Bob Seymore

Helping to build capacity in people, organizations and communities

The Global Leadership Summit-A resource

The Global Leadership Summit is not just an event to attend, it’s a resource to be leveraged. That’s a phrase that inspired me several years ago after over 10 years of participating in the GLS both locally and globally, but I will have to admit it has moved from an idea to a conviction in recent years. There are events and conferences that come across my desk every week and while […]

The Reality of Influence

One of the most interesting perspectives of growing older is looking back and recognizing those times in your life when you seized opportunities and those times when you let opportunities pass you by. And what I am realizing is that most of those opportunities come because of this whole idea called influence. A dictionary definition of the word influence says: the capacity or power of persons or things to be a […]

GLS-Own it’s!

The Global Leadership Summit is a two-day event that is broadcast LIVE from the Willow Creek Community Church campus near Chicago every August to more than 600+ locations in North America. Then throughout the fall, GLS events take place globally in an additional 1300+ global sites in 125 countries and is translated into 60 languages. Every year the team at Willow assembles a world class faculty including speakers from business, […]

GLS: At the heart of a City Movement

There is a lot of talk and several examples of City Movements where we see public and private sectors join forces to make a sustainable impact in local communities, but I have rarely seen a connection point quite like the Global Leadership Summit(GLS) which has been produced annually for the last 20 years by the Willow Creek Association. The Global Leadership Summit is a two-day event that is broadcast LIVE […]

Never confuse limited resources with limited capacity

Never confuse limited resources with limited capacity…that idea continued to resonate with our team as we participated in Global Leadership Summit sites in the country of Myanmar just a few weeks ago. It all began in Myanmar in 2009 when a team from WCA, Singapore and Evansville Indiana worked in collaboration to launch the first GLS in a Yangon church for a passionate group of 350 Burmese pastors and leaders. […]

Engage-Build a Great City

We often say “Engage” is a verb, not a noun. That’s because Engage is the strategy of  a group of local leaders, community organizations and concerned residents in Henderson, Kentucky and Evansville Indiana.  Our mission is to provide a process that creates partnerships with residents and community resources to improve the quality of life in targeted neighborhoods. Engage Values include: LISTEN-Seek to understand the dreams, gifts and strengths of people […]

Church Planting-NYC

At One Life Church, We are church planters. In 2013, we took a team of 50 people to Movement Day in New York City as part of our ongoing relationship with Mac Pier and the New York Leadership Center. Our team had the opportunity to do a teaching track at Movement Day in Times Square and then we spent a day visiting neighborhoods in Manhattan where we got to hear […]