LIG is committed to empowering Christian marketplace leaders so they can effectively influence their peers and communities with the Gospel message.

You will hear how God is working through leaders in Montreal and other centers. You will also be asked to explore the possibilities before us here in Montreal.

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Refreshments and snacks will be provided.

Contact Information:
Eric Rose     
514.237.6284  ericscottrose@gmail.com
David Smith  
davids@leaderimpactgroup.com
Please contact the person who invited you to confirm your attendance.

NOTE: This is not a fundraising event.

People liked the topic and David’s personality…I know he received many business cards. I was very proud of Mario who is one of our newer group members as he shared up front about his involvement.

Here is an email I just received from another one of the new group members who is a non Christian:

“WOW Tibi & Ian, great speaker we had. Really liked David’s talk – excellent choice. Mario, you were incredible. Did you like rehearse that or what? Great answers to those questions. You did as good a job as David – well done! It could not have been said better.”

The result is that we have 7 new people who are interested in joining a DG! We also collected 10 new email addresses for future events.
Thank You for your prayers during the follow up!

Learn more about Leadership Forums and how you can be part of the next one in your area.

At one table several were recruited to join an existing Discovery Group by enthusiastic group members even before the comment cards were passed around.  Existing groups have incorporated several of those indicating interest in a DG and one new DG will be formed.  Kudos to Jim Ginther and Ian Whitfield for giving us such great speakers!
Check out other Leadership Forums that are coming up in your area.

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photos courtesy of Boehmer Photography

Jeff Lehrmann is President of Chevron Canada Limited, an upstream oil and gas company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. Raised on a central Texas farm, Jeff began his career with Texaco as an engineer in California.  He went on to serve in a variety of engineering and management positions with the company in various upstream operations across North America and Indonesia. He joined Chevron in 2005 and quickly moved up the ranks to his current position in 2010.

A dedicated husband and father to four children, Jeff serves his community through his involvement with Calgary Reads and as a member of the Foothills Lutheran Church in Calgary.

Join us for breakfast with Jeff Lehrmann as he shares insights from his leadership experience and how we too can become better leaders in “Everything Rises and Falls on Leadership”.

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Contact Info:
Tibor ‘Tibi’ Ribi
403.589.2727
tibir@leaderimpactgroup.com

Come and join us for a special breakfast with John van Leeuwen. John is freeing us from petroleum. As co-founder, Chairman & CEO of Ecosynthetix Inc. he oversees operations which produces biomaterials to replace petroleum-based materials in a variety of industrial applications. Prior to Ecosynthetix, John started a number of different businesses with a wide variety of technologies, including software company Baan’s North American division, which he took public on NASDAQ in 1995.

John is a visionary who believes that what he is doing can make a difference in the world. His faith in God has given him a greater purpose and meaning in life, and drives his desire to leave a legacy and a brighter future for generations to come. Join us as John shares his experiences and vision in “Building a Brighter Future”.

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Contact Info:
David Smith
davids@leaderimpactgroup.com

Come and join us for a special luncheon with Paul Ferris. As President of Ferris + Associates Inc., Paul is an established Landscape Architect with over twenty-five years in the industry. He has developed a reputation for providing innovative design solutions that have helped shape many of Toronto’s best landscape designs, as well as international projects in China, Dubai and other areas of the Middle East. His award winning designs encompass residential, commercial, and institutional spaces. Paul is also a Director of the Ron Ellis Team Canada Foundation and an inaugural member of the City of Toronto Design Review Panel.

Paul believes that diversity is the key to survival, both in business and in life. Hear how his passion for hockey led him to an encounter with a hockey legend and started his journey to discover how relevant faith in God is to his daily life.

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Contact Info:
Glen Letnes
773.3158 ext. 250
Glen.Letnes@td.com
Or
Jim Ginther
773.5204
jimg@leaderimpactgroup.com

Several years ago Michael Vick, NFL quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons, was arrested and sentenced to several years in prison for his part in a Dog Fighting ring. With his arrest and subsequent jail time he left the Atlanta Falcons in a bad place. It was bad enough that their all-star Quarterback was no longer with them but before he left he assured the owner of the Falcons that he didn’t do anything. Needless to say this breach of trust and contract made it harder for Vick to return to the NFL. He eventually found a spot with the Philadelphia Eagles thanks to his longtime friend Donovan McNabb.

In spite of his constant critics Vick focused on playing ball and he did it well. During the game however I noticed something about leadership. Have you ever thought about leadership stats – in this case, football stats? As announcers were talking about his pass rating he threw a perfect pass to one of his receivers that would have placed them near the goal line. The pass was everything it needed to be but the receiver didn’t catch it. When I saw this I started thinking, “Vick is the leader. He can do what he needs to do but if his guys don’t do what they are supposed to do whose stats are affected?” In this case it’s Vick’s. Sure the team is affected, and the receiver can’t add the yards he would have had to his game total but the truth is Vick’s rating is affected even though he didn’t do anything wrong. What a great picture of leadership.

I’m currently a business leader in my community, but I also have a sports background and love to watch a good game when I can. I am also very interested in the stories behind the games and leaders. I watched a biography on Vince Lombardi, a coach in the NFL, and there were several points in the movie that inspired me. One of them was when Lombardi moved to Green Bay to take on his first Head coaching job in the NFL. All he wanted to do was lead a football team and this was his chance. Needless to say his first shot at leadership was not going to be an easy one (being under a microscope never is). Where I was inspired, was after hearing an interview with the then Quarterback of the Green Bay Packers talk about Lombardi’s first meeting with the team. The team was all gathered in the room waiting to hear from their head coach. At this point the team was probably comfortable with mediocrity; they had consistently been at the bottom of the league and were probably expecting the new coach to embrace them as they were. Here’s the first thing the coach said to his team: “Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly pursue perfection, knowing full well that we will not catch it. We are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we catch excellence. I am not the least bit interested in just being good.”

The Packers began a hard work regiment. Lombardi was quoted as saying “Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile”. And the hard effort paid off. The year before Lombardi took over the Packers lost every game but 2 (1 loss and 1 tie). After his first year they had a winning season. They eventually went on to win 3 championships in a row, something that had never been done before. They also won the first two Super Bowls ever put on.

The price of greatness is responsibility. Leadership is an amazing thing. As a leader you are dependent on the people you lead, and if they screw up, you are the one that’s affected long term. Coaches are fired all the time. Passes are dropped and your pass rating goes down. In response to this idea my friend said, “but leadership gets all the rewards”. And that is true. Sure Vick throws a perfect pass to someone on his team and they drop it, but who remembers the guy that dropped it, or even the dropped pass? Who’s the one with all the notoriety? Who gets on prime time TV, and who wins the awards and sponsorships? VICK.

As Christians we are all leaders. We are called to go out and share the gospel. I suspect that the same qualities and characteristics that make us great leaders in our professional fields will also make us great leaders (fishers) of men, leaders in our communities and leaders in our faith sharing. Be humble, know when to stop doing what you think is right and seek what is right for the ones you lead. Stay focused and strive after perfection because in that you’ll find excellence (in the Christian perspective I would apply this to your character). Show grace and don’t be afraid to give someone a second chance (no matter how unpopular the choice might be) as you might have another Vick on your hands. Work hard, be an example and though the responsibility is sometimes overwhelming, the rewards will be great!

So go! LEAD! Change lives and the world. I’ll leave you with a few quotes from Vince Lombardi.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

If you can accept losing, you can’t win.

Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.

Evan Drisner wears many hats. As a local Business Leader in his community, an Ordained Minister with the PAOC, Music Director at his Church, Father to two young boys and Husband to an amazing wife his life is in constant motion. He has a passion for music (Pearl Jam and the Beatles), his family, the lake and people in general.

©2012 Used by Permission. Excerpt taken from http://mypresenttense.wordpress.com/

John is a visionary who believes that what he is doing can make a difference in the world. His faith in God has given him a greater purpose and meaning in life, and drives his desire to leave a legacy and a brighter future for generations to come. John shares his experiences and vision in “Building a Brighter Future”.

Come and join us for a special luncheon with Paul Ferris. As President of Ferris + Associates Inc., Paul is an established Landscape Architect with over twenty-five years in the industry. He has developed a reputation for providing innovative design solutions that have helped shape many of Toronto’s best landscape designs, as well as international projects in China, Dubai and other areas of the Middle East. His award winning designs encompass residential, commercial, and institutional spaces. Paul is also a Director of the Ron Ellis Team Canada Foundation and an inaugural member of the City of Toronto Design Review Panel.

Paul believes that diversity is the key to survival, both in business and in life. Hear how his passion for hockey led him to an encounter with a hockey legend and started his journey to discover how relevant faith in God is to his daily life.

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Contact Info:
Willie Unger
306.652.5005 ext. 224
willieu@comcocontrols.com

A positive self-concept, clear goals, hard work, and a willingness to take risks … all contribute to success. But there is a major obstacle to experiencing success and satisfaction in life.

In 1923 a very important meeting was held at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago. Attending this meeting were seven of the world’s most successful financiers-people who had found the secret of making money.

Consider what had happened to these men 25 years later. The president of the largest independent steel company, Charles Schwab, died in bankruptcy and lived on borrowed money for five years before his death. The president of the greatest utility company, Samuel Insull, died a fugitive from justice and broke in a foreign land. The president of the New York Stock Exchange, Richard Whitney, spent time in Sing Sing Penitentiary. A member of the President’s cabinet, Albert Fall, was pardoned so he could die at home. The greatest “bear” on Wall Street, Jesse Livermore, died a suicide. The head of the greatest monopoly, Ivan Krueger, died a suicide. The president of the Bank of International Settlements, Leon Fraser, died a suicide. All these had learned well, the art of success in making a living, but apparently they all struggled with learning how to live successfully.

Pollster and social commentator Daniel Yankelovich quotes a $100,000/ year full partner in a public relations firm: “I have achieved success by the definition of others but am not fulfilled. I appear successful … I have published, lectured, exceeded my income goals, achieved ownership and a lot of people depend on me. So, I’ve adequately achieved the external goals but they are empty.”

Successful and Satisfied

More and more psychologists and psychiatrists are seeing the need to develop the total person physically, psychologically, and spiritually–to produce real satisfaction. Often in our struggle for success, we focus on physical and psychological development at the expense of the spiritual.

Not long ago a group of counselors spent quite a bit of time in New York City interviewing some of the nation’s most successful executives. They interacted with editors of newspapers and magazines, executives with advertising agencies, banks, the TV networks, seeking to understand these leaders’ ideas about success.

One question these counselors asked involved the spiritual area: “What place do faith and spiritual values have in your fife?” In response, 75% conveyed that spiritual values were “important” or “very important” to both personal and professional development. Remarked one, “If they could be strengthened, a lot of these other things would fall into place.” Yet, surprisingly few of these leaders had clearly defined convictions in the spiritual area. As one radio broadcaster noted with a smile, “I am inspirable, but I can’t find anyone to inspire me!”

Then these executives were told about someone who could inspire them, one of history’s most influential personalities, a person who stressed the importance of spiritual development as well as the physical and psychological. The life and teachings of this influential and very successful leader have made quite a positive impact on my own life, as well.

There are many examples of Christians who are both successful and satisfied: Roger Staubach, former quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys; Julius Erving, star professional basketball player; J. C. Penney, founder of the department store chain; Dr. Charles Malik, past president of the UN General Assembly: Mark Hatfield, U. S. Senator from Oregon; Janet Lynn, a figure skater; Jerome Hines, Amy Grant, Pat Boone and Debby Boone as entertainers: and many more. Being a Christian doesn’t guarantee supreme success. Christians have their failures, too. But a relationship with God can enhance your self-concept, help clarify your goals, strengthen your determination and help you improve whatever you do. The personal satisfaction Christ provides can make a positive difference, too.

“What a tragedy to … climb the ladder
of success, only to reach the top
and find the ladder leaning against the wrong wall.”

What about you? Does your definition of success include personal satisfaction? Have you found success? Will your success be enough to sustain you through any rough times that may lie ahead? Have you found personal satisfaction?

What a tragedy it would be to spend an entire lifetime climbing the ladder of success only to reach the top and find the ladder was leaning against the wrong wall. Are you willing to consider how Jesus Christ can make a difference in your life?

To discover how you can have a relationship with God, attend a Leadership Forum in your area, join a Discovery Group, or contact us.

(Used by permission) Rusty Wright is an author and lecturer who has spoken on six continents. He holds Bachelor of Science (psychology) and Master of Theology degrees from Duke and Oxford universities, respectively.