Ignite Growth & Development

08/31/2026

Here is one idea: Choose one behavior you want to contribute to every environment you’re in.

Maybe it’s encouragement. Listening. Accountability. Positivity. Curiosity.

Culture can feel like this enormous concept, but each person contributes to it through small repeated behaviors.

08/29/2026

Couldn’t agree more! What are some of the inspiring books you have read lately?

Jim Rohn was mentored by Earl Shoaff. That relationship changed his life. But Rohn was also mentored by dozens of people he never met.

He was mentored by the authors whose books he kept on his shelf. By the philosophers he studied. By the historical figures whose biographies he read and reread. By the speakers whose recordings he listened to in his car.

Rohn called these "distant teachers" — and he believed they were among the most powerful mentors available to anyone.

The beauty of a book, Rohn taught, is that it gives you access to decades of someone's thinking in just a few hours. A biography lets you walk alongside a great life without being born in the right era or the right city. A recording lets you sit at the feet of a master teacher from the comfort of your living room.

This article explores Rohn's philosophy on finding mentors you'll never meet — and why your library might be the most important investment in your growth.

The article link is in the first comment.

What book has mentored you more than most people in your life?

08/28/2026

One of the areas I want Ignite Growth and Development to help organizations uncover is the gap between the culture a company says it has and the culture employees actually experience.

Most organizations have values, a mission, and a vision. But culture is revealed in the everyday behaviors underneath those words, how people communicate, what leaders reinforce, what gets tolerated, how accountability is handled, and what employees learn is truly important.

The goal isn’t to criticize the culture. It’s to create awareness.

Because once an organization can see where its stated culture and lived culture are out of alignment, it can begin intentionally closing that gap.

08/26/2026

Question: What culture do you go into everyday?

September 19th: This interactive leadership workshop explores how culture is created, strengthened, and sometimes unintentionally allowed to drift out of alignment. Participants will examine the influence leaders have on their environment, the behaviors and patterns that shape culture over time, and the importance of aligning leadership, individuals, systems, values, and everyday habits around a shared direction. Through reflection, discussion, and practical application, leaders will leave better equipped to recognize cultural gaps, intentionally influence the environment around them, and take practical steps toward creating a culture where people and purpose move in the same direction. Sign up using the link below to share in the experience!

https://forms.gle/hYgSCN6ZxUJST2Sc7

08/24/2026

Build your thoughts around the idea that culture starts small. Our attitude, language, energy, and standards contribute to every environment we’re part of.

08/21/2026

Look around your organization and ask, “What behaviors have become normal here that we never intentionally chose?”

That could be communication, lateness, negativity, lack of accountability or something positive like encouragement and ownership.

08/17/2026

We adapt to what surrounds us. Standards, attitudes, effort, and even what we believe is possible can be shaped by the environments we spend the most time in.

08/05/2026

Here we are over half why through the series! And going strong my hope is that everyone has gotten something from these workshop! So far we have talked about finding your direction! The importance of self awareness, and the mindset to move forward. Now let’s see what happens when we bring those 3 power houses together! With the second half of the series where we build on CULTURE, CRISIS, and TEAM WORK. sign ups are open I hope to see you all on September 19th!!!! Until then………

If you have attended the series, Share an AHA or insight you have taken away from one of the sessions.
Register here: https://forms.gle/kcTKDTDomaohoJow9