A Climb to the Top

If you want people to accept your leadership and be your followers, it is a voluntary decision made in the hearts, minds, and souls of the people that follow you. That’s why it is important for leaders to earn credibility, trust, and respect from the ones they lead. The best leaders in the world know how to work with people. Suri Surinder speaks of leadership as a science; it’s replicable, measurable, and always improvable. This is Suri’s Story of Transformation.

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Our lives don’t always follow the paths we intend them to, but sometimes that works out for the better. Before Joe Bourdow became the president of a major company, he was a radio broadcaster with a teaching degree in history. Because of these foundational skills, he was able to find success in his new position as a leader. This is Joe’s Story of Transformation.

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Anyone who has achieved any success has encountered the word “no.” Even those who have had the biggest impacts on us—the contrarians, the trailblazers—are accustomed to hearing “no” time and again. These contrarians are the visionaries that are as likely to be called crazy as brilliant; they behave contrary to conventional wisdom, and never take the path of least resistance. Spencer Proffer is one of them. This is his Story of Transformation, Part 2.

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Society has this tremendous false expectation about the need to be perfect, the need to get it all right. Everyone wants to be successful, but Jeff Wald knows that in order to achieve that, you have to be willing to make mistakes. No matter how many times you get knocked down, you have to have the willpower to get yourself back up again, because success means going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. This is Jeff Wald’s Story of Transformation. 

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Learning to be a leader is not easy; sometimes leadership comes through failure, public rebuke, and even outright humiliation. This was an eye-opening lesson that Scott Miller had to learn. He realized that the leader’s job is not to be the smartest person in the room, but the maker of them. This is Scott Miller’s Story of Transformation.

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Growing up and working in a small town where the economy was based around the hospitality industry, Jed Ayres learned lessons in leadership that would translate into the technology industry later in life. These lessons became core values as Jed stepped into his role as a leader; ultimately it is about serving people and doing that from a good place. This is Jed Ayres’ Story of Transformation.

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“The greatest distance in the world is just 14 inches, from the mind to the heart. It’s most difficult to decide whether to go with the heart or mind.” Everyone’s journey ultimately leads them to a fork in the road, forcing us to choose between what we think and what we feel. Bri Smith was faced with that challenge upon college graduation and, unable to shake her true passion, summoned the courage to follow her heart. Rather than surrender to the comforts of a steady job and financial security, she chose to pursue what she truly desired despite the uncertainty. This is Bri Smith’s Story of Transformation.

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If you’ve ever felt the physical pain of heartbreak, then you understand the power that our minds have over our bodies. Negative emotions can often manifest themselves as physical suffering. After months of searching for answers, Alyssa DiLeo had to accept the reality that the debilitating pain she was in could not be healed by doctors’ prescriptions. Taking her health into her own hands, she began conquering her pain by healing her mind. This is Alyssa DiLeo’s Story of Transformation.

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Change does not require your skillsets, it requires your perseverance. Knowing that you walk many different paths, it is the courage to change paths when you don’t like the one you are on that is most important. Embrace failure at every turn. Fail forward, fail fast. Persevere. This is Nick Chapman’s Story of Transformation.

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We are constantly surrounded by opportunities to create change in our lives. Often disguised as the mundane, sometimes the best opportunities for transformation are the most overlooked. Every day, that choice is yours. An hour commute to work every day may seem tedious, but for David Patneaude, it became his key to a more fulfilling career and a happier life. From the back of the bus with a pen in one hand and a pad in the other, a change began. This is David’s Story of Transformation. 

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