Andreas Jones LSSGB, CPP, CSCS, PMP

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Andreas Jones Quick Facts

Main Areas: Leadership and Management
Best Sellers: Distinguished Men
Career Focus: Author, Coach, Speaker, Business owner and Trainer
Affiliation: John Maxwell Team

Andreas is #1 international best selling author, army combat veteran, coach, speaker, trainer and entreprenuer with over 10 years domestic and internation coporate and military experience. Service in the US Army forged Andreas's character. It tested him, tested his endurance, faith, and internal fortitude. He describes it as "a trial by fire" and remains profoundly grateful for it. When he finally left the Army he did so with an astute understanding of self-ownership, implementing a vision, and the value in establishing trust and reputation. Jones applied all that he had learned serving his country to a series of jobs, including that of an associate VP at Sun Trust Bank. Each of his positions have endowed him with the type of knowledge required to start his own business and to provide a workable schematic for others to follow.

Andreas has taken his hard-won Army lessons into the world of business, continuing to learn new skills and insight. Each fresh challenge, project or position has helped him grow into the successful individual he is today.

In his coaching and speaking, he spotlights core concepts of leadership, integrity, and discipline. He prepares people to use these traits to execute their ideas and goals with excellence and precision. Andreas inspires his clients to live lives of significance and build legacies of influence.

Elite Affinity Partners is the conduit Andreas uses to take the lesson’s he’s learned and transfer them to businessmen and women. Effective leadership is more important today than ever before. Andreas’s mentor John C. Maxwell says, “Everything rises and falls on leadership.”

Andreas believes each and every person has the ability to create a life full of success and impact. These accomplishments will extend into business, personal, and spiritual life. They require both time and commitment. Everyone needs some guidance in learning to improve.The greatest form of leadership is self-leadership. To sustain or create a high performing organization, everyone needs to be a leader; outstanding results occur when individuals are inspired by who they become in achieving their goals and not just by targets or outcomes. When people are inspired and resilient they take responsibility for leading themselves, their teams, their organizations and ultimately their communities.

One of Andreas's greatest joys in life is mentoring with Big Brother Big Sisters and Urban League of Metro Atlanta. Others describe Andreas as a man of great heart, with unexpected insight and clear action plans.

Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Andreas Jones

Everything rises and falls on leadership- John Maxwell

Do follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralp Waldo Emerson

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. John F. Kennedy

Getting Started With Andreas Jones

7 Ways to Be the Very Best Leader You Can Be

The best leaders have a special kind of courage. They have the courage to endure, to persist, to “hang in there” in the face of doubt, uncertainty and criticism.

You are a work in progress; you are always growing and improving. Your job is to become the very best leader you can be. And you can—with regular and persistent practice of these seven courageous habits:

1. Practice patience in adversity.

Courageous patience is the willingness and ability to stay the course in the face of uncertainty, doubt and often criticism from others.

2. Stay the course.

There is a critical time period between the launching of a new venture and the results that come from that venture. During this hiatus, this waiting period, many people lose their nerve. They cannot stand the suspense of not knowing, of possible failure. They break and run in battle, they quake and quit in business.

3. Lead by example.

A true leader is the person who can stand firm, who refuses to consider the possibility of failure. The turning points of many key moments in human history have been the resolution, or lack thereof, of one person. Courageous patience is the acid test of leadership.

To encourage others, to instill confidence in them, to help them to perform at their best requires that you lead by example.

4. Allow honest mistakes.

Alleviate the fears of failure and rejection in others by encouraging your team to take calculated risks and allow honest mistakes.

5. Encourage your team.

Give the people who look up to you regular praise and approval. Celebrate good tries as well as success, large and small. Create a psychological climate where people feel safe from censure, blame or criticism of any kind.

6. Become unstoppable.

Courage comes from acting courageously on a day-to-day basis. Your personal development goal should be to practice the behaviors of a totally fearless person until you become, in your own mind, unstoppable.

7. Prepare for adversity.

Prepare yourself in advance for the inevitable disappointments and setbacks you will experience on the way to your goal. Don’t be surprised when they occur. Resolve in advance that you will bounce rather than break and continually encourage others to think and act the same way.