Understanding The Leadership Level Where You’re At Your Best

by Jeff Bond

At the core of my work is helping global business, communications, and people leaders create meaningful engagement with their teams and customers. Together with my wonderful colleagues at Chat With Leaders Media and People First Elevation Team, we deliver all-hands meeting support, content, podcasts, creative, cross-cultural training, speaker coaching, and strategic advisory solutions. We are committed to unlocking the power of inclusive storytelling, shared experiences, leadership development, and mixed media to help our clients authentically connect with their most important stakeholders.

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Outside of work, I cherish time with my wife and three children, balancing my roles as a husband and father with my professional life in Atlanta, GA. Let's connect and explore how we can create impactful media solutions for your business.

In this episode, Jeff chats with Joe Yi, EVP at Apogee Financial Partners, about how important it is to build leadership character in our youth, his lessons learned at West Point and active military service, his transition into civilian life as a sales leader, and what he’s learned along the journey about the requirements of a servant leader. In the end, this has helped him realize the importance of knowing where the striving for rank ceases in order to arrive at the leadership level aligned with your giftedness.

About Joe

Joe Yi is the Executive Vice President of Apogee Financial Partners. He leads a team of interdisciplinary specialists to advise the leaders of industry and community. Joe’s clients have been blessed with talent and entrepreneurship that have sourced their wealth and influence. He strives to deliver the best that Apogee has to offer so that his clients may further their high impact in philanthropy, business development, and generational planning.

Joe has been an Atlantan since 1977 when he called Stone Mountain home. Upon graduating from West Point and a stint in the Army, he returned home and married Kae. They now call Alpharetta home where they are active in their church, Alpharetta Rotary, Grace@Work, and Walk to Emmaus communities.

They are blessed with two adult children, Joshua and Jessica, who are aspiring in their own careers.