Episode Description: If success looks good to the world but doesn't feel good in your heart, is it a success? God is talking to us all the time! This week on True North Leader, Tonya Telesco shares about hearing God's voice and LISTENING even when He tells us to walk away from a "good opportunity." Host Bobby Albert wrote the book "Outward Success Is An Inside Job," and Tonya walks Continue →
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Fall Forward When Things Go Wrong with Brig Sorber
Episode Description: When challenges or bad things happen in business, what do you do? What's next when you're at peak success, and it didn't bring the fulfillment you expected? Today's guest Brig Sorber bought a truck for $200 and ended up building a franchise that sold to a publicly-traded company! I bet you've heard of Two Men and A Truck. Tune in for the peaks and Continue →
Quenching a Thirst for Refreshment While Responding to a Thirst for the Lord with Mark Whitacre
Episode Description: What do Coca-Cola and the Lord have in common? If you are the largest independent bottler of Coca-Cola products in the country, they have everything in common. In this episode, Mark Whitacre, Executive Director of Coca-Cola Consolidated talks about their faith-based business. Including the many Bible studies, the chaplains that visit every location, Continue →
Straightforward Advice for a Better Christian Life with Buck Jacobs
Episode Description: Plain talk about how to lead a better Christian life and how to lead your organization better. That is what you will hear and don't want to miss in this episode of True North Leader. My guest is Buck Jacobs who started the C-12 business leadership groups and he has a lot of great advice for our listeners. Take our FREE ASSESSMENT to evaluate your Continue →
You Don’t Have to Be a Speech Writer to Communicate Effectively
Leaders – how you communicate may be the most important skill you develop. It will impact your culture, employee engagement, customers – even your suppliers. I want to explain some of the basics of good communication. Many leaders often overlook these fundamental principles and sabotage their own effectiveness! Mutual Understanding Maintaining good communication between people in a Continue →
Honoring the Lord with Your Decisions in the Tough Times with Henry Kaestner
Episode Description: How do you honor the Lord with your decisions when there is no cash for payroll? Christian business owners face this type of decision regularly and in this episode of True North Leader, Bobby Albert talks with Henry Kaestner who faced this and other ethical dilemmas on the way to becoming one of the fastest growing businesses in the country. Free Continue →
You Are Not as Good as You Think, or as Bad with Michael Stanford
Episode Description: Addressing criticism and overcoming a bad day, are situations all leaders face. For Christian business leaders, it means facing these issues with integrity and honesty. Michael Stanford, the President of Sharp Iron Group talks about how he and his team face these issues in the workplace; the six Leadership attributes that they measure themselves against; and Continue →
Are You a Business Leader, a Pastor, or Both? with Brian Mosley
Episode Description: As a Christian leading a business, the unchurched who are in your organization may very well see you as their pastor. Brian Mosley, with RightNow Media, expands on that thought and much more in this episode of True North Leader. He shares how they really became transparent in building their team culture and how it has grown each year, as well as some of the growth struggles Continue →
Don’t Wait Till You Crash and Burn to Integrate Your Faith and Work with David Roth
Episode Description: The next generation of young professionals who will be leading in business in the coming years are the same people who are leaving the church in massive numbers right now. Meet David Roth with Workmatters who is doing something about it. He will share how he feels he missed such an opportunity in the first twenty years of his professional life by not integrating Continue →
Leadership Lessons from a College President with Dusty Johnson
Episode Description: According to my guest, Dr. Dusty Johnston leadership can be as simple as identifying good leaders and emulating them. Dusty is the president of Vernon College with campuses in Vernon and Wichita Falls, TX. He continues to be a student of great leadership. After 43 years in education, he has some terrific insights into what leadership is, and he has taken the Continue →