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Ed Poole Ed.D.
Ed Poole Quick Facts
Main Areas: Inspiration, Motivation, Leadership, StorytellingBest Sellers: Lessons from the Porch: A Gathering Place for Telling Our Stories, Lessons from the Crossroads: Finding My Authentic Path, Lessons from Empowering Leaders: Real Life Stories to Inspire Your Organization Toward Greater Success (May, 2009)
Career Focus: Author, Public Speaker, Success Coach, Trainer, Organizational Consultant, Storyteller
Affiliation: President, Lessons for Your Journey, Inc.
Throughout his career, Ed Poole has proven his effectiveness as a leader in both the public and private sectors. His experience includes administrative positions in the public school system; from assistant principal to superintendent of schools. Ed taught in the master and doctoral programs at several universities, facilitating the growth and development of educational leaders. He also has experience in a leadership position with a Fortune 100 company.
Ed is founder and president of Lessons for Your Journey, Inc. Services offered include: success coaching, organizational consulting and training, seminars and workshops - all focused on developing the leadership skills within an organization to promote growth and prosperity of the organization as a whole.
Storytelling, as it relates to individual and organizational growth, is a major component of Ed's work. His first two books published, Lessons from the Porch: A Gathering Place for Telling Our Stories and Lessons from the Crossroads: Finding My Authentic Path, are the story of Ed's personal journey toward wholeness. The lessons that emerged from these books are transferable to individuals and organizations that desire to discover their own paths to follow. Personal and organizational growth is synchronistic. Separating the two is impossible. Ed's newest book, Lessons from Empowering Leaders: Real Life Stories to Inspire Your Organization Toward Greater Success (Morgan James Publishing, May, 2009) is now available (www.amazon.com or www.bn.com). The book is a compilation of the stories of leaders throughout the country and demonstrates how leaders can and do use storytelling to encourage all employees to internalize the desire to drive their organizations toward greater success.
An exceptional storyteller, Ed's inspirational and motivational presentations exemplify the application and importance of stories to organizational success.
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Ed Poole
- The story of any one of us is, in part, the story of all of us. We need to have the patience to listen and the wisdom to learn.
- Life is not only about finding yourself, but also creating yourself.
- Storytelling is the best process leaders can use to unveil their own authenticity and that of their organizations.
- We should tolerate confusion - sit with the questions and wait for the answers, listen, and learn from a confusing state.
- Faith is going out not knowing.
- For most of my life, I have wandered before I wondered where I was going and why I wanted to go there.
- Each of our life's experiences provides enough light to help us find the path toward our dreams.
- To become transparent is to become vulnerable, and to become vulnerable is to suffer loss and learn to grieve. As we become vulnerable, we become accessible to others.
- We can't pick the wind, but we can sail the wind - against it, sideways to it, with it.
- The only way leaders lead is by receiving permission from their followers to do so.
- Every day effective leaders say to their followers, "Don't bring me problems. Bring me solutions."
- Change happens faster than we individually can accommodate.
- Effective leaders need to help those with whom they work develop their humanness.
- When we tell stories about our organizational lives, we give shape to the events we have lived.
- All leaders should be willing to stand in front of the full length mirror and ask the difficult question: "What am I doing that is contributing to our current problem?"
Getting Started With Ed Poole
Ed Poole is best known as "The Lesson Guy." Only by telling his life story has Ed been able to learn the lessons that emerged from the story. If we stand still long enough, and are open to the deafening silence we hear, some day along the way we will stumble upon the lessons. Many times Ed has said, "Oh, now I understand what that was all about." Lessons from the Porch, Ed's first book, is a great place to begin. I would also recommend subscribing to The Lesson Guy Newsletter, published quarterly. Both the book and the newsletter provide practical applications to your own personal journey.
Contacting Ed Poole
Address: 1095 E. King Street, Suite 9
Boone, NC 28607
Phone: 828-263-5477
Website: www.thelessonguy.com
Email: edpoole@thelessonguy.com
