About LDG

“Look for that which is to come and become the leader within that you were born to be.  For we are all leaders… we simply must choose to step into our leadership capacity”

- David

David Bernard-Stevens helps companies, organizations and their employees become the best they can be by finding meaning and purpose in their lives and work. According to David,

“There is a sense throughout the world that to meet the challenges being faced there is a critical need to become better… much better than what we are today. The way to becoming the best lies within their ability to change the mindsets of the entire organization in order for people to find greater meaning and purpose in their lives by working together for a greater good.”

David helps companies, organizations and people make that happen. He helps create new environments within the entire organization which allows for deeper understanding and individual awareness of the whole. David changes the impersonal within companies into meaningful relationships.

He changes people and as a result, they work harder and become more productive not because they have to but because they choose to. And it is here where individuals and teams begin to create that which others felt to be impossible. It is within this environment of relationships, shared vision, personal values and purpose where people make each other and the entire organization great.

In 2009, David decided to take his skills out into the world and has been in Africa for the past year. In Cameron, David worked with 100’s in the workshops he led as a keynote presenter at the first International Vision 2011 Leadership Conference in Yaoundé. He has worked directly with leaders and youth from all over Kenya including youth and groups from Nigeria, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Sudan, and Tanzania. He was also part of the Initiative of Change conference and Rajmohan Gandhi’s Kenya tour. He has done leadership workshops in Seoul South, Korea and will be a lead presenter in the Co-Active Leadership Conference in Tokyo, Japan in November of this year.

David is currently living in Nairobi where he is developing leaders in Kenya and East Africa in partnership with APEX Management Systems – Consultant and Women for Justice in Africa. David has given empowerment and leadership training to such groups as the Ethiopian Ministry of Finance, The Poverty Eradication Commission of Kenya, The Catholic University of East Africa, Initiatives of Change, the Education Center for Women in Democracy, various local NGO’s, and hundreds of youth throughout Kenya and East Africa.

David Bernard-Stevens is a graduate of Bellevue University (USA) with a Masters Degree in Leadership. He was previously selected as one of the top five American Teachers of the Year by the National School Board Association, selected as the state of Nebraska’s best teacher by the Nebraska Department of Education, a State Senator for District #42 in the Nebraska Legislature, a former President of a Chamber of Commerce, and currently President of his own company, Leader Development Group which is currently developing partnerships throughout the world to train new and authentic leaders.

David has been an adjunct professor at Bellevue University, taught within the United States Chamber of Commerce’s National Instititute Program for Business and Organizational Leaders, and is a graduate of the prestigious Coaches Training Institute’s International Co-Active Leadership Program David develops leaders who lead from core values and purpose. He helps people and organizations think in ways that opens the door for new possibilities. David trains people to lead from within their own set of values and purpose in order to build sustainable leadership teams and programs who wish to be the best at what they do. His training creates within people a belief they can create their future and do what others felt to be impossible.

David Bernard-Stevens
President, Leader Development Group
E-mail: David@leaderdevelopmentgroup.com
www.leaderdevelopmentgroup.com
Mobile: (+254) 724 21 8962 or 0724 21 8962