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Luigi, tell me about your vision. Let's dive in right to that first. Awesome. Yeah, so as part of

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Eller Executive Education, we have a pretty grand vision, and that is to touch a million lives

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by 2030. And the work we do is we impact the lives of leaders through leadership development

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programs. And so the reason we've cast that vision is that we really want to see the ripple effect

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of the work we do. You know, everything kind of rises and falls out of leadership. And as you work

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with leaders and develop leaders, they're going to impact other people, right? And so by touching

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and impacting the life of one leader, you're really impacting the lives of many. And that's

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what I've seen over the last 11 years working in executive education is that when you make a

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difference in a leader's life, you're really making a difference in many people's lives.

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And so when I say touch, you know, the lives of a million people by 2030, it doesn't mean I'm going

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to train or develop a million individuals. It means that as we do our work with leaders,

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there's going to be that ripple effect and we're going to impact a lot of lives.

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Absolutely. So double down on that with you. I served a mission in Uruguay 19. And one of the

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first little girls I got to meet, she was 14 years old. And she was crying the day before, well, it

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was the day of her sister's baptism and she was supposed to give a talk right in front of people.

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And there was going to be all of probably eight people, 10 people in the audience. But for her,

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it was a huge deal. Right. And so we went aside, we said a prayer together, you know, and I said,

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this is totally up to you. You don't have to do this, you know, but we're here to support you.

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And she gave that she gave that speech, that talk that she had prepared and she did excellent,

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of course, and the radiance right on her face was having done that fast forward several years.

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And she got called to serve a mission in Chile. And, you know, the impact of, you know, well,

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more than 10,000 people in my two years that I got to talk to and work with and help now just went

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global to Chile, right. With her experience and going out and doing that. And so we don't know

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the type of effect that we can have when we work to serve people who are designed to be leaders.

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That's also why I love hosting people like you, Luigi, is there's there's a huge opportunity to

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lift people up and change lives for the better. So I got to ask you, where did your vision come from?

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Yeah. So, you know, it started with someone kind of similar to your story. As a freshman

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at John Curran University, I had a Jesuit priest for second semester class on Greek and Latin

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roots of all types of classes. And because I hadn't done so well in my English course,

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I needed to rush up on my vocabulary. And, you know, it's one of my memories foggy,

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but it was one of these random things where he says, you know, you you're going to probably

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touch 10,000 lives in during your life indirectly, whether you know it or not. You know, just kind of

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one of these bold statements. And, you know, it's just one of those things that stops you in your

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tracks and, you know, makes you reflect. And it's like, what is he trying to say here? And as I

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reflected on that statement, you know, it you know, the immediate answer in my mind was,

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well, I certainly want that to be for the good. Right. I want that to be for the good. And I want

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to learn how to influence people positively. I want to learn how to be, you know, a better person. And

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my driving question throughout my college degree, it was a humanities degree. I was influenced by

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the Jesuits was, what does it mean to be human in the world today? And that was my exploration

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question throughout, you know, my time there. And, you know, that was part of the question is,

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who will I be and how will I influence others and who am I influenced by? Who will I associate with?

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Who will I become? And as I've gotten in the leadership development, it's, you know, the

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question has evolved into what does it mean to be a leader in the world today? And what do we need

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to do to prepare leaders and become better leaders? Being influenced by the Jesuits, you know, I've

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become an educator. They're one of, you know, they're some of the best educators in the world.

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And one of their pillars is to develop leaders. And so I've learned a lot from them and I've carried

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their ethos, if you will, into the world with me, wherever I've gone.

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That's amazing. And I love, I love the teacher's attitude on that. We, we share something in

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common with that. You mentioned struggling in English class. I struggled in every class.

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I had, I was projected to probably have a 0.24 GPA. And my international politics teacher ended

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up giving me a C even though I did not turn in the midterm paper, I did not go to the final exam and

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I didn't turn in the final paper. And he looks at me and he goes, Jackson, if you want to change a

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nation, educate a mom. And that hit everything within me. When he said that, he said, I'm going

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to change everything within me. When he said that years later, I heard Steve Jobs, at least in the

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movie, Jobs said, we're going to make an, we're going to make a dent in the universe. My thought,

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Luigi was as soon as I heard it, I thought I do that every day. Right. We have such a big ripple

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effect as visionaries. Right. We have so many lives that we can touch and no, we don't comprehend it.

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We can't see it, but it's there, you know, and as we show up, right, there's such an opportunity.

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So all you visionaries listening in, my opportunity is to invite you like step into the game,

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come and join us on episodes. So Luigi, what's your, what's your why? Why does all this matter to you?

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Why? Yeah, my why is I want to, you know, I want to bring out the best in other people.

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I've had so many folks do that with me and for me. As I said, you know, starting with the Jesuits

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and mentors and colleagues. And, you know, I like to say that along the way, I found a way to make

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my life, my work life, my life work. And that's been about helping bring out the best in others.

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That's the work I do. That's my why. That's what I get up every day to do in the work that I do,

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whether it's my team that I work with, whether it's the people that I serve with educational

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programs, development programs, coaching. It's always about bringing out the best in them,

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getting them to realize, you know, their talents, their gifts, their abilities, support, encourage,

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coach them. You know, my why is about, you know, living, living life to the fullest.

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Thank you for being here today. I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live. I'm looking

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forward to seeing your reactions as these episodes continue to move forward. This is going to get

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more and more fun. We'll have more and more engagement as well. We'll invite people to

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participate in the show and thank you for giving us your time and attention. Have an excellent time

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building out your vision and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.