My Story

You might say, I took the mentoring thing to whole other level when I started helping drug addicts. As I led the organization I prayed and asked the Lord how we were going to grow and serve more people. He spoke to my heart and said, "Leadership". That week, I decided I would teach the students at The Barracks about leadership. Then I realized I didn't know how to teach it. That's when I got nervous because If you can't teach a thing, then you have no mastery of it. To make matters worse, I didn't know what I was lacking in, which meant I had no personal leadership awareness. For some reason, I couldn't think of any way to improve, and that's even more dangerous. That meant I had hit a ceiling in my personal leadership development, and I simply did not know what I did not know. I had no trajectory.

I looked all around me and there was nobody willing to (nor anyone in close proximity who had the capacity to) take me under their wing. This was a season of major frustration for me. Because I wanted to become better, but I did not have anyone around me who could take me to the next level. So, I had to reach for it. I made a call to another leader who ran a men's home like mine. I said to myself, "if he has 40 men in his program, then he must have a core leadership team to help minister to those men." I called Mike, "Mike, what do you do to train your leaders?" He said, "We have them all read John C. Maxwell's book, '21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership'."

That was just the tip of the iceberg for me. From that moment on I began a journey of personal development in Leadership, reading book after book, constantly seeking ways to improve my understanding of myself and of leadership. Now, I've made it my goal to empower others in Leadership, whether it be at home, ministry or business. I don't want upcoming leaders to feel alone and forgotten about. That's one of the reasons I started my private Facebook Group "Maximized Leadership", and my Leadership Coaching Program. I continue to develop my nonprofit organization's leadership team and I'm currently developing my Leadership Coaching Program which is in BETA right now. I also offer Live weekly Leadership Calls for my Private "Maximized Leadership" Facebook Group.