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... Doug’s call, experience and giftings clearly position him as a trusted resource who brings fatherly wisdom and broad expertise to the organizations and leaders he chooses to invest into. He has a proven track record of fruitful ministry and an impeccable integrity to match.
An organization or leader who opts to draw from Doug Fike’s wellspring of gifts and wisdom is fortunate and blessed.
... If you're considering engaging Doug in his capacity as an Executive Coach and Mentor, you will find no one on earth more capable of helping you connect with God's unique design for your life and then equip you with the tools to steward each and every opportunity for growth and transformation in the process of living your life to the fullest.
All my interactions with Doug Fike have awakened hope and freedom and joy. His passion to see people thrive encourages new growth, new confidence, new insights, new resolve and new faith. Doug continually stimulates expectation for a vitally alive future, all delivered with humor and humility ...
I’m humbled and honored to have been able to know and spend some time with Doug Fike. His humility, insight, and understanding in the matters of life and leadership are unmatched. I'm a better person because of the time I've spent with him ...
Doug has this homing instinct to identify the underlying principles in a situation, but he always manages to apply these “givens” with warmth and a deep understanding of the uniqueness of people. His depth of experience walking with leaders has given him incredible flexibility in style and an eye for high-impact, real-life application ...
I've often called Doug Fike "Exponential Man" in my mind. He's always hunting and gathering: paradigms, frameworks, organizing principles, insights and intuitive leaps.
... I hunger for wisdom and insight, to be a useful older woman. Which is one of the reasons why I’ve built regular interaction with Doug and Charlene Fike into my routine life rhythms.
... It's easy to “value people” in a real but very vague way. Before I met Doug I would have told you that people were my first priority, but I wasn't really living that out. He's helped me really make that true in my life in a practical and powerful way.
... Doug has been through the trenches of organizational matters and knows where leaders live and suffer and die. He’s high voltage without being disrespectful of the particular dynamics of the group he’s resourcing. We loved him and his team, and have begun to point many leaders and churches to this wonderfully unique resource.
I have not encountered, in my own twenty years serving civic, religious and academic leaders in my world (Latin and North America) a more incisive, intuitive, creative and compassionate student and teacher of leadership. Doug's insights about leaders are matched by an unusual instinct about what organizations should do as they both prepare for or catch up with inevitable transitions ...