Jude Rake is the founding principal at JDR Growth Partners, a firm that helps leaders, boards of directors and family business owners thrive by preserving what made them successful while driving the change needed to achieve their full potential. Before founding JDR, Jude served in multiple C-level roles including CEO for eleven years. In each of these roles he built and led successful leadership teams that fueled significant improvements in workforce engagement, teamwork, accountability and results. He has been recognized for leadership, creativity and marketing excellence including Clio, Mobius, and Effie awards, and he received the Burnham award for innovation. He also was named a Top 100 Marketer twice by Advertising Age.For four decades, Jude has been an eager student of leadership, and he has been fortunate to work with several outstanding leaders. He believes that leadership is both art and science, and that it can be learned. Jude connects with leaders at all levels of an organization, leveraging his blue-collar roots, his sports and coaching background, and his breadth of experience across a wide range of industries and corporate functions from factory line worker, engineer, and marketer to CEO and Board Director. His strategic planning workshops, 1:1 coaching sessions, and keynote speeches are engaging and actionable.Jude is the author of The Bridge to Growth: How Servant Leaders Achieve Better Results, And Why It Matters Now More Than Ever, in which he provides a blueprint of nine proven leadership principles he used to build high performance teams that improved the financial performance of several businesses by moving workforces from disengaged to enthusiastically committed to winning. Each leadership principle is articulated using real-world success models that bring each principle to life, and he provides useful tools and tips for leaders at all levels of an organization. You can learn more at www.thebridgetogrowth.com.