Live2Lead 2021 Champaign, IL

Live2Lead is a half-day leadership and personal growth event simulcast to hundreds of locations worldwide on October 8, 2021. This event is an annual leadership gathering developed by The John Maxwell Company. For many years, Live2Lead has shared leadership and personal growth principles to a live audience and over 300 simulcast locations around the world.

Attendees learn from renowned leadership experts from a variety of industries, gain new perspectives on relevant topics, and get practical tools to take home with them.

We guarantee you will leave equipped and excited to lead and create change with renewed passion and drive.

AT LIVE2LEAD YOU WILL...

Learn from World Class Leaders

Learn from elite thinkers and the #1 leadership expert in the world, John C. Maxwell. Gain leadership principles and personal growth techniques from world-renowned experts and their time-tested teaching.

Impact Your Community

Whether you lead a large organization or want to be a better mentor to those around you, you will gain meaningful and relevant insights so you can return home ready to implement your new action plan and lead with renewed passion and commitment.

Make Meaningful Connections

This event is an opportunity for you to network with like-minded leaders who share your passion for leadership and learning. Make new connections or build on the ones you have during this event.

Check-in starts at 7:20 AM. Event starts at 8:00 AM and concludes at 12:30 PM.

John C. Maxwell

John C. Maxwell, the #1 New York Times bestselling author, coach, and speaker who has sold more than 30 million books, has been identified as the #1 leader in business by the American Management Association® and the world’s most influential leadership expert by Business Insider and Inc. magazine. Dr. Maxwell has also received the Horatio Alger Award, as well as the Mother Teresa Prize for Global Peace and Leadership from the Luminary Leadership Network. His organizations—The John Maxwell Company, The John Maxwell Team, EQUIP, and the John Maxwell Leadership Foundation—have trained millions of leaders from every nation in the world.

Jamie Kern Lima

Jamie Kern Lima is a New York Times bestselling author, American entrepreneur, billion dollar business success story, champion of women, philanthropist, culture-shifter and highly sought-after keynote speaker. She Co-Founded IT Cosmetics from her living room, grew it into a top-selling makeup and skincare brand, then sold it to L’Oréal for $1.2 Billion, in their largest US acquisition to date, making Jamie the first female CEO of a brand in L’Oréal’s 100+ year history. She’s the author of the new book Believe IT: How to Go From Underestimated to Unstoppable, an instant New York Times bestseller, USA Today bestseller, #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller, #1 Amazon bestseller, #1 Publisher’s Weekly bestseller and #1 Barnes & Noble bestseller.

Jamie is passionate about inspiring and mentoring entrepreneurs, building businesses, making a difference in the lives of women and girls and giving back in a big way. As a passionate speaker, Jamie loves sharing her stories of inspiration, underestimation, overcoming self-doubt, rejection and never giving up.

From working as a grocery bagger at Safeway grocery store, to waitressing at Denny’s, Jamie’s always hustled to pay her way through school and make her dreams happen. Prior to launching IT Cosmetics, Jamie was an award-winning TV news anchor with beauty challenges including sparse brows and sensitive skin and she could never find products that truly worked. That’s when IT Cosmetics and Jamie’s mission to empower every woman to believe in her own beauty was born. Jamie’s now shared this vision of inclusivity and inspiration, doing more than 1000 live TV appearances herself on QVC, where she grew IT Cosmetics to be the largest beauty brand in QVC history. Through her work, Jamie has built an inspired community of millions of women across the country and globally who have shared their stories of overcoming struggle when it comes to confidence and self-worth.

Jamie graduated Valedictorian from Washington State University and received her MBA from Columbia University. Jamie’s recently been named on the 2020 Forbes Richest Self-Made Women list, Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs, WWD’s 50 Most Powerful Women in Beauty, Porter Magazine’s Incredible Women list and is a member of the CBS Board of Overseers and Harvard Women’s Leadership Forum. She also received the 2019 Columbia University Medal of Excellence, EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women Award, Columbia Business School’s Distinguished Early Achievement Alumni of the Year Award, Fashion Group International Star Award, the CEW Achiever Award and is the recipient of the 2019 Look Good, Feel Better Dream Ball Award.

Jamie is energized by an unremitting passion to inspire and empower girls, women and entrepreneurs and has been featured on Good Morning America, Today, CBS This Morning, CNBC, Nightline and Joel Osteen and in The New York Times, O Oprah Magazine, PEOPLE, Marie Claire, Shape, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and more.

Jamie currently owns part or all of more than 15 companies. She also works passionately with many philanthropic causes including Look Good Feel Better®, where IT Cosmetics has donated $40 million in product to date to help women face the effects of cancer with more confidence. Jamie’s also donating 100% of her author proceeds for Believe IT to Feeding America and Together Rising. Jamie lives in Los Angeles with her husband Paulo, daughter Wonder, son Wilder and two French Bulldogs Rainbow and Sunshine. Learn more at JamieKernLima.com

Valorie Burton

Valorie Burton, life strategist and international speaker, is CEO of the Coaching and Positive Psychology (CaPP) Institute. Her life-changing message has an intriguing, research-based emphasis in the pioneering field of applied positive psychology - the study of what happens when things go right with us.

Her company provides coaching, coach training, and resilience training and has served clients in all 50 states and 20 countries on six continents. Since 1999, she has written 13 books translated into multiple languages, including Let Go of the Guilt, It's About Time, and Successful Women Think Differently.

She has appeared regularly on the TODAY Show, CNN, Dr. Oz, and Essence, and has spoken for hundreds of organizations around the globe. She was named one of the top 60 motivational speakers in America and one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders in the field of personal development.

For over 15 years, Valorie's books, speaking engagements, and coaching programs have helped people:

- Make major life changes that are exciting and scary at the same time.

- Be happier and have more fun, even when life seems routine.

- Become strong leaders, navigate office politics, and achieve professional dreams.

- Navigate setbacks and disappointments in a way that makes life better, not bitter.

- Speak up with confidence rather than settling for less.

- Go to sleep at night feeling at peace about decisions.

- Conquer emotions that cause procrastination, emotional spending, and self-sabotage.

Valerie and her husband Jeff live on a ranch south of Atlanta with their children.

Jeff Henderson

Named by Forbes Magazine as one of 20 speakers you shouldn’t miss, Jeff Henderson has become a trusted voice for businesses and non-profit organizations. His career experience not only inspires groups and individuals but also provides tangible strategies to help them grow. Ultimately, Jeff’s aim is to help organizations build a good name where both purpose and profit thrive.

His best-selling book, Know What You’re FOR, launched a movement in non-profits around the world and has become a focal point for many businesses.

Jeff has worked for well-known organizations such as the Atlanta Braves, Callaway Gardens, Chick-fil-A and North Point Ministries, one of the largest churches in America. While there, Jeff where he led three churches over 17 years and helped launch North Point Online, one of the largest online ministries in the world.

Ed Mylett

Ed Mylett is one of the top business leaders, peak performance experts, and global keynote speakers in the world today. While many leaders and speakers just “talk the talk,” Ed is a team-made millionaire who has built one of the most prolific financial service businesses the world has ever seen.

A native of Diamond Bar, California, Mylett graduated from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communications. While in college, Mylett was a standout Division I baseball player. Mylett’s collegiate career highlights include three All-American nominations, leading the NCAA in stolen bases, and ranking among the top ten players of all time in five separate statistical categories. A highly promising prospect, Mylett hoped to play Major League Baseball; however, a significant injury dealt a final blow to his athletic aspirations.

Soon, Mylett transferred his passion for baseball to a career with WFG in 1992. From the beginning of his tenure with the company, Mylett employed maximum effort toward building his WFG business. Mylett benefitted from his outstanding service by quickly advancing to the level of CEO Marketing Director, then to Senior Executive Vice Chairman.

In 2006, Mylett was promoted to the Chairman’s Council. As a member of the Chairman’s Council, Mylett works with several other executives to develop WFG’s business models and relations. Ed Mylett currently serves WFG as Director of Field Leadership.

With hobbies such as weight training, playing golf, and visiting his lake house, Ed Mylett maintains an active schedule. Mylett also proudly supports charitable and community initiatives such as the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America, the All for One Foundation, and the National Leadership Foundation.

Ed has a passion for mentoring and coaching others on what it takes to become a champion in all areas of life. He has shared the stage and has very close personal relationships with other business legends such as Tony Robbins, John Maxwell, Phil Knight and many others.

Watch this highlight video from last year's Live2Lead