Long ago I left university bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. The corporate world was a great place to learn leadership, and I thrived there. I learned how to sell, how to market, and how to engineer. More importantly, I learned how to connect with others and how to influence. I was learning to lead...
Yet I yearned for more. I noticed every time I spoke to an audience, a spark was lit. I felt a calling, one that whispered louder and louder as time went by. Finally, after 15 years of making other people's dreams come true, I left the grips of corporate world and ventured out into the wilderness of entrepreneurialship. There I would learn the most of any work I've ever had. I learned to be a leader of my own companies, how important failure is to ultimate success, and that your people are your company. Most of all, I learned to tell stories. Because when it all comes down to the boilerplate, everyone loves a great story.