The Work of the Tools – Guest Post by Brother James Hailey
"My sincere hope is that in the end others will find reflection on my life as a worthy endeavor and will conclude that there was something about how I treated them and lived my life--that the...
A Mason Develops Daily
Dr. John Maxwell in his book, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, describes in the Law of Process, that becoming a leader cannot be accomplished by attending an event, a seminar or workshop. A...
Lodge (is) Education
I know I’ve written about this before, expressed my opinion in workshops many times, and one day I was so frustrated I wrote (and never published) a “Lodge Education Manifesto.” I have read various...
A Look At 500 years of Masonic Words
This morning I was reading a blog post from Seth Godin, marketing guru, thought producer, writer, and a great innovator. Seth displayed a graph from Google's Ngram Viewer. The Ngram Viewer lets you...
A New Mason Encounters a Group of Past Masters
Sean was excited. It was the night of his lodge meeting, and it would be the first time he would be attending after being made a Master Mason in the latest Grand Master’s One Day Class. He stopped...
Be Remarkable – You Won’t Be Ignored!
Yesterday was Steve Martin’s 75th birthday. Happy belated birthday Steve! His comedy routine with the arrow through his head has always been one of my favorites. It’s spontaneous, wacky, and makes...
Thoughts on Being Good Masonic Citizen
As the unrest, the protests, and the seemingly endless display of divisive rhetoric and behavior envelop us all, I have been asking myself, “what should our behavior be as Masons in response?” I...
Zoomasonry – “Could this be real life or just a fantasy?”
Bob Clark glanced at the clock and noticed it was time to begin his usual preparation for lodge tonight. He chuckled to himself that “usual” won’t entirely be usual tonight. He...
Are You Ready for a “Great Masonic Reset?”
A couple of weeks ago I asked the question whether your lodge would reset to a new normal when the conditions allow it to meet again. If you missed the post you can read it here. After I wrote the...
Will Your Lodge Reset to a New Normal?
It is refreshing to see during this time of crisis lodges using whatever means to connect with their Brethren. They are not only using conventional means such as phone calls and letters but...
Mike Clevenger, PM, New England Lodge #4
Mike Clevenger is the originator and facilitator for Masons Lead Better, a personal and leadership development program initiated by the Grand Lodge of Ohio in 2015.
He is a founding partner of the John Maxwell Team an international organization of coaches, trainers and speakers founded by Dr. John C. Maxwell and also a founding partner of The Deeper Path Team founded by Kary Oberbrunner, an international group of coaches who help individuals find their true passion in life and create a path to achieve it. Mike has served on the Shriners Leadership Development Team since 2005.
Over the past twenty years, Mike has been delivering the message to the Masonic Fraternity of the value of personal leadership development and the power of creating an organizational culture of effective leaders.
Mike is a Past Master of New England Lodge No. 4, F&AM Worthington, Ohio, Past Potentate of Aladdin Shriners in Columbus, Ohio, a member of the York and Scottish Rite bodies, Order of Eastern Star and a senior DeMolay. He has been married to his wife Luanne for 46 years and has a son Wade, who lives in Annapolis Maryland with his lady Chelsea and their daughter Etta Shea.
Contact Mike: mike@masonsleadbetter.com.
Why I do this…
I enjoy creating for others an atmosphere of leadership learning that improves the individual, inspires creative thinking, and produces outstanding, imaginative leaders for Masonic organizations.