God grows leaders before He grows businesses.™
Your business or organization can only grow so far before you have to grow too.
You weren't called to simply build a successful business. You were called to become the leader God can entrust with greater influence.
God is always doing two works at the same time.
The visible work changes your circumstances. The invisible work changes you.
Most leaders stall because they are only measuring the first. They read a season of preparation as a season of failure, and they quit six months before the thing they prayed for arrives.
Growth Leadership™ exists to help you recognise both works, so you can respond to the one you cannot see.
Before he taught any of this, he lived it.
James built a two-person venture into a national eight-figure company serving Fortune 500 clients, the FBI, and the U.S. military, earned a place on the Inc. 5000, and sold it. He started that business $300,000 in debt with two children in college.
These frameworks came out of operating, not observing.
Know where you are. Prepare for where God is taking you.™
A roadmap is only useful if you can find yourself on it. The Three Growth Horizons™ tell you which season you are actually in, and what that season is asking of you.
Survival
Find stability, clarity, and alignment.
1
Success
Build systems, leadership, and sustainable results.
2
Scaling with Purpose
Grow with purpose, impact, and integrity.
3
Faith and work stop being two calendars.
The Integrated Faith Business® Framework aligns the three things that actually have to grow together: spiritual growth, leadership development, and business mastery. Growth in one without the others produces something unstable.
"Thou Shall Grow is God's call to raise up marketplace leaders. James reminds us that God prepares leaders before expanding their influence."
Anne Beiler
Founder of Auntie Anne's Pretzels
Inc. 5000 · Forbes · 1,000+ leaders mentored · 150+ speaking events · Board member, International Christian Chamber of Commerce (USA) · Endorsed by the U.S. Christian Chamber of Commerce, Os Hillman, and Colorado Christian University
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