Jerry Bumgarner–Cascade Employers Association, Pacific Life Insurance, Nissan Motor Corporation

Leadership Portraits

Leadership Portraits is a conversation created to inspire the leader in you! In episode seven of Leadership Portraits, Jerry Bumgarner shares with us some very powerful truths about leadership from his career spanning four decades of leadership experience in the corporate world. He also shares about being sexually abused as a child and how this hindered his leadership ability until he was able to find healing. Jerry and his wife Denise live in the Corvallis, OR area and have four grown children.This was an inspiring conversation for me and I hope it will be for you too. Thank you so much for listening and learning! Please share this episode with someone you think will benefit from it! Quotes from This episode: "Deal with your past. Get to the level of growth that you need to, don't wait! If there's pain in your past, you need to deal with it." "Leadership is to facilitate a shared team effort to accomplish a goal." "Love is freedom from self-interest." "Love is demonstrated by asking others for input into decisions and planning." "Leaders seek to create an environment where people like to come to work." "If you're leading, you really have to be transparent. Don't just assume other know you care. Show them!" "Part of a leader's goal is to bring others along with them." Music on this episode of Leadership Portraits is from: www.bensound.com, www.freestockmusic.com, and audioblocks.com