Show Yourself a Man / Lessons in Manhood

About the Speaker

Chris White has over 50 years of experience in leadership, from his service in the U.S. Navy, to IBM, and then to Executive Ministries and Leadership Companies. He is the Founder of Leadership Companies, whose mission since 1986 is developing leaders in the business and professional community. His passion is helping men find their unique calling in life.

Leadership Reading Suggestions
Aging with Grace
Aging with Grace

In 1986 Dr. David Snowdon, one of the world’s leading experts on Alzheimer’s disease, embarked on a revolutionary scientific study that would forever change the way we view aging—and ultimately living.

The Loyalty of a Christian
The Loyalty of a Christian

When you really love Jesus and this love becomes more than just words, you start to love people and do what it takes to help them, in spite of what it may cost you.

Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well
Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well

Join Billy Graham as he reflects upon his life, recounts God's many gifts, and shares the challenges of fading bodily strength while still standing strong in his commitment to finish life well.

Life in Full: Maximize Your Longevity and Legacy
Life in Full: Maximize Your Longevity and Legacy

Eighty million Baby Boomers are now in or approaching their sixties and moving into retirement. While this transition may be difficult, the succeeding years can be fufilling, invigorating, and joyous.

Successful Aging
Successful Aging

Daniel Levitin explores a wealth of information on the complex biology of aging and presents it in an engaging and accessible manner. Writing with insight, compassion and gentle humor he shows us the positive side of the aging process.

Radical Longevity
Radical Longevity

Welcome to a Radical new view of aging—one that defies conventional wisdom and redefines the aging process with resilience, vitality and grace.

Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts

What does healthy intimacy look like? How we do we keep the energy and passion alive in long-term relationships? What practices can help us forgive our partner when he or she has hurt us?

Why Loyalty Matters
Why Loyalty Matters

If you were to ask anyone what factor contributes most to being successful and happy, you can be virtually certain that not one of them would mention loyalty. And that's a problem.

The Art of Thinking Clearly
The Art of Thinking Clearly

Psychologists examined how people think, decide and take action. The result was a theory that “thinking is in itself not pure, but prone to error.” This is true of all people, resulting in everyone falling into the same cognitive errors.

Blink
Blink

Blink is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant-in the blink of an eye-that actually aren't as simple as they seem.

Decisive
Decisive

We’re overconfident. We seek out information that supports us and downplay information that doesn’t. We get distracted by short-term emotions. When it comes to making choices, it seems, our brains are flawed instruments.

The Art of Decision Making
The Art of Decision Making

What is it that makes some of us better—or worse—than others at committing to a choice? What are the forces that hold us back, and how can we successfully overcome them? Every facet of our lives depends on the decisions we make.

How to Decide
How to Decide

What if there was a better way to make quality decisions so you can think clearly, feel more confident, second-guess yourself less, and ultimately be more decisive and be more productive Making good decisions doesn't have to be guesswork.

Stuck: Help for the Troubled Home
Stuck: Help for the Troubled Home

Jesus gave a supremely wise way to tackle the most troubling enemy of our marriages—and almost nobody knows about it. Discover how to regain harmony in your marriage Jesus' way.

Unstuck: A Nine-Step Journey to Change That Lasts
Unstuck: A Nine-Step Journey to Change That Lasts

This practical and biblical guidance recognizes that the path to lasting change can only be found by growing in grace as we look to Christ and are empowered by the Holy Spirit.

Unstuck: Out of Your Cave into Your Call
Unstuck: Out of Your Cave into Your Call

Organized around the most significant event of the prophet Elijah's life, his cave experience, Unstuck helps you discover what is holding you back from starting a new chapter of life.

Choose Integrity: Honesty Is the Foundation for Personal Development
Choose Integrity: Honesty Is the Foundation for Personal Development

You can be honest, live with integrity and base your life on truth. What if you had an iron-clad reputation for honesty and integrity? How would your life change if everyone knew you were totally trustworthy?

Intentional Integrity: How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution
Intentional Integrity: How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution

Defining integrity is difficult. Once understood as “telling the truth and keeping your word,” it was about following not just the letter but the spirit of the law.

The Integrity of the Body of Christ: Boundary Keeping as Shared Responsibility
The Integrity of the Body of Christ: Boundary Keeping as Shared Responsibility

For religious communities to have integrity and credibility they must flourish as places of love and respect. Every aspect of church life is defined and protected by essential boundaries: boundaries around space, time, thought, speech, will, emotion, and behavior--both for clergy and church members.

Integrity: Principles of Christian Ethics
Integrity: Principles of Christian Ethics

Jesus Christ modeled integrity in all that He did and said. The ethical principles He demonstrated comprise the highest and best lifestyle a person can live. These are the foundation of Christian ethics.

The Church in Babylon
The Church in Babylon

Like the Israelites in Babylon, we must find a way to maintain our faith in the midst of a pagan culture. But that requires we answer two crucial questions.

Christians in a Cancel Culture
Christians in a Cancel Culture

You’ve based your understanding of today’s sensitive social issues on the Bible’s truth. Mainstream culture not only sees these issues differently but calls you bigoted for rejecting views they’ve deemed self-evident.

Cancel Culture: The Latest Attack on Free Speech and Due Process
Cancel Culture: The Latest Attack on Free Speech and Due Process

Alan Dershowitz makes an argument for free speech, due process, and restraint against the often overeager impulse to completely cancel individuals.

Lead From The Heart: Transformational Leadership For The 21st Century
Lead From The Heart: Transformational Leadership For The 21st Century

What's certain now is that traditional leadership practices are failing and what's needed is an entirely new model of leadership to match up to the needs & motivations of COVID & Post-COVID, 21st Century workers.

Transformational Leadership
Transformational Leadership

In this book you’ll see stories and tools to equip you for the journey, and help you become the transformational leader you know in your gut you were meant to become. This book isn't for everyone, but it might just be for you.

The Motive: Why So Many Leaders Abdicate Their Most Important Responsibilities
The Motive: Why So Many Leaders Abdicate Their Most Important Responsibilities

New York Times best-selling author Patrick Lencioni has written a dozen books that focus on how leaders can build teams and lead organizations. In The Motive, he shifts his attention toward helping them understand the importance of why they’re leading in the first place.

The Power of a Humble Life
The Power of a Humble Life

This book examines one of life’s greatest paradox, that strength is found in humility. The problem is, humility does not come naturally to us.

The Road to Character
The Road to Character

Looking to some of the world’s greatest thinkers and inspiring leaders, Brooks explores how, through internal struggle and a sense of their own limitations, they have built a strong inner character.

Ego Is the Enemy
Ego Is the Enemy

Many of us insist the main impediment to a full, successful life is the outside world. In fact, the most common enemy lies within: our ego.

Humility
Humility

With insightful, penetrating clarity, Murray calls all Christians to turn from pride, empty themselves, and study the character of Christ to be filled with His grace.