Removing the Shackles

After a long career as a public school teacher, Denise Watts-Wilson retired. “I knew life after retirement would include something productive, but at the time my vision was very small.” Intent on uncovering a new purpose, she began investing in her personal growth. After devotedly watching John Maxwell’s free Minute With Maxwell videos, she immediately…

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The Leading Edge: Your Leadership Stories

By Mitch Tublin, a certified John Maxwell Team coach, speaker, and trainer. Many often wonder how it is possible for everyone to be a leader. After all, if everyone is a leader and a leader needs followers, then who are the followers? Everyone leads and follows at the same time! For example, consider the captain…

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The Fear of Change

For over three decades, Lonnetta Albright taught transformation and growth to others. With a talent for simplifying complex ideas and empowering others to embrace change, she was nearing a crossroads in her life. “I was at a point of wanting to start the next chapter in my life.” Wanting to retire, Lonnetta worried about losing…

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The Leading Edge: Leadership is Connection

By Amy Malay, a certified John Maxwell Team coach, speaker, and trainer. When I was almost 19, I became a big sister for the fourth time. Within a few minutes of my baby sister’s birth, the doctors and nurses and my parents realized that Rachael had a little something extra: an extra chromosome on her…

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The Leading Edge:
5 Qualities to Be a Leader They Can Follow

By Dr. Andrea Bowens-Jones, a certified John Maxwell Team coach, speaker, and trainer. A few years back, my husband turned his passion for basketball into an opportunity to coach a high school girls’ basketball team. Although he had the practical knowledge and mechanics of the game, the skeptical group of girls didn’t automatically follow him.…

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Making a Difference

In 2012, Jan Robberts was invited to participate in a Mastermind Group focused on John Maxwell’s 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth. A perpetual student of growth, Jan was moved by John’s message and when he heard about the John Maxwell Team, he signed up without hesitation. At his first International Maxwell Certification Event in February…

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The Leading Edge:
Executive Coaching: A Clear Perspective

By Velma Knowles, a certified John Maxwell Team coach, speaker, and trainer. Remember the hit song, I Can See Clearly Now by Johnny Nash? One of the many benefits of having an executive coach is you have someone who can help you to see things from a fresh, clear perspective. Up until now, I never really…

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Finding the Courage to Grow

After 28 years in the field of technology, corporate life was starting to wane on Louise Elliott. With a passion for serving others, she dreamed of a career where she could help others to apply the lessons she’d learned to tap into their potential. As a single parent, changing careers felt risky. She found that…

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The Leading Edge: Coaching Is Not Just About Sports

By Karen Aloy, a certified John Maxwell Team coach, speaker, and trainer. Historically, coaching was understood as a sports-oriented career. If you Google “great coaches”, names like Vince Lombardi, John Wooden, Phil Jackson, and Tom Landry appear. I’ve always believed that a coach knew more than any student they were training and they probably knew…

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