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- Leary Gates on Tribute to Anna Gates on our 30th Anniversary: "Thanks Stephanie! Family hug.
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My Posts on DadPad- Connecting With Your Kids Series: #4-Connecting the WWJD Way.
- No Waiting! Aisle One.
- The Allure of Beauty
- The Subordination of Terra Firma Man
- “Yes, you can.”
- Father’s Day Fast Forward: Top 10 Ways to Know Dad Loved You
- Father’s Day Memories-a series Pt 3: Lollipop Dad
- Is Pixar’s “Up” about giving up?
- It’s About Time to Talk
- Proverbial Envy
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Leading breakthroughs
I’m privileged to be leading three organizations. Each of them reflects something of the passions that I have for business and ministry. Through each of them I seek to inspire others to innovate, take risk and celebrate achievement.
Lumina Consulting Group, a firm I founded in 1995, creates business development strategy for technology-driven companies. I like to think of our role as being a strategic breakthrough catalyst for our clients. We take the ingredients of their industry and product expertise to drive new ways of engaging a market. Newness is the keyword; breakthrough is the outcome.
Platinum Group
Vocabra, is my personal start-up favorite right now. We are building customized managed services to interact with today’s fast-paced consumers. We call that kind of interaction being “mobility minded.” Of particular interest to me is the variety of technologies we are employing for our clients: speech recognition, text messaging, real-time transcription, voice print authentication—you name it. The economic value of these technologies to our clients is staggering.
BoldPath Life Strategies is my ministry home. I founded this non-profit in 2003 as an outlet for my passion to inspire men to engage, intentionally, in pursuit of their life purpose. Too many of us take on life more reactively than intentionally, leaving us feeling out of stride with who we were designed to be. And all too often, the messages we receive from our jobs, our families, and our churches are that we’ve not done enough. It’s my desire to help lift that burden by inspiring men in their own personal breakthroughs.
I invite you click on the links embedded above or on the logos to the right to learn more. When you look closely at each of these endeavors, the most important discovery I hope you make is that they pass John Quincy Adams’ test of leadership.