Ronnie Quimby, Chairman of the Global Leadership Summit (GLS) in Barbados.
The third Global Leadership Summit was well attended at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre.
“Leaders need to up their game.”
This is the view of Ronnie Quimby, Chairman of the Global Leadership Summit (GLS) in Barbados. He told The Barbados Advocate, on the sidelines of the third Global Leadership Summit at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre, that as we tackle economic issues and social issues particularly crime, in whatever sphere, whether in the home, church or in business, good leadership is necessary.
He recounted, “It is an international conference which is put on out of Willow Creek in Chicago. As a partner, we host the summit to help empower, encourage and uplift leaders. We believe when we have strong leaders that the entire society wins.
“Every growing arena, whether home, church, business or non-profit, faces tough challenges, requires hard decisions and demands courageous leadership. Leadership challenges are real and fear of failure exists in shadows, but the resolve of every leader is to never quit but fight; fight not only for the present, but a brighter future. The leader’s role is to move forward, identify the wrongs, create new opportunities and break new ground.
“A summit like this is a positive avenue because the truth is, everything rises and falls on the leader. So when we talk about economic issues or a social issue, it has to do with the fact that leaders need to up their game and make a difference. Challenges will exist, but leaders [must] understand their role and that their responsibility is to lift people; essentially leaders bring solutions or empower others to bring solutions to the table.”
The Chairman stated, “Even when speaking about the level of crime that we’re seeing in Barbados, we have to pay attention who is influencing them. If they are being influenced outside, it means that essentially we need to raise and develop the influence from home, schools and the various organisations such as church. We need to leverage our influence that we can help the people in the community move from that deviant behaviour to a life that is better for them… We hear that when it comes to crime in Barbados that the Church is not doing enough, but the Church is people and we as a community need to step up and deal with this challenge together. We emphasise strong leadership at the summit that pastors and business leaders can learn from each other. There is always an issue of bad leadership in church or business and we see the impacts; what we want to focus on is good leadership.” (NB)