ABOUT MAC LAKE

Mac Lake
Mac is a pioneering influence in the church planting movement. In 1997, he planted Carolina Forest Community Church (Myrtle Beach, South Carolina). In 2004, he began serving as Leadership Development Pastor at Seacoast Church (Charleston, South Carolina) where he served for over six years. In July 2010, Mac Lake joined with West Ridge Church to become the Visionary Architect for the LAUNCH Network. In 2015 Mac begin working with Will Mancini and Auxano to develop the Leadership Pipeline process. He joined Auxano full time in 2018. Mac and his wife, Cindy, live in Charleston, South Carolina and have three children, Brandon, Jordan and Brianna.

4 Habits that Develop Credibility as a Trainer

If you’re trying to develop leaders for your leadership pipeline these four habits will help you stay fresh and teach with passion, which will increase your credibility.

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Are Your Values Adding Value?

A wise leader of any organization will spend significant time thinking through and carefully crafting organizational values.

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Vision + Values = Organizational Strength

You may have a great vision but if the people in your organization don’t operate according to a unified set of core behaviors you will find yourselves unable to move forward in an aligned and productive way.

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The Natural Flow of Leadership Development

There is a guiding principle that every senior leader must pay close attention to if they are serious about building a culture of leadership development.

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5 Elements of an Essential Vision Cast

The words you speak can paint a picture of a new reality, move people to action, enthuse commitment and even drive them to make personal sacrifice for the cause.

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Answering the “What Ifs” of Mentoring Young Leaders

What are you looking for in young leaders? If you’re looking for maturity, perfection, experience, consistency, reliability you may not find it.  But if you look for their strengths, gifts and passion you can develop the other qualities that will one day make them great leaders.

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Don’t Let Fear Sabotage the Development of Your Ministry Leaders

If you wait until you’re the perfect leader then you’ll never take the first step toward developing others.  But if you trust what you have, what you’ve learned and who you are to be used by the Holy Spirit then He can use you to start a leadership development revolution.

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Four Leadership Failures That Will Help Move Your Leadership Development Forward

It may be your failure to tolerate failure that’s causing the failure of your leadership development efforts.

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