Discovering True Leadership Through Adversity

In 2014 half my rear end was removed in an ICU as surgeons raced to save my life. I’m a half-assed survivor. Keeping me alive took more than 20 major surgeries—including a high-risk kidney transplant with my brother as the donor—and 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.

On that day, I discovered that leadership isn’t about what you do. Job titles don’t make leaders. Leadership is about who you are on a daily basis that shows 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 someone simply in a position of authority to a genuine leader who makes an Extraordinary IMPACT.