An Essential Guide for Faith-Forward Leaders
Early in his business career, Jeff Banning realized that leadership is not a position but a daily decision. Having grown a small logistics business into a nationally recognized company with an award-winning team culture, Jeff now shares the practices behind his people-centric approach to help you increase your own leadership impact.
42 Critical Behaviors of an Influential Leader reveals the key practices and attitudes every leader needs to drive growth, build trust, and create connection in any context. Organized under the core disciplines of curiosity, humility, and empathy, each behavior discussed combines biblical truth, business insights, and practical applications that will guide you toward consistent, incremental, and intentional change.
Seasoned leaders, faith-driven professionals, mentors, parents, or anyone in a position of influence will appreciate the honest self-assessments and concrete action steps provided throughout. Biblically based and action oriented, this transformative leadership tool offers the life-changing guidance you need to take control of your life and become a leader of influence.
Jeffrey Banning built one of the most successful logistics companies in the nation by creating an empowered and engaged culture and team-oriented business philosophy where people were the priority. With this approach Jeff took a small family business to an award-winning, Great Place to Work® company that spanned the nation. In 2021, Jeff created Aspire Leadership. A transformational leadership development program with his proven philosophy by embracing three core disciplines. Curiosity, Humility and Empathy.
Dr. Drew M. Christian retired from pastoral ministry after 27 years and now serves as the Director of Research & Communication at Aspire Leadership. In 2024, he published his debut book, Three Years: Making a Difference in the Time You Have Left, which was named a Finalist for Book of the Year by the Christlit Book Awards. Praised as "a game-changer for those seeking to finish their journey with purpose and meaning," the book has been described as having "the potential to uplift and transform lives." His second release, The Three Daily Disciplines: A Leadership Carol, followed in 2025. One reviewer hailed it as "one of the most engaging books on leadership I've read" and declared it "required reading for all business leaders."
