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Join me at Rethink Leadership on April 26-27 in Atlanta

For the last 20 years I've been involved with events and conferences. Putting them on, producing them, attending, creating, and ultimately being impacted by them.

One of the things about conferences that is incredibly helpful, but hard to create is a peer to peer learning environment. An environment where the experts are not just on the stage, but actually in the seats next to you and at the tables around you. 

That's one of the many reasons I'm excited about Rethink Leadership, a gathering for senior pastors, lead pastors, and executive pastors happening next month in Atlanta on April 26-28. 

I'm helping curate this event along with Carey Nieuwhof and Reggie Joiner, and if you're in a leadership position in the local church or a non profit, this gathering is for you and you're invited! 

If you haven't registered for Rethink Leadership yet, please do so now!

TODAY, Thursday, March 16, is the last day you can get early bird pricing, but your registration also gets you into a pre-event reception Tuesday night.

Then over the next two days, you'll get a chance to interact not only with 600 other leaders from across the US and the around the world, but with world class leaders like Bob Goff, Reggie Joiner, Jon Acuff, Les McKeown, Jeff Henderson, Kara Powell, Dan Reiland, Geoff Surratt, Danielle Strickland, Carlos Whittaker, Clay Scroggins and more. We'll have main stage sessions, but also affinity conversations where the crowds are smaller and your questions get answered. 

So if you haven't locked down your spot at Rethink Leadership yet, do so NOW!

Look forward to seeing you in Atlanta next month!

Young Influencers List, February Edition

Here you go, the February edition of the Young Influencers List. You can see all the past month's lists here.

1. Jimi Cravity - (real name Maurice!) Atlanta based singer, songwriter, worship leader and recent album HEAVEN released through Capital Records. 

2. Ash Huang - San Francisco designer, artist, author and innovation curator. 

3. John Luke Robertson - current Liberty University student, author and blogger, along with part of the TV reality hit show Duck Dynasty. 

4. Ben Kirksey - Fayetteville, AR based Director of the Workmatters Institute

5. Amanda Minatra - creative director at Fresh Life Church in Kalispell, MT. 

6. Carson Case - Coastal Carolina student, social media messenger, speaker, blogger and part of NewSpring Church team.

7. Pete Wynter - London based curate at Holy Trinity Brompton Church, along with Director of Leadership College London

Young Influencers List, January Edition

Here you go, the January edition of the Young Influencers List. You can see all the past month's lists here

1. Inky Johnson - author and inspirational speaker, who was severely injured in college football and now inspiring teams and leaders, with talks such as this to Ole Miss Football team. 

2. Kari Fosse - co founder of Lalabu, an Atlanta based clothing company, described as simple baby wearing primarily for moms (but also dads!)

3. Maya Moore - multiple Olympic gold medalist, NCAA champion and WNBA champion with Minnesota, along with WNBA all star and MVP. 

4. Caleb Stanley - co-founder of The Alternative, a young adult gathering in south Atlanta metro. 

5. Ross Slough - Denton, TX campus pastor of Cross Timbers Church in Dallas area.

6. Abby Acone - Colorado Springs based weather reporter for ABC local station KRDO

7. David Williams - leads social and digital marketing at Chick-fil-A corporate. 

Young Influencer List, December Edition

Here you go, the December edition of the Young Influencers List. You can see all the past month's lists here

1. Craig Springer- Denver baed executive director of Alpha USA and former teaching pastor/executive pastor at Cherry Hills Community Church. 

2. The Wild Reeds - LA based all female indie/rock band of three. 

3. Eddie Lee - former White House staffer, now entrepreneur, filmmaker, storyteller, seminary student and digital strategist. 

4. Scott Sehnert- Dallas Cowboys nutritionist and director of sports performance. 

5. Jedidiah Thurner - pastor, speaker, and founder of 1 Nation 1 Day and executive director of Missions.Me

6. Mack Brock - Charlotte based singer, songwriter, and worship leader at Elevation Church and part of Elevation Worship. 

7. Amanda Bible Williams - Nashville based chief content officer of She Reads Truth, and co-author of the book She Reads Truth

 

15 New Books I Recommend

It's the end of the year. And this is probably more than you can read over the Christmas holiday, but wanted to provide my current top 15 list of new books I recommend you read. In no particular order:

1. Team of Teams - Stanley McChrystal 

2. How's Your Soul? - Judah Smith

3. Designed to Lead - Eric Geiger and Kevin Peck 

4. Tools of Titans - Tim Ferriss

5. Originals - Adam Grant 

6. Grit - Angela Duckworth 

7. Smarter, Faster, Better - Charles Duhigg

8. When You, Then God - Rusty George 

9. The Content Trap - Bharat Anand

10. Present Over Perfect - Shauna Niequist 

11. The Ideal Team Player - Patrick Lencioni

12. TED Talks - Chris Anderson 

13. Shoe Dog - Phil Knight

14. Living Forward - Michael Hyatt and Daniel Harkavy

15. #AskGaryVee - Gary Vaynerchuk

BONUS: Thomas Friedman's new book Thank You for Being Late