Chapter 11: The New Zealand Experience

"Before Launching Leaders, I did not believe my dreams were posible". -Yi-Han Wu.

Launching Leaders

It is a 12-week intesive career-training and personal development program aimed at providing the skills, knowledge, and support needed by young people to put into action their business, professional, or entrepreneurial ideas. Participants are paired with a carefully and specifically chosen mentor. The goal is to combine spiritual teachings with concrete business principles. We recognize the bigger picture of personal and spiritual growth. 

Guy Kawasaki, Stephen R. Covey, Jim Collins, James Ritchie, Terry and Mary Pitts. 

James Ritchie felt that Launching Leaders should begin its operation working with young adults in New Zealand, it began in 2011. After that, it began teaching in other parts of the world, including the US. 

Of the most meaninful ideas is the concept that not only it is possible to become sucessful financially while still remaining a spiritually-grounded and loving individual, but that these two goals actually work together in complete symbiosis. It encourages individuals to bury the duplicitous life and begin a new path of success and purpose. 

Proof of Concept: Words From Launching Leaders Participants

• Terry and Mary Pitts, Launching Leaders Founding Members
• Josh Roa, Launching Leaders Alumni; Auckland, New Zealand
• Johnson McKay, Original Mentor for Launching Leaders in New Zealand
• Chelsea Turner, Launching Leaders Alumni; Auckland, New Zealand
• Tu'u Singsam, Launching Leaders Alumni; Auckland, New Zealand

The Abundant Life

It is indeed possible to mantain an honest, upright, and service-oriented lifestyle while also following the dreams of entrepreneurial and financial success, we saw many of our student's mindsets drastically transform. The phrase, "the abundant life", to describe this state of all-around successful living. 

"The abundant life does not consist of a glut of luxury. It does not make itself content with commercially produced pleasure, the nightclub idea of what is a good time, mistaking it for joy and happiness. On the contrary, obedience to law, respect for others, mastery of self, joy in service-these constitute the abundant life". -Thomas S. Monson