Aug 19, 2026 · 29 min · 12 segments
Organizations can have vision, resources, and opportunity—and still be held back because they do not have enough leaders ready to take responsibility. In this episode, David Ashcraft explains why…
David AshcraftGuest
Whitney PutnamHost
And so this is the GLN coming up and saying, hey, we're going to help churches.
David, I've gotten I've gotten it's been so fun to get to see you process and really come up with, hey, what is the framework? How does this actually get built? And I know over time you've said this is the way this is how people really actually get to develop leaders within their culture of their organizations.
And can I also say, Whitney, real quick, for somebody that may be doubting, is leadership really the number one need? Because we go to conferences, you come to the summit, you go to so many different places looking for either leadership skills or ideas or thoughts about how to spark your organization and move it forward.
The problem is you may have a great idea, but if you don't have the leaders to implement the idea, you go nowhere.
And I was with an organization called nine months ago in the very setting where they had opportunity to scale and add six new locations.
And that's been... validated with all the business leaders that I talk with, they're saying the exact same thing.
So as we've looked at it and stepped back and said, okay, what are the ingredients to help build a culture that really begins to raise the capacity of leaders? And the first piece, I've just said there's kind of five words, Whitney, that I use to describe what it looks like to build that culture.
And so this is the GLN coming up and saying, hey, we're going to help churches.
David, I've gotten I've gotten it's been so fun to get to see you process and really come up with, hey, what is the framework? How does this actually get built? And I know over time you've said this is the way this is how people really actually get to develop leaders within their culture of their organizations.
And can I also say, Whitney, real quick, for somebody that may be doubting, is leadership really the number one need? Because we go to conferences, you come to the summit, you go to so many different places looking for either leadership skills or ideas or thoughts about how to spark your organization and move it forward.
The problem is you may have a great idea, but if you don't have the leaders to implement the idea, you go nowhere.
And I was with an organization called nine months ago in the very setting where they had opportunity to scale and add six new locations.
And that's been... validated with all the business leaders that I talk with, they're saying the exact same thing.
So as we've looked at it and stepped back and said, okay, what are the ingredients to help build a culture that really begins to raise the capacity of leaders? And the first piece, I've just said there's kind of five words, Whitney, that I use to describe what it looks like to build that culture.
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