The Building Champions Leadership Development Blog
Drawing upon their decades of leadership experience—and the hundreds of conversations they have each week with leaders across the country—our team of coaches deliver insights, strategies, and tips to help you improve how you lead and live.

Resilience to Results with Vision-Driven Leadership
If you're in the mortgage business and have been for at least the past three to five years, you're a working, practical definition of resilience. It's no surprise to anyone that the market fluctuates with respect to real estate in general, and the mortgage business in particular. We've all become accustomed to those fluctuations. However, the severity of those fluctuations, in recent years, has redefined market volatility.

Developing Your Leadership Resilience
Uncertainty is now a permanent feature of the workplace—economic shifts, new technologies, and evolving ways of doing business demand increased strength, endurance, and flexibility from today’s leaders. And the leaders who thrive during challenging seasons are those with leadership resilience. In this article, we share four practices for you to develop to build the type of resilience required in modern leadership.

The Opportunity of Challenge
Change has become the most reliable constant in the workplace—economic swings, technological disruptions, international conflict, and evolving employee needs can leave even seasoned leaders feeling unsteady. Yet disruption isn’t always negative. It creates opportunity for change, allowing for refinement in the way we think, work, and lead. And when we choose to view adversity as more than an obstacle to overcome, we can begin to see challenge as an asset rather than a liability.
In this article, discover how challenge fosters growth, strengthens leadership resilience, and builds the steady, effective leadership that teams need in uncertain times.

4 Steps to Improve Your Executive Thinking
Executive thinking is a critical leadership skill that helps you make smarter decisions, guide your organization through complexity, and lead with clarity. In high-stakes environments, even seasoned executives can fall into thinking patterns that limit their effectiveness—especially without fresh perspectives, new inputs, or disciplined habits. Improving executive thinking means elevating the way you lead yourself so you can better empower others and move your organization forward.
In this article, you’ll learn four proven steps to sharpen your executive thinking and become the kind of leader people want to follow.