According to Dr.Henry Cloud in his book, Integrity, integrity is “courage to meet the demands of reality.” Yes, integrity includes other aspects including but

not limited to habitual honesty through and through and having strong moral principles.

Integrity is the quality you find in a good leader. A good leader will meet the demands of reality. Reality may be stormy seas. The leader will see how to

navigate the ship to a safe harbor.

Reality may be rapid growth. The good leader sees the danger of overextending the company financially and has plans and options to make sure the

financial integrity of the company and the well being of its employees is not compromised.

Leading by meeting the demands of reality allows us to lead from a position of strength, from integrity. How we lead, as Dr. Cloud points out, leaves a

wake. Your wake determines three things.

The type of influence your character has.
Your degree of integrity
Your ability to lead

All living things leave a wake. And the wake tells us two things:

What the person accomplished
How did he deal with people

And from the wake, which is the real performance and results we can tell a lot about the person. What is our wake saying about us? If we don’t like what

we are seeing, we most likely need to add some integrity.

Lead with integrity and the people you lead and you will be better for the experience.

About Us:

I like to have fun with people and what I do. I am a personal business coach, public speaker and author. I first started on this path in 1983. That tells you

something about what I do, but what is more important is who I am.

Self improvement and the opportunity for personal development came at me head on in the early 1980’s. I was educated with two degrees, yet I wasn’t

able to handle it. Why? I was not ready mentally, and more importantly, emotionally. I didn’t understand that the true joys of life come with a drive to self

education, a focus on self improvement.

As an entrepreneur, I have owned several successful businesses and I have had some that were not successful. Throughout the whole process I embraced

the process of self improvement. I learned that success was not something to be pursued. It was to be attracted by the person I was becoming. This was

a radical departure from what I had learned, which was that if I pursued success hard and long enough, it would somehow magically arrive.

When I understood that my success and happiness were about me becoming more as a person I went to work on myself. I totally embraced self

improvement and paths to my personal development. And I stopped directly pursuing success and happiness. Don’t get me wrong. Success and happiness

were and still are very important to me. But, as I became more as a person, success and happiness found me. And they continue to do so today!