June 05, 2025

Everybody Leads: Growing Your Influence and Impact Regardless of Title or Position

55 minutes

As a self-professed “leadership junkie,” Tim’s journey to understanding what it meant to step up as a leader began thirty years earlier as a young lawyer after he disappointed a boss with an epic failure on a project. The boss challenged Tim (after significant yelling and tough love) by saying that he saw in Tim a strong leader who needed to step up and own his projects, is career, and ambitions. In the three decades since, Tim has studied, read, and grown his leadership skills through hard work, trying novel ideas, failing, learning from the failures, and getting better every day. Along the way, he has seen stories all around him of individuals leading regardless of title, position, background, or circumstances. No matter an individual’s background, race, gender, or ethnic heritage; no matter their education, degree, skill, or talent; no matter if they have made significant life mistakes in their past; no matter if they lead a company of thousands, a group of volunteers at a church, synagogue, or non-profit, are a stay-at-home parent, or a mailroom clerk, leadership is something everyone does every day. It is also something that we can each get better at with effort and focus.

About Guest: Tim Lupinacci

Tim Lupinacci is the CEO and Chair of Baker Donelson, one of the 100 largest law firms in the United States, Tim has faced significant leadership challenges, including turning a $500 million organization from declining profits to record growth, navigating a global pandemic, leading transformative change in a 100+-year-old organization, and maintaining engagement and community in an increasingly remote workforce. As a self-professed “leadership junkie,” Tim’s journey to understanding what it meant to step up as a leader began thirty years earlier as a young lawyer after he disappointed a boss with an epic failure on a project. He has a B.A. in Mass Communication from the University of Montevallo and a J.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Law. Tim has been married to his wife Ellen for thirty-five years and they have a twenty-five-year-old daughter who was married in February 2024. In early 2023, Tim began a non-profit called Everybody Leads, which is focused on bringing basic leadership training to underserved communities (everybodyleads.org). His book, Everybody Leads is being released by Blue Hat Publishing on July 22, 2025. The link to order Everybody Leads is https://bluehatpublishing.com/products/everybody-leads-by-tim-lupinacci. Your listeners can get a discount by using the code TIMLEADS.

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About Christopher Salem

Christopher Salem, the dynamic host of the Sustainable Success Show, has been empowering business leaders, entrepreneurs, and organizations for nearly 8 years. Through thought-provoking weekly content, Christopher delivers actionable insights that inspire growth and sustainable success in today’s ever-evolving marketplace.

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