Your Leadership Story

In our consulting with The Riverstone Group, we believe that every experience in a leader’s life provides a case study from which he or she can learn leadership lessons. In this episode, David Atchison asks John Kramp to tell about an experience many years ago that taught him important lessons about what leaders can share […]

In this episode, we learn from Jason Claunch, the President and CEO of Catalyst Commerical in Dallas, Texas. This consulting firm works with public and private entitles like DFW Airport, cities, and companies to help them spur growth by leveraging analytical tools. It’s no surprise that Jason Claunch describes himself as a passionate problem solver. […]

Experienced leaders will tell you the same thing: Never lead along. David Atchison, Co-Founder of The Riverstone Group in Nashville, TN shares a story about how he learned this leadership principle in a powerful way as he spent two parts of one summer doing door-to-door sales. For the first half of that summer during college, […]

One look at Danny Herron’s resume reveals an unusually gifted person. Of course, the President and CEO of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Nashville needs an unusual set of knowledge, skills, and experiences. Danny Herron leads a staff of more than 50 people, working with more than 10,000 volunteers each year building enough homes each […]

This is a Bookmark Edition of Your Leadership Story Podcast, one of the episodes when the hosts, John Kramp and David Acthison share some of the fun, funny, and sometimes serious stories about how they grew as leaders. In this episode, John Kramp, Co-Founder of the The Riverstone Group, tells about the day he was […]

We know the common saying, “A rising tide lifts all boats.” But how many of apply that truth to our businesses? John Crossman does. This is episode 16 of Your Leadership Story Podcast and you’re about to meet John Crossman. As the President of Crossman & Company, one of the largest retail leasing, management, development, […]

David Atchison, the Co-Founder of The Riverstone Group learned great leadership lessons from his first major project as a real estate developer. In this episode, you’ll discover principles that are applicable to you. Why meeting a specific need is the key to any business venture Handling rejecting when others do not see the potential in […]

Ask Dr. Jimmy Draper about leadership and the conversation will move quickly to relationships . . . actually, to more than relationships, to real concern for people. If you read Jimmy Draper impressive resume and focused only on the major churches he has led as a pastor, or the two years he served as the […]

In this episode, John Kramp, Co-Founder of The Riverstone Group, shares a story about an encounter that changed the trajectory of his life as a leader. David Atchison and John refer to this as the one about “The Prophet in the Elevator.” No leader wants to be confronted about pride but every leader must grapple […]

Ask Bill Hampton to describe what he does and he will use the term, “strategic striker” — someone who sees opportunities, then steps in with passion to move things forward in a short period of time. In this interview, you’ll discover that with or without using the term, Bill Hampton has worked as a “strategic […]

Over the years, David Atchison, Co-Founder of The Riverstone Group, enjoyed incredible success in commercial real estate development. At the beginning, he thought he knew enough . . . at least enough to make the transition from residential to commercial real estate. That’s when he discovered the gap and knew he had to find a […]

Curtis Borntrager breaks the mold on the typical terms uses to describe business leaders. He is an entrepreneur having started a business. He is a serial entrepreneur having started multiple businesses. But Curtis Borntrager focuses on starting, acquiring, and running multiple businesses. That’s why we call him an multipreneur. Growing up on a dairy farm, […]

Leaders start learning leadership lessons early in life, often as children. In this Bookmark Edition of Your Leadership Story, David Atchison forces John Kramp to take a long journey in the “Way Back Machine” and tell a story about selling charcoal door-to-door in elementary school to earn his way to go to Boy Scout camp. […]

Often, business leaders do not think they cannot learn leadership lessons from someone who leads a church. This leadership interview with Scott Patty will prove that premise wrong. Over 20 years ago, Scott Patty led a handful of families to start a new church. From that small beginning came Grace Community Church, a thriving congregation […]

The official definition of “uh-oh” is the sound people make upon realizing that they are in a bad situation, that they have made a mistake. Sometimes, we sense that mistake before we know it. Around Riverstone, we call that, “The Uh-Oh Feeling.” Leaders, including us, ignore that feeling at great risk. David Atchison, Co-Founder of […]

Bill Seaver, Founder of MicroExplosion Media, shares insights about fearless, influential leadership in this encouraging interview. In his professional career, Bill has experienced business from large corporations to smaller entrepreneurial companies. Along the way, he gained fresh insights that can benefit any leader. Why you should give rather than hoard your ideas How to gain […]

Why would 500, ordinary people volunteer to make 100 phone calls each from their homes from Garland, TX to Portland, OR, paying their own phone bills at a time when the average cost per person for 100 “long-distance” calls was over $100? The answer is complicated but simple: they did so because they believed in […]

David Baker has spent his career in commercial real estate, specifically in the shopping center industry. Just in case you think he is someone who only cares about building structures, think again. David Baker builds relationships. That’s the key to his leadership and his success in a competitive, fast-paced industry. David Baker is a Co-founder […]

Often, leaders demonstrate traits earlier in life that will mark their leadership style in the future. For David Atchison, his entrepreneurial bent showed up while in college at Baylor University. He and four of his friends, exploited a weakness in the rules of a competitive talent show on campus by forming their own 5-person fraternity […]

Mike Mayernick’s success as a financial advisor is undeniable. After 24 years in the industry, Mike has had hundreds of conversations about money. Someone has said, “There are conversations. There are hard conversations. And there are hard conversations about money . . . in that order.” Mike Mayernick knows that truth first hand. His work […]