Senior year, business student, co-captain of my college basketball team - People assumed I was on top of the world. Yet secretly, I had been rocked by some bad news. There was a mass in my midsection that had gone undiagnosed for nearly a month and a half. Doctors feared it was cancerous, and medical specialists had never seen anything like it. I eventually met with an ultrasound specialist, bracing for the worst. But as he examined me, he was floored. The mass was gone. It was a modern-day miracle!

Little did I know, more than 23 years later, I would be helping leaders all around the world derive more meaning from their lives - not just for what they do, but who they are. Chasing external results all too often leads people to emptiness and burnout. You are more than what you do. Your innate purpose is worth so much more than the money you earn or the business results you achieve. When we are driven from this internal knowing, we can lead our families, our teams, and our communities from the inside out.

Now, I am the CEO of global leadership consultancy, Holman International, and the bestselling author of three leadership books, Lead the Way, All In, and Move the Needle. In 2022, Global Gurus named me as one of the Top 30 World’s Leadership Thought Leaders and my Inside Out Leadership philosophy has been featured in publications like Inc, Forbes, and Fast Company. My passionate keynote talks lead the way from burnout and emptiness to fulfillment and success, exploring how an individual’s innate purpose is worth so much more than the money they earn or the business results they achieve.