The objective of the book “Transparent Leader” would be to encourage CEO’s to become more transparent with their lives both professionally and personally, and to have the reader see how the men in this book have been willing to encourage other men with their testimonies.  The fact that no matter how much success or how many failures they have had, that their faith in God was the overriding factor in each situation.  Thus I feel that each man has a strength that is very consistent throughout their lives as outlined below.

Sam Addoms  President/CEO Frontier Airlines; - “Overcoming an insurmountable objective”

Jim Amos  President/CEO Mail Boxes Etc.; Largest non-food franchise business in the world - “Commitment Counts”

Jim Amos has spent most of his professional life in the franchise business, after having a very successful career in the Marine Corp where he received the Purple Heart for his action in the Vietnam Conflict. He has found that no matter what your objective, it is commitment that counts.

Bill Armstrong  Former U.S. Congress; U.S. Senate; Entrepreneur - “Business, Politics, Religion-What Else”

Bill Armstrong has been a very successful businessman in the radio and TV business and was also a State Senator in Colorado for Ten years.  He then ran for and won three two-year  terms in the U.S. House of Representatives followed by two six-year terms in the U.S. Senate.  All those years his one central theme in his life has been Christ makes a big difference.

Ken Blanchard  Chairman and Co-Founder Ken Blanchard Company - “Servant Leadership”

Ken Blanchard had a driving desire to make a difference in the life of the students that he was responsible for teaching and did not feel he could do it in the confines of the classroom. As a result, he founded Blanchard and Associates in 1978 to carry his management and people skills to a more professional level of training and along the line sort of accidentally wrote the “One Minute Manager”  which has sold over 9,000,000 copies and is still on the best seller list. He truly makes a difference.

Hank Brown  Former U.S. Congress; U.S. Senate; President, University of Northern Colorado - “Using The Talents You Have Been Given”

Hank Brown has been the President of his College student Body, a highly decorated navigator in the U.S. Navy over Vietnam. He had a very successful career as the President and CEO of the small animal operation in the biggest animal feed lot company in the World.  He was a state senator in Colorado for ten years, U.S. Congressman for ten years and a U.S. Senator for six years.  He is now a College President and truly has been using the talents God gave him.

Chuck Buck  Chairman/CEO Buck Knifes - “Carry On the Legacy”

Chuck Buck is carrying on the legacy as s second generation family President and CEO of the largest pocket knife manufacturer in the world.  With over two million of their knifes being sold every year all over the world. The same simple inscription in each knife box sharing John 3:16 as their theme and the fact that from the very beginning of the company, God has been a partner in the business.

Bob Buford  Chairman/CEO Buford Cable Vision; Author Halftime and Game Plan - “What is Half Time”

Bob Buford let the world know where he was when he wrote the book Half Time. His concern of how do you go when you have reached success, and when should you start to have a life of significance.  Bob simply puts it, “when and what is halftime in our lives.”

Dick Capen  Former Editor/Publisher Miami Herald; Ambassador to Spain - “How Do We Finish Strong”

Dick Capen has been an under secretary of the U.S. Defense Dept., an editor and publisher of one of the largest newspapers in the U.S., and did in fact start the largest Hispanic newspaper in the U.S.  He was also the ambassador to Spain under President Bush. He has served for over ten years on the Billy Graham Evangelical Board of Directors, and has just written his first book Finish Strong.

Chuck Colson Founder/Chairman Prison Fellowship; Former Presidential Advisor - “Using His Broken Life As An Example For Others”

Adolph Coors IV  Businessman, Lecturer, Great grandson of Coors Company founder - “Having the Courage of your Convictions”

Adolph Herman Joseph Coors IV, certainly had the courage of his convictions to leave the family business, which bears his name and which is the third largest brewery and the largest ceramic manufacturer in the U.S.  Ad, had a story to tell and he has spent the last twenty years telling that story all over the country.

John Couch  Former VP COO Apple Computer; took company from 0 to $1,000,000,000 in 5 years - “Man of Vision”

John Couch was one of the youngest super stars of the U.S. computer companies.  When he helped take a start up company from 0 - One Billion dollars in sales in five years,  only to find out that was not as important as finding out who he was and who the members of his family were. He then spent ten years re-building a K-12 Christian School and re-building his family before returning to Silicon Valley to pursue business.

Vince D’Acchioli  Former Fortune 500 Executive; motivational speaker - “Learning and Teaching from Experience”

Vince D’Achiolli spent twenty-six years of his life with one of the fortune 500 companies finding out that God had other plans for his life.  For the last six years he has been working sixty hours a week trying to help men stay on target with their lives, both professionally and personally.

Ronald C. Harris  Former President/CEO Mid Continent Corp.; Ex VP JD Edwards Corp. - “Learning How to be Intimate”

Ron Harris spent twenty-three years as a key man in the largest regional bank before he realized God had others plans for his life.  He pursued that direction for a couple of years to find out it was the wrong direction, and then went back into the corporate life as the CEO of a large regional/national Company before he realized how difficult it is for the male species to be intimate.

Jerry Lewis  Former Founder/President/CEO Petro-Lewis, a $3,800,000,000 partnership - “Stay Focused”

Jerry Lewis not only founded, but also ran the company that sold more oil & gas partnerships in a shorter period of time than any other company in the World.  Then he found out that it didn’t make any difference how successful your public stock issue is, or how many times your stock splits, that the relationship to God and family is all that counts.

Bill McCartney  NCAA Coach of the year; Founder/CEO Promise Keepers - “Power of Prayer”

Bill McCartney was named the NCAA football coach of the year for all Colleges & Universities in the U.S., only to find that he was losing the two most important women in his life, his wife and daughter.  He resigned his coaching job and lifetime contract, as a way to show his wife that she was the most important person in his life, next to God. Then God gave him the vision to start the largest men’s movement in the History of the U.S.

Dr. William McColl  Nationally Renowned orthopedic surgeon; Sports Hall of Fame member - “Being Transparent”

Dr. Bill McColl the first and last four sport three year letterman, all-American football player, all-pro and member of the pro sports hall of fame, who left medical school to be a missionary in Korea for two years with six children ages 1-7.  He went on to be an extremely successful orthopedic surgeon and yet found he had several shortcomings in his life that, have helped him to be transparent.

Will Perkins  Chairman Perkins Motors & Chairman Colorado Amendment II - “Consistency” 

William (Bill) Williams  Former President/CEO Pyxis Corp. - “Going Public, Not A Panacea!”