When you get right down to it, leadership is making decisions. The way we show up every day, our effort, energy, and attitude – in other words, our CHOICES – are the real indicators of leadership.

Emerson said, “What you DO screams so loudly I can’t hear a word you’re saying.” He was speaking about real leadership. Each of us is the CEO of our own life. That’s why as a leadership speaker I focus on the core choices that reveal the true leader inside each of us.

Breakthrough Leadership consists of five key elements:

  • Shape the future. This is about your VISION and understanding that what you focus on is what you create! All breakthroughs begin with a new vision.
  • Energize and Engage. To everyone we touch, our energy is our example. People will remember very little of what we say, no matter how well we say it. But they’ll never forget our energy. As you elevate your energy you elevate your leadership.
  • Build people and build teams through recognition, acknowledgement, and most of all, appreciation. This element is all about relationships and combines with each of the first two elements to truly impact those around you. As you use your vision to look for peoples’ strengths, to catch them doing things right, you ignite and create more of that behavior. By energizing and engaging first yourself, and then those around you, you help them elevate their OWN energy and engagement. And so begins a tremendous upward spiral.
  • Deliver extraordinary results. Breakthrough leadership elevates the team to generate results they’ve never achieved before. That is the essence of the breakthrough. Every one of the over 1,300 clients I’ve spoken for wants the same thing – truly extraordinary results. They want to go to the next level…to breakthrough from good to great. Extraordinary results come from shaping the future (creating a new vision), from energizing and engaging yourself and the team, and from building people and building teams.
  • Model personal excellence, integrity, personal responsibility, and humility! This final element of breakthrough leadership moves beyond your reputation to your true character. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation for your character is who you ARE, your reputation only what others think you are. And, if you stay focused on your character it will BECOME your reputation.

As America’s Breakthrough Coach my passion as a leadership speaker is to help everyone see clearly that they ARE leaders and that by living these five breakthrough leadership principles they will not only achieve remarkable things, they will have passion, happiness, and fulfillment every step of the way!