Post by Mike Budden

The story that stays with me from this conversation is the one Patrick Berges tells about being a colourblind kid whose picture got laughed at in class. His mother didn't fix it for him. She asked him what he could influence... and a handwritten letter to the CEO of Crayola later, the markers had the colour names printed on them. He says that was the first time he felt what it was like to be led. To have someone draw a better version of him than he could reach on his own. Everything he has built since carries that same thread. The work is never really about the programme or the model. It's about the people, one at a time, and what becomes possible for them when someone leads them well. Pat has shared this in his time with Corporates, as well as partnering with Simon Sinek in his non-profit work, to a solo-preneur and now with us. Bob Chapman's words to Pat near the end were "it's your turn." Watching him pick it up, I keep thinking about how far that reaches. Every leader he helps carries it into their own span of care. I am privileged to be led by this leader and feel inspired by his big vision to expand our purpose and impact our world for good through business. What made you feel, for the first time, what it was like to be truly led?