In 2014 half my rear end was removed in an ICU while surgeons raced to save my life. I’m a half-assed survivor. Saving my life took more than 20 major surgeries, including a high-risk kidney transplant, at 7 hospitals in 4 states spanning the North American continent.
I was on a cross country business trip in the middle of an ice storm when the Ford F250 I was driving slid on the highway. Two young women staff members looked to me for leadership. After rapidly evacuating them first, an 18-wheeler truck going 65mph hit my body. I wasn’t in a vehicle when it hit me. The impact launched me 90 feet through the air and left me impaled, on a guardrail.
My 30-year career in the entertainment industry was over.
I discovered that leadership isn’t about what you do. Job titles don’t make leaders. Leadership is about who you are, in choices practiced daily, that show up when you confront adversity.
Today I teach 4 specific actions that, when taken consistently in all things big and small, will catapult you from surviving to service, and toughing it out to triumph.
I show how these 4 actions will enable you to leverage adversity and transform you from simply someone in a position of authority to a genuine leader who makes an Extraordinary IMPACT.