About Your L2L Host
Where does a coach belong? Should they be ahead of you, clearing the path for you, or behind you, cheering you on? Actually, it’s neither. The coach’s place is by your side, helping you find your footing each step of the way.
Hi, I’m Jonathan Summers, a John Maxwell Team certified coach, speaker, trainer, and teacher, and founder of the Sage Leadership Academy. For the past 17 years, I have helped aspiring young adults shift from their daily struggles and survival mode to become strategic at living the life that they desire.
Speaker Bios
John C. Maxwell is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, coach, and speaker who has sold more than 30 million books in fifty languages. He has been identified as the #1 leader in business by the American Management Association® and the most influential leadership expert in the world by Business Insider and Inc. magazine. He is the founder of The John Maxwell Company, The John Maxwell Team, EQUIP, and the John Maxwell Leadership Foundation, organizations that have trained millions of leaders from every country of the world. A recipient of the Horatio Alger Award, as well as the Mother Teresa Prize for Global Peace and Leadership from the Luminary Leadership Network, Dr. Maxwell speaks each year to Fortune 500 companies, presidents of nations, and many of the world’s top business leaders. He can be followed at Twitter.com/JohnCMaxwell. For more information about him visit JohnMaxwell.com.
Patrick Lencioni is founder and president of The Table Group, a firm dedicated to providing organizations with ideas, products and services that improve teamwork, clarity and employee engagement. He is the author of twelve best-selling books with nearly seven million copies sold. After 18 years in print, his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, remains a fixture on national best-seller lists. His more recent book is The Motive: Why So Many Leaders Abdicate Their Most Important Responsibilities.
Eric Thomas, Ph.D., is a critically acclaimed author, World-renowned speaker, educator, pastor, and audible.com Audie Awards Finalist. ET, as he is better known, has taken the world by storm, with his creative, common-sense approach to living a successful, satisfying professional and personal life. Through a significant social media presence and regular domestic and international tours, “ET, The Hip Hop Preacher” has become a global phenomenon!
Dr. Tim Elmore is the founder and CEO of Growing Leaders. His work grew out of 20 years of serving alongside Dr. John C. Maxwell. Over the years, he has shared his insights in more than 40 countries, from India and Russia to China and Australia.
Elmore is the founder and CEO of Growing Leaders, an Atlanta-based, non-profit organization created to develop emerging leaders. Through Growing Leaders, Elmore and his team provide public schools, state universities and corporations with the tools they need to help develop young leaders who can impact and transform society.
Doris Kearns Goodwin is a presidential historian, international keynote speaker, Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times #1 best-selling author and a partner in Pastimes Productions. She’s authored seven critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling books, including the Carnegie Medal winner “The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism,” which is in part the basis for a film being developed about Ida Tarbell, the famous muckraking journalist of the era.
