SUMMARY
With the 2025 Global Leadership Summit just a few weeks away, GLN President and CEO David Ashcraft sits down with Senior Vice President, Summit Experiences, Lori Hermann, to talk about how she leads the people that create and execute the world’s premier leadership event year after year. They also explore how leaders can get the most out of an event like the Summit, and which speakers they are looking forward to hearing.
IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 Intro
03:20 How Lori came to be the Executive Producer of the Global Leadership Summit.
05:40 An overview of how the GLS identifies and invites potential Summit speakers.
09:15 The importance of actionable leadership content.
10:35 Who are the potential surprise speakers at this year’s Summit?
12:15 Who are the household names that will be at the 2025 Summit?
14:10 Why excellence is important, and how to recognize it.
16:50 How do you respond when a creative element is not going as well as you planned?
19:20 How do you make decisions when you’re in the moment and there’s not enough time get all the information you’d like to have?
22:30 How to respond as a leader when you get pushback from your team.
25:30 Working through conflict (as a conflict-averse person).
27:50 What can leaders expect to take away from the Summit experience?
31:20 The power of bringing a team to the Summit.
34:30 Outro
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STANDOUTS AND TAKEAWAYS
- Excellence honors God and inspires people.
- Excellence is not perfection; it is doing your best with the resources you have at that moment.
- When something is not turning out the way you wanted or expected, before you move to blaming someone, ask questions to find out what is going on. Then, move to support and help solve any problems.
- Over time, leaders can develop “unconscious confidence” and learn to trust their instincts when a decision needs to be made in the moment.
- If you haven’t prepared—planned, tested and rehearsed—you shouldn’t be surprised if something goes wrong.
- Having people in the right place to use their gifts and effective communication are also foundational to success.
- Collaboration and continuity are important for building and maintaining trust in a team.
- Dealing with conflict effectively requires trust.
- If you want to get the most out of the Summit, commit to be present and minimize distractions.
- Experiencing the Summit with a team creates common language and experience.
LINKS MENTIONED
David Ashcraft
President and CEO | Global Leadership NetworkWhitney Putnam
Vice President of Marketing | Global Leadership NetworkLori Hermann
Executive Producer | Global Leadership NetworkEp 183: Lori Hermann (GLN SVP, Summit Experiences) on Producing a World-Class Leadership Event
TOPICS IN THIS PODCAST
CollaborationCommunicationConflict ManagementLeading OrganizationsLeading OthersWith the 2025 Global Leadership Summit just a few weeks away, GLN President and CEO David Ashcraft sits down with Senior Vice President, Summit Experiences, Lori Hermann, to talk about how she leads the people that create and execute the world’s premier leadership event year after year. They also explore how leaders can get the most out of an event like the Summit, and which speakers they are looking forward to hearing.
On This Podcast
David Ashcraft
Global Leadership Network
David Ashcraft is President and CEO of the Global Leadership Network, as well as President of The Advantage, a leadership collaborative serving pastors in Pennsylvania. As Senior Pastor of LCBC in Pennsylvania for 32 years, he helped grow weekly attendance from 150 people to a combined average of more than 22,000.
Whitney Putnam
Global Leadership Network
Whitney Putnam is the Vice President of Marketing at the Global Leadership Network. She is passionate about men and women working together to expand their influence so that many more people come to know Jesus. As a builder, Whitney cares deeply about building healthy and holistic communities of people, from the team she has the joy of working with at the GLN to those in her neighborhood. She is a well-respected leader and innovator having served as an executive leader at several global non-profits. She’s a mom to three little girls and married to a tall redhead named Michael. They can most often be found dancing in their kitchen and occasionally sprinkling confetti in greeting cards, all while living in Dallas, Texas.
Lori Hermann
Global Leadership Network
Lori is the Executive Producer at the Global Leadership Network. The GLN is a community committed to learning from each other and using their influence to inspire and equip world-class leadership that ignites transformation. Lori leads a team of content curators and developers, producers and artists as they design and execute the Global Leadership Summit and year-round leadership development events, tools and resources. The GLS reaches more than 400,000 individuals around the globe each year with world-class leadership development. Lori has a passion to create opportunities that help others develop into the best version of themselves and has done that from the beginning of her career in health education at an HMO, the Arthritis Foundation and American Heart Association. She then brought her strategic gifts and event experience to Willow Creek Community Church where she led creative teams to produce weekend services, special events, conferences and church resources. In 2000 she transitioned to the Willow Creek Association (now known as the Global Leadership Network) to lead the Arts Ministry Business Segment and in 2013 became the Executive Producer of the Global Leadership Summit, as well as the year-round resources and events.
Show Notes
SUMMARY
With the 2025 Global Leadership Summit just a few weeks away, GLN President and CEO David Ashcraft sits down with Senior Vice President, Summit Experiences, Lori Hermann, to talk about how she leads the people that create and execute the world’s premier leadership event year after year. They also explore how leaders can get the most out of an event like the Summit, and which speakers they are looking forward to hearing.
IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 Intro
03:20 How Lori came to be the Executive Producer of the Global Leadership Summit.
05:40 An overview of how the GLS identifies and invites potential Summit speakers.
09:15 The importance of actionable leadership content.
10:35 Who are the potential surprise speakers at this year’s Summit?
12:15 Who are the household names that will be at the 2025 Summit?
14:10 Why excellence is important, and how to recognize it.
16:50 How do you respond when a creative element is not going as well as you planned?
19:20 How do you make decisions when you’re in the moment and there’s not enough time get all the information you’d like to have?
22:30 How to respond as a leader when you get pushback from your team.
25:30 Working through conflict (as a conflict-averse person).
27:50 What can leaders expect to take away from the Summit experience?
31:20 The power of bringing a team to the Summit.
34:30 Outro
LISTEN
Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube
STANDOUTS AND TAKEAWAYS
LINKS MENTIONED
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