Posts Tagged ‘Jerry Baker’

How a Big Company Can Feel Small

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

For years, I had the priv­i­lege of coach­ing the CEO of a national mort­gage com­pany with 6000 employ­ees. He then went on to serve as the CEO of the national bank that owned that mort­gage com­pany, where he was respon­si­ble for lead­ing and serv­ing the 13,000 team mem­bers. And for the last year and a half, I’ve had the plea­sure of work­ing side by side with this past client, as he is now a CEO Men­tor and Exec­u­tive Coach here at Build­ing Champions.

His name is Jerry Baker.

Over the past 10 years or so, we have enjoyed coach­ing hun­dreds of those who served under Jerry’s lead­er­ship. These clients have ranged in roles from exec­u­tives to mid level man­agers, as well as many of the company’s sales force. What we have seen and heard is that almost every­one in this com­pany really knew and cared for Jerry. And most of them felt that Jerry knew and cared for them.

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