PRESENTS
GET IN THE GAME!
LEADING WITH A CLEAR PURPOSE
The 2025 LeadershipLegacy Experience
 Friday, June 13, 2025
Atlantic Union Bank Center
JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY
HARRISONBURG, VA
LEADING WITH A CLEAR PURPOSE
It's Time to Take Your Leadership to a Whole New Level!
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A WORD FROM OUR KEYNOTE SPEAKER, MARK COLE
You and Your Team Are Invited to Take Part in this Game-Changing Leadership Experience
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The 2025 LEADERSHIPLEGACY Experience with Dove Development & Consulting will mark TEN years since our founding!
Building on the 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,
- Empower you with 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!
Ready for a Game-Winning Experience?
The 2025 LEADERSHIPLEGACY Experience 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, CEO of Maxwell Leadership, 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.
GET YOUR TICKETS »MEET YOUR SPECIAL GUEST
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
MARK COLE
CEO MAXWELL LEADERSHIP
CLOSING KEYNOTE SPEAKER
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 authority on leadership and professional development: 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. He delivers time-tested leadership principles ranging from personal leadership to multi-corporation leadership, as he resources leaders to develop those around them, ensuring teams are working to their highest potential.
MEET YOUR HOSTS & KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
WES DOVE & CINDY DOVE
THOUGHT LEADERS, AUTHORS, SPEAKERS
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.
MEET YOUR HOST & EMCEE
BEN COFFMAN
Ben currently 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, Virginia 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.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Here is what's in store when you get in the game and
meet us on the court!
7:30a - Doors Open/Check In Begins
8:30a - Welcome & Opening Remarks
8:45a - Leading With a Clear Purpose Keynote
9:30a - Executive Panel #1
10:45a - Executive Panel #2
11:30a - General Admission - Lunch & Expo
11:30a - VIP Ticket Holders - Lunch with Mark Cole
1:30p - Executive Panel #3
2:30p - Keynote: Mark Cole, Maxwell Leadership
3:30p - Closing Remarks
4:00p - VIP Partners - Dinner with Mark Cole
Your Ticket Purchase Supports the Harrisonburg Firefighters Foundation, Our Community Partner!
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We're extremely excited to partner with the Harrisonburg Professional Firefighters Foundation through The 2025 LEADERSHIPLEGACY Experience 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 MEMBERÂ 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.
READY TO GET IN THE GAME? GET YOUR TICKETS HERE!
Take advantage of SUPER EARLY BIRD pricing, now through February 28.
PLUS! 5% of all ticket sales go to the Harrisonburg Professional Firefighters Foundation 100 CLUB,
our event COMMUNITY PARTNER.
VIP EXPERIENCE
ALL STAR PASS
$397
COURTSIDE SEATING & VIP LUNCH WITH MARK COLE + OVER $500 IN BONUSES!
BUY NOWCHECK OUT THE VENUE... LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION!
Join us at the Atlantic Union Bank Center!
645 University Blvd, Harrisonburg, VA 22801
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Atlantic Union Bank Center
The Atlantic Union Bank Center, home of the James Madison University men’s and women’s basketball programs, is the preeminent facility of its kind in all of Virginia!
We are excited to host the 2025 LEADERSHIPLEGACY Experience in such an all-star facility. You'll definitely be inspired to Get in the Game!
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FAQs
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