Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit 2017

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

If you missed the 2017 Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit, then you missed some great content, great speakers, and incredible ideas that have the potential to shift your thinking when it comes to leadership. But no worries! Now you’ve got all the notes to every session right here at your fingertips for free! Hope you enjoy!

Bill Hybels

Willow Creek Community Church Founder and Senior Pastor Bill Hybels opened the Summit addressing The Challenge of Leading an Organization in an Era of Divisiveness and Disrespect.

Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg is the chief operating officer at Facebook, overseeing the company’s business operations. Prior to Facebook, she was vice president of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google and Chief of Staff for the United States Treasury Department. Sandberg is the best-selling author of Lean In. Her 2017 release, Option B, is an inspiring and practical book about finding resilience and moving forward after life’s inevitable setbacks.

Marcus Lemonis

With many ventures on his resume, including the hit TV show, The Profit, Marcus Lemonis has invested$40 million of his own money into helping small businesses. Additionally, he is the CEO of America’s #1 source for RV’s and the largest organization of R owners in the world. Lemonis lends his expertise to other entrepreneurs using his evaluation system of three keys for business health and success; people, process and product.

Fredrik Haren

Fredrik Haren is a business creativity expert who has authored nine books, including The idea Book – credited as on of “The 100 Best Business Books of All Time.” He is a global speaker who has been invited to speak to leaders in more than 60 countries on six continents on the importance of creativity in solving problems. Recognizing how challenging this is, Haren provides practical steps to help individuals and organizations become more creative.

Bryan Stevenson

Bryan Stevenson, a highly acclaimed activist and lawyer, has dedicated his career to helping the poor, the incarcerated and the condemned through his leadership of the Equal Justice Initiative. he has successfully argued several cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, and his TED Talk has more than three million views. The best-selling author of Just Mercy, Stevenson was named to Fortune’s “2016 World’s Greatest Leaders” list.

Andy Stanley

Andy Stanley founded North Point Ministries (NPM) more than 20 years ago. Today, NPM is comprised of six churches in the Atlanta area and a network of 30 churches around the globe, collectively serving nearly 70,000 people weekly. Recently, Outreach Magazine identified Stanley as one of the “Top 10 Most Influential Pastors in America.” The author of more than 20 books, he is passionate about serving both church and organizational leaders.

Laszlo Bock

Laszlo Bock served as Google’s Senior Vice President of People Operations, growing the company from 6,000 to more than 75,000 employees. Google has been recognized more than 150 times as an exceptional employer, including the #1 “Best Company to Work for in the United States” every year since 2012. Bock’s New York Times best-selling book, WORK RULES!, has been published in more than 20 languages and has garnered numerous honors.

Juliet Funt

Juliet Funt, a globally-recognized consultant and speaker, founded WhiteSpace at Work with the mission to unearth the potential of companies by unburdening their talent from busywork. She and her company help high-achieving teams execute better within the “Age of Overload” through light and enjoyable micro-learning digital courses. Teams that incorporate WhiteSpace mindsets and skill-sets increase productivity and engagement, reclaim lost capacity and execute at their finest.

Marcus Buckingham

Marcus Buckingham, world’s leading authority on strengths, performance and engagement, founded The Marcus Buckingham Company following 30 years at Gallup. He is the best-selling author of multiple books, including Now, Discover Your Strengths. A Summit favorite, Buckingham will challenge everyone to rethink the vital leadership function of performance management – based on his latest multi-year research, recently featured in Harvard Business Review.

Sam Adeyemi

Under Sam Adeyemi’s leadership, Daystar Christian Centre grew from a handful of people to more than 25,000 people weekly – with highly recognized community impact projects. The author of numerous best-selling books, his television programs reach viewers on all continents. Adeyemi founded Daystar Leadership Academy, which is dedicated to releasing a new generation of leaders who will serve as catalysts in the transformation of Africa and the world.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

Immaculee Ilibagiza is a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide that took the lives of nearly one million Tutsi, including her entire family except for one brother. She survived by huddling silently with seven other women in a 3-by-4 foot bathroom for 91 days. Despite unimaginable suffering, she committed herself to a life of peace, hope and forgiveness. Ilibagiza works with the United Nations and is the best-selling author of Left to Tell.

Angela Duckworth

Angela Duckworth is a professor of psychology at University of Pennsylvania and founder of Character Lab, a nonprofit whose mission is to advance the practice of character development. An advisor to the White House, the World Bank and Fortune 500 CEO’s, Duckworth studies grit and self-control, two attributes critical to success and well-being. Her first book, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, debuted in 2016 as a New York Times bestseller.

Gary Haugen

Gary Haugen leads International Justice Mission (IJM), a world-wide agency rescuing victims of violence, exploitation, slavery and oppression. Recognized by the U.S. State Department as a Trafficking in Persons “Hero” – the highest honor given by the U.S. government for anti-slavery leadership – Haugen is the author of three books and has been featured in Foreign Affairs, The New York Times and Forbes.

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Leadership Summit 2017: Gary Haugen

Friday, August 18, 2017

Gary Haugen leads International Justice Mission (IJM), a world-wide agency rescuing victims of violence, exploitation, slavery and oppression. Recognized by the U.S. State Department as a Trafficking in Persons “Hero” – the highest honor given by the U.S. government for anti-slavery leadership – Haugen is the author of three books and has been featured in Foreign Affairs, The New York Times and Forbes.

There is one thing that stands between what you learn and what you do. And that one thing is fear.
All of the finest leadership training in the world can be rendered useless by fear.
That’s why on his last night with His disciples Jesus tells them not to be afraid.
Fear is the silent destroyer of dreams
Leadership begins with a dream
Fear destroys the love that inspires the dream and replaces it with a preoccupation with self
We are most likely to not know what scares us the most deeply
Being brave is hard
You must relentlessly inventory your own fears…what are you really afraid of?
Switch from playing defense to playing offense. No great dream was built on the fear of what might go wrong
If we are more impressed with bad men than a good God then fear is going to eat your leadership for lunch
You cannot move towards a dream of love while retreating to a bunker of fear
Hell is playing defense not the kingdom of God
46million people on the planet are in slavery today. More people than at any point in the history of the planet.
Great leaders forge a community of courage around them
Lone rangers do not make great dreams come true ever, lone rangers make movies
If anyone was entitled to adopt a lone ranger leadership model it was Jesus…but what did He do? He forged a community of courage around him.
Courage, like fear, is contagious
Remember that we are only servants on the battlefield and that the real soldier is Christ Himself.

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Leadership Summit 2017: Angela Duckworth

Thursday, August 17, 2017

Angela Duckworth is a professor of psychology at University of Pennsylvania and founder of Character Lab, a nonprofit whose mission is to advance the practice of character development. An advisor to the White House, the World Bank and Fortune 500 CEO’s, Duckworth studies grit and self-control, two attributes critical to success and well-being. Her first book, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, debuted in 2016 as a New York Times bestseller.

All people are ambitious. People like to be good at what they do and when given a choice they would like to be excellent.

What do high performers have in common?

#1 They are hard workers
#2 They finish whatever they begin
#3 They have difficulty maintaining their focus on projects that take more than a few months to complete
#4 They change their interests from year to year

The maturity principle: with age and experience qualities and character like grit get better
Grit can change with culture and experience
We can build grit
There is a huge distinction between talent and effort
It takes passion and perseverance
Grit = Sustained passion and perseverance for especially long term goal
Talent x effort = skill
Skill x effort = achievement
You can say of talented people that they were born to do something, but you can’t say they were born doing something
It takes deliberate practice to become excellent
Most people live a life of arrested development…they plateau
Many people even drop out and quit
World class excellence…what is deliberate practice?
It beings with setting a goal
They focus 100% on it
They get feedback and coaching (you can’t get better at anything without feedback)
Reflect and refine
Why doesn’t everyone do these things? Why don’t more people do more deliberate practice? It’s not that much fun.
Everyone has to drop out of something at some point to pursue other opportunities and goals
Grit and happiness go hand in hand…people who have grit are usually content with their life as well

How to build Grit:

#1 Develop your interests before training your weaknesses
#2 Know the science of deliberate practice…can I do a little more deliberate practice
#3 Cultivate purpose beyond yourself
#4 Adopt a growth mindset

Somebody in your life needs to love you so much that they’ll let you quit on a good day but not on a bad day

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Leadership Summit 2017: Immaculee Ilibagiza

Thursday, August 17, 2017

Immaculee Ilibagiza is a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide that took the lives of nearly one million Tutsi, including her entire family except for one brother. She survived by huddling silently with seven other women in a 3-by-4 foot bathroom for 91 days. Despite unimaginable suffering, she committed herself to a life of peace, hope and forgiveness. Ilibagiza works with the United Nations and is the best-selling author of Left to Tell.

I learned to forgive, but more importantly I learned the joy of forgiveness and that forgiveness is possible in every situation
To know without a shadow of a doubt that God is real and that when you can’t He can
And whatever God tells you, He’s right
The genocide happened because we failed to love one another
I can’t change other people but I can change myself
When things get bad…they can get worse
Complaining doesn’t help things get any better
In times of crisis you will hear all kinds of voices and you will have to choose the right voice to listen to

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Leadership Summit 2017: Sam Adeyemi

Thursday, August 17, 2017

Under Sam Adeyemi’s leadership, Daystar Christian Centre grew from a handful of people to more than 25,000 people weekly – with highly recognized community impact projects. The author of numerous best-selling books, his television programs reach viewers on all continents. Adeyemi founded Daystar Leadership Academy, which is dedicated to releasing a new generation of leaders who will serve as catalysts in the transformation of Africa and the world.

In leadership you don’t attract what you want you attract what you are
The leadership dynamic works when there is alignment between the sense of identity of the leader and that of the followers
If a group of robbers had the chance to elect a police man would they? No. They would elect a more sophisticated and better robber.
Leadership is about helping people move from robbers to policemen, helping people become someone they have never been before.
Unleashing the potential of followers, especially those who seem less than ideal is the miracle of leadership.
The transformation that will show up in your people’s lives is directly connected to your leadership.
Real and sustainable change in someone’s’ life begins when there is a change in their sense of identity
One of the greatest gifts you can give someone is a new belief in who they are and could be
Sometimes what you are used to is not what you belong to
What you believe is where you belong
The heart of the matter is a matter of the heart
Most people are sabotaged by self-limiting beliefs
Changing people from the inside out is truly transformational
Jesus – See with their eyes, hear with their ears and understand in their hearts they will turn and I will heal them…
Whatever people SEE and HEAR over time will enter their HEARTS and put their lives on autopilot

To change your followers from the inside out you need to change what they see and hear

#1 Describe your vision for the organization over and over again

vision = the ability to see people, places and things not just the way they are but the way they could be
The language you use to describe people matters infinitely
It’s not because the leader is special that the followers are there…it’s because the followers are special that the leader is there

#2 Set up a structured training system

Is your training system built to develop the ideal leader for your organization?
Training creates consistency in knowledge and skills across the organization

#3 Model transformation. People try to reach a standard they can see

follow me as I follow Jesus

#4 Reinvent yourself over and over. You die at one level to evolve to another

To be someone you’ve never been means you need to let go of what you’ve done in the past, which means you are going to have to get past your insecurities.
Many leaders are stranded at one level of success because their capacity has been blunted by their own success.
No one should be around you for a year or longer without transformation in their lives.
You can do more than you are doing right now.

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