John C. Maxwell

Earlier this week, we celebrated our Independence Day here in the US. It’s a holiday that always prompts me to think about the word “freedom.” This word gets thrown around a lot this time of year, and depending on who you are and your experiences, you might have varied and complicated feelings about what the word means. I make it...

When people ask me what I’ve experienced personally over the last few years, my answer is simple: I’m leadership sad. Why? Because I’m watching leaders live beneath their possibilities by dividing rather than uniting others. The mode of operation for any leader should be to bring people together, not divide them. Great leaders divide their enemies and unite their friends....

One of the questions I get asked the most is “How do I find happiness or success?” And then the follow-up question to that is “What does that look like for me in my life?” These are big questions, and ones that can be answered in many ways. But over the course of more than 50 years, what I’ve experienced...

I was sitting on the front row at the International Maxwell Certification in Orlando, FL listening to my friend Mark Cole deliver a keynote presentation on the future of our organizations. Looking around at a room full of leaders from around the globe who were eager and willing to pick up the baton of leadership that I am passing to...

Do you feel like you’ve hit a wall in your success – either in your personal life or professional development? Like there’s nowhere else to go but down or sideways? Being stuck and not knowing what to do about it is one of worst feelings in life, no matter who you are and what you do. But the good news...

The John Maxwell Enterprise Announces an Innovative Partnership Series for 21st Century Leadership: The League of Extraordinary Leaders The globe’s premier leadership organization shares a fresh strategy for expanding leadership training and influence through a series of strategic partnerships with five unique thought leaders and their organizations. Every significant brand—especially those built around a game-changing personality—arrives at a point where...