Mark Your Calendars!

The 2025 LEADERSHIPLEGACY Experience Harrisonburg with Dove Development & Consulting on Friday, June 13 at James Madison University's Atlantic Union Bank Center will mark TEN years since our founding. Building on the perennially sold out LIVE2LEAD:Harrisonburg Experience, this FULL DAY leadership development experience will equip you to identify YOUR clear and definite purpose for leading a team, provide you with tools for building clarity around the purpose your organization is working to achieve, and walking you through practical steps you can take to help each of your team members connect the purpose that drives them to what they're doing daily to help achieve your organizational purpose - all as we help launch the Harrisonburg Professional Firefighter Foundation's 100 CLUB!

An Exclusive Message from Closing Keynote Speaker, Mark Cole

To formally announce this event, the CEO of Maxwell Leadership cut this message to share as we wrapped up our 10th annual LIVE2LEAD:Harrisonburg Experience at Blue Ridge Community College on Friday, October 4, 2024. Just in case you weren't one of the more than 225 leaders from 75+ organizations who had the chance to be in the room, we wanted to share it here as well!

About Mark:

Mark Cole serves as the CEO of Maxwell Leadership enterprises and has more than 25 years of leadership and team development experience, which uniquely qualifies him to have an integral role and be the champion of the John C. Maxwell legacy.

He is committed to adding value to individual leaders and leadership teams. Mark has experience in both the non-profit and for-profit sectors, and he has led companies through economic challenges, growth barriers, and disconnected team dynamics.

Mark has learned team development from the world’s leading source of expertise: John C. Maxwell.

Mark has worked more closely with John than anyone else in the world and brings exclusive access to John’s real time principles to the Team. Mark delivers time tested leadership principles ranging from personal leadership to multi-corporation leadership. He resources leaders to develop those around them, ensuring teams are working to their highest potential.

LEADING with a CLEAR PURPOSE

Exactly one year after publishing the Amazon #1 Best-Seller, What's KILLING Your Profitability? (It ALL Boils Down to Leadership!), Wes Dove will release his second book, Leading With a Clear Purpose: Steps Every Leader Should Take to Define Their Own Purpose and Provide a Clear Purpose for Everyone on Their Team. From the first time detailing how effective leadership increases productivity and drives profitability, Wes & Cindy Dove saw firsthand how that message resonated with each audience they worked with. Through that work though, they also recognized how critical it is for leaders, as well as every great team member, to tie each thing they do to a purpose that leaves a lasting impact.

The 2025 LEADERSHIP LEGACY Experience: Harrisonburg with Dove Development & Consulting will be geared at helping each attendee identify their own clear purpose for leading a team, crystalizing the clear purpose their organization existing to achieve, and providing tools they can use to help each member of their teams connect their own individual purpose directly to the organization's primary purpose.

Wes & Cindy will open the day with their keynote presentation outlining the importance of Leading With a Clear Purpose. You'll also have the chance to hear from some of Virginia's most effective leaders, detailing how they've been able to build purpose into all that they do. These leaders will be part of three separate panel discussions, focused on each way a leader needs to articulate a clear purpose:

Defining YOUR Clear Purpose for Leading a Team
Providing Your Team with an Understanding of the Clear Purpose the Organization is Working to Achieving
Helping Each Team Member Identify THEIR Own Clear Purpose and Connect That to the Organization's Purpose

Mark Cole with wrap up the day with a keynote covering how he and John Maxwell have worked with organizations and countries around the world to be intentional about building purpose into everything they do.

Guiding You Through The 2025 LeadershipLegacy Experience

Ben Coffman MA, EFO, NRP current serves as Deputy Fire Chief - Emergency Management Coordinator for Frederick County (Virginia) Fire & Rescue. He retired after more than 20 year's service in Fairfax County Fire & Rescue Department. Additionally, Ben serves on the National Capital Region Incident Management Team, traveling to disasters across the nation. He's an occupational cancer survivor, a Badge-to-Badge mentor with the Firefighter Cancer Support Network, a member of the Peer Support Team at Fairfax County Fire & Rescue, and formerly served as the Fire Chief for the City of Livingston Montana Fire & Rescue.

Coffman is a Life Member of Hose Company 4, Inc Volunteer Fire Department in Harrisonburg. A lifelong friend of Wes Dove, Ben started his firefighting journey at just 14 years old with the Timberville (Va) Volunteer Fire Department. Ben has dedicated his life to serving the communities he's been a part of; that has been his reason for LEADING With A CLEAR PURPOSE.

About Wes & Cindy

Wes & Cindy Dove are nationally recognized thought leaders, authors, and trainers with a proven track record of helping organizations in every cross section of industry improve productivity and increase profitability by providing practical tools that supervisors, managers, executives, and owners can apply immediately to build stronger values-based cultures and create a best-in-class leadership environment that attracts great talent and achieves measurable results.

Both Wes and Cindy are Certified Human Behavior Consultants as well as Certified Trainers, Speakers and Coaches through Maxwell Leadership, and Wes holds a professional credential (SHRM-CP) through the Society for Human Resource Management.

Registration Options... (Opening January 1, 2025)

5% of all ticket sales go to the Harrisonburg Professional Firefighters Foundation 100 CLUB, our event COMMUNITY PARTNER.

SUPER Early Bird Registration: $197/person

Available from January 1, 2025 through February 28;
General admission for entire event
Custom event playbook
Networking/Trade Show access
45-day membership to Leading At The Next Level program*** ($75 value)
Signed paperback copy of Leading With a Clear Purpose: Steps Every Leader Should Take to Define Their Own Purpose and to Provide a Clear Purpose for Their Team – ($20 value)

First Responder/Military Registration: $157/person (20% discount; only 100 available)

Available from January 1, 2025 through February 28;
Includes everything detailed in SUPER Early Bird Registration

Early Bird Registration: $227/person

March 1 through April 30;
Includes everything detailed in SUPER Early Bird Registration

General Registration: $247/person

May 1 through June 10; day of registration not available.
Includes everything detailed in SUPER Early Bird Registration

VIP Registration: $397/person (only 150 available - total)

Exclusive Courtside Seating (1st three rows) for the entire event;
Custom event playbook;
VIP area "back stage" access throughout the event;
VIP Lunch Breakout Session with Mark Cole;
180-day membership to Leading At The Next Level program*** ($267 value);
Signed hardback copy of Leading With a Clear Purpose: Steps Every Leader Should Take to Define Their Own Purpose and to Provide a Clear Purpose for Their Team – ($30 value)
Signed copy of John C. Maxwell’s High Road Leadership ($35 value);
All-access pass to 2025 LeadershipLegacy Experience digital program****

***Leading At The Next Level program access granted at the time of registration.

**** The 2025 LeadershipLegacy Experience digital resource will be available separately for all participants and as a stand-alone product publicly; access will be made available when session recordins are finalized. Includes lifetime access to opening keynote and executive panel sessions, access to Mark Cole's closing keynote through 12/13/2025, and other bonus material!

REFUND POLICY: Registration for this event non-refundable. However, registration can be transferred prior to May 31, 2025 by emailing [email protected] and providing the name of the original ticket holder as well as the person who will be attending in your place. We appreciate your understanding!

*Participation in this event serves as acknowledgement that photos will be taken throughout the day and that your image or likeness may be used in marketing materials for future events.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE (All details will be provided to partners and registered attendees by email)

7:30a Doors Open/Check-in Begins
8:30a The 2025 LEADERSHIPLEGACY Experience Harrisonburg with Dove Development & Consulting Begins!
8:45a Leading With a Clear Purpose - Wes & Cindy Dove
9:30a Executive Panel #1
10:45a Executive Panel #2
11:30a Lunch/Trade Show; VIP Breakout Session & Lunch with Mark Cole
1:30p Executive Panel #3
2:30p The Power of Intentionality & Purpose - Mark Cole
3:30p Main event ends
4:00p VIP Partner Dinner with Mark Cole

LEADERSHIPLEGACY Experience: Harrisonburg 1st Responder/Military Registration

20% OFF the Early Bird rate! Only 100 Available thru Feb 28. Must show proof of service.

$157.00 USD

LEADERSHIPLEGACY Experience: Harrisonburg SUPER Early Bird Registration

Don't miss the SURPRISE Bonus! Only available until Feb 28...

$197.00 USD

LEADERSHIPLEGACY Experience: Harrisonburg VIP Registration

VIP Lunch Session with Mark Cole, plus $500 in extras!

$397.00 USD

Our Community Partner

We're extremely excited to partner with the Harrisonburg Professional Firefighters Foundation through The 2025 LEADERSHIPLEGACY Experience Harrisonburg with Dove Development & Consulting to launch a local 100 CLUB, providing businesses with an opportunity to support and sustain an amazing cause. Each organization partnering with us on this event has the opportunity to join as a FOUNDING MEMBER of the 100 CLUB and they'll receive special recognition as part of the event! We'll also be providing everyone who participates with an opportunity to be part of this inaugural process. Additionally, 5% of all ticket sales from this event will go directly to this amazing organization.

Interested in Getting Involved?

If you'd like to have a hand in helping us make the biggest possible impact toward a successful launch of the Harrisonburg Professional Firefighters Association's 100 CLUB, reach out to us directly at [email protected] to discuss options for partnering, trade show booths, or group rates on registration.