Press Release: Panama launches the Country Transformation Initiative

Dr. John C. Maxwell and the team from the Maxwell Leadership Foundation visits Panama from July 23-26. 

The Maxwell Leadership Foundation’s mission is to grow leaders to transform their world. We are doing it one community, school and country at a time. 

The Maxwell Leadership Foundation’s Country Transformation Initiative partners with heads of state and the top leaders of countries to introduce a movement of transformation. Together, we develop and deploy values through the Transformation Tables’ methodology. The impact is that leaders at all levels increase their leadership lid, and existing transformation efforts are enhanced through a process that measures and addresses critical outcomes. Then transformation is multiplied through continuous communication and collaboration to create powerful, positive change. 

In 2013, the Maxwell Leadership Foundation began a Country Transformation Initiative in Guatemala with such success that Paraguay, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, and Papua New Guinea soon followed. After more than three million people have been reached in these nations with tangible positive change in all spheres of influence, the Maxwell Leadership Foundation and their strategic ally in Panama, the Panama Lidera Foundation, are now taking steps to do the same. 

To mark the launch of the transformation initiative, on July 22, 2023, in conjunction with Dr. Maxwell’s live events, 140 Maxwell Leadership Certified coaches from more than 15 countries will arrive in Panama. They will train 8,000 facilitators from 600+ organizations over three days. These facilitators will then spearhead the values-based transformation initiative that has been a success in previous countries. 

For more information you can go to maxwellleadership.org/panama or https://www.panamalidera.org/.

About Dr. John C. Maxwell
John C. Maxwell is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, coach, and speaker who has sold more than 30 million books in fifty languages. He has been identified as the #1 leader in business by the American Management Association® and the most influential leadership expert in the world by Business Insider and Inc. magazine. He is the founder of The John Maxwell Company, The John Maxwell Team, EQUIP, and the John Maxwell Leadership Foundation, organizations that have trained millions of leaders from every country of the world. A recipient of the Horatio Alger Award, as well as the Mother Teresa Prize for Global Peace and Leadership from the Luminary Leadership Network, Dr. Maxwell speaks each year to Fortune 500 companies, presidents of nations, and many of the world’s top business leaders. 

“The most powerful ripple in any room belongs to the person who chooses to serve, not the person who is seen.”

— John C. Maxwell, Founder

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