of the year.

I hope the brain trust is something we can begin to implement at my job. I think getting my staff to be willing to speak the truth is the biggest thing I’m learning from the Summit. To learn from each other, and develop a trust with each other is so important. I think the challenges that we faced at the beginning of the year wouldn’t have happened if we had trust on our team. And if I wasn’t trying to do everything by myself, and the staff was able to tell me, ‘No, don’t do it this way.’ I want people to be able to talk freely, without feeling like their job is being threatened.

Sometimes things look easy on paper, but when you begin to implement it, it’s not that easy for people to tell the boss, ‘You’re wrong’. Sometimes we need to hear that. I want my staff to be comfortable enough to tell me I’m wrong. I believe it will help us grow.”

– Olayemi Claridge, GLS Attendee, Chicago

How have you been impacted by the Summit?

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