God rarely calls leaders to accomplish His work in isolation
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Influential leaders focus first on their development as a person and second on their development as a leader.
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Every one of us has the opportunity to impact the culture around us. Let’s choose to make a kingdom impact by investing in companies that provide a financial return alongside a kingdom return that moths and rust cannot destroy and thieves cannot steal.
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In the age of the “influencer,” perhaps we have been missing one of the most powerful pools of individuals who can help shape not only our culture now, but the next generation: university professors.
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Entrepreneurship is an extremely brutal sport and often enacts a heavy toll on its participants. The high-failure rate among start-ups is well known; what is less talked about is the personal struggles that entrepreneurs can face at deep levels, whether or not their companies ultimately succeed.
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If you are not a mentor and would like to step into the opportunity to pour out your life into the life of a future leader, Leadership Edge offers an online, interactive training that will provide a framework for authentic, Life-On-Life mentoring.
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Millennials want a coach and a mentor rather than a boss. Danita asks the questions “What are the coaching and mentoring micro-moves that we can make that will have a major lifetime empire state building impact on our millennials?” and “Will YOU be that domino difference?”
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It’s Tuesday. Which means it’s time to gather. Or, as you might say, it’s time to Convene. And that’s exactly what we’re talking about today. Our guest, Greg Leith leads a ministry to Christian CEOs and Entrepreneurs called Convene. His work there has taught him what it means to be a healthy leader, as well as what we as entrepreneurs can do to foster and encourage our growth as both leaders and people...
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When you think of “mentorship,” what comes to mind? A cookie-cutter idea of what a mentor looks like and does? Something stiff and one dimensional? Hallie Graves, lawyer and director of the Austin chapter of Polished, wants to open our eyes to the different “flavors” of mentors out there, and how we can make our time with them as beneficial as possible. This is an interview done with 4Word.
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Our most recent podcast guest, Diane Paddison, founded 4Word, a nonprofit mentorship program and community for professional Christian women. In this post, she recounts her experience mentoring someone whose life looks almost nothing like hers. Diane felt God’s call to connect with Lopez Lomong, a South-Sudanese, two time Olympian, male athlete. Though she thought they were an unlikely pair, the experience of mentoring Lopez has enriched her life beyond belief.
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We are so excited to share our interview with you today. Diane Paddison is the Founder and President of 4Word—a group where she is a leading advocate for the professional Christian women community. She is a Harvard MBA graduate, the former global executive of two Fortune 500 companies and one Fortune 1000 company, and she serves as an independent director for two corporations and four not-for-profits. She’s the real deal and we loved getting to talk with her and hear the incredible things they are doing to mentor businesswomen in the marketplace. Tune in to learn about the work she does at 4word and why women mentorship matters…
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Leader development is not a test they need to pass, it’s an investment we need to make. From that standpoint, you can’t fail to lead well and stop there. You can only fail to learn and move forward.
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Mentoring in retirement sounds like a wonderful idea. “Invest in the next generation. Share your life experience. Feel a renewed sense of purpose.” But in reality, far too often mentoring feels awkward for both mentor and mentee. The best mentoring relationships often look more like intergenerational friendship.
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Originally published by Harvard Business Review — Rick Woolworth, a good friend of FDE/FDI, has been a Wall Street executive and mentor for 35 years. He argues “aspiring leaders need more and better mentoring than they’re getting today.”
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Yesterday, our podcast featured Casey Crawford as our guest — an Entrepreneur, Super Bowl winner who leads Movement Mortgage—a Billion dollar business that Inc and several others have recognized. Although they’re known for their business and employee engagement, their community impact is also impressive! Today, we want to highlight some of their resources, specifically their mentoring program.
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Today we’re talking to Casey Crawford. Casey is an Entrepreneur that left the NFL with a Super Bowl Ring and then started a company, Movement Mortgage—a Billion dollar business that Inc and several others have recognized. They’ve been known for their business, their community impact, and their ability to create a company that people want to work for. As Casey shared with us, creating a company is far from a comfortable experience. Entrepreneurs, of course, know what it’s like to be uncomfortable. Yet, there’s something in modern/Western Christianity that expects comfort. We often act as though God has called us to a life of comfort and ease, not one of stress and sacrifice. But as Casey points out, Jesus didn’t exactly live an easy life! And this is just one way he gave us a great perspective alongside a paradigm shift in this podcast episode. Listen in to hear more...
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This article is from our friends at Radical Mentoring — an intentional small group mentoring process to help you engage your men, build your core group of leaders, and transform your church. This post ponders Matthew 9:13 and the meaning of mentoring.
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OCEAN Conference, is a two-day experience at Crossroads Church in Cincinnati, October 10-11th that will help you explore how to be a leader of purpose and passion. It’s a collection of entrepreneurs, business owners, creatives, and more to gain insight, wisdom, and practical tools to equip you along your journey.
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We’ve got a good one for you today. Nathan Sheets is CEO of Nature Nate’s Honey, and he was also involved with I Am Second, and E3, and you’ll hear a bit of all of those stories. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. When we sat down to talk to Nathan, we had no idea how deep he was going to take us. Right away, he opened up about the ups and downs he has gone through with a level of candor that we couldn’t even believe. If you’re looking for what life as an entrepreneur looks like—and we mean, really looks like—Nathan Sheets has a no holds barred take on the entrepreneurial journey.
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We love the team at OCEAN and their commitment to come alongside Faith Driven Entrepreneurs. They recently reached out and asked us to share that their application window for OCEAN Accelerator is open and will accept applications until October 30, 2019. The application is available here.
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