A New Way to See the Mission
August invites us to look beyond business as usual. As we prepare for Rise to Greatness, we are exploring how truth, better questions, and a Moneyball mindset can help leaders recognize the value that conventional measures often miss.
August in Perspective
Great Leadership Begins by Seeing the Whole Field
Leaders are surrounded by information: financial results, market signals, performance indicators, expectations, and urgent decisions. But more information does not automatically produce greater wisdom. The deeper challenge is learning to distinguish what is visible from what is truly valuable.
That is the thread connecting our work this August. Rise to Greatness asks how truth can guide a life. The Moneyball comparison asks whether we are measuring the things that actually move the mission forward.
Together, they offer a powerful invitation: question familiar assumptions, look beneath conventional scoreboards, and lead from a clearer understanding of what truly matters.
August Spotlight: Rise to Greatness
September’s Rise to Greatness Executive Forums will bring leaders together for a timely conversation about truth—not simply as an idea, but as a principle that shapes decisions, relationships, responsibility, and legacy.
Rise to Greatness is designed for C-suite leaders, executives, investors, entrepreneurs, and educators who want more than business as usual.
The experience combines meaningful networking with a dynamic panel discussion featuring perspectives from business, education, public affairs, investment, and community leadership.
The central question is both personal and practical: How do you recognize truth—and how do you allow it to guide your decisions and actions?
In-person location:
University of Dallas
Satish & Yasmin Gupta College of Business, SB Hall
1845 E. Northgate Drive, Irving, TX 75062
Four Perspectives, One Essential Question
The panel brings together leaders whose experience spans education, public affairs, human capital, entrepreneurship, professional sports, investment, and civic life.
Kelby G. Woodard
Former President and CEO of the Cristo Rey Network. His experience connects mission-driven education, public service, business, faith, and the creation of opportunity for young people.
Sarah Jackson
Vice President of Government Relations and Public Affairs for the Texas Region at Fidelity Investments, with extensive experience connecting business, government, civic engagement, and philanthropy.
Tad McIntosh
Founder and President of HumCap. His leadership reflects a conviction that people are an organization’s greatest asset and that sustainable growth depends on building the right human infrastructure.
Chris Valletta
Operating Partner at Sounder Partners, former NFL athlete, and four-time entrepreneur whose work brings together teamwork, resilience, service, business, faith, and purpose.
The Moneyball Lens
The story of Moneyball changed baseball by questioning the assumptions behind the traditional scoreboard. Instead of accepting conventional wisdom, its leaders searched for overlooked indicators that contributed more directly to winning.
What If the Traditional Scoreboard Is Incomplete?
Moneyball did not change the objective of the game. It changed the way leaders identified the people and actions most likely to achieve it.
The same question can transform a business or mission: are we rewarding what is familiar and visible, or are we recognizing what actually produces meaningful impact?
Explore Moneyball Strategy →Two Ways to Read the Scoreboard
What Businesses Usually Measure
Revenue, growth, productivity, market share, and efficiency are important. But when they become the only measures of success, leaders can miss the people, behaviors, relationships, and principles that make meaningful performance possible.
A number can tell us what happened. It cannot always tell us why it matters or what kind of organization we are becoming.
What Might We Be Overlooking?
The Moneyball lens encourages a different kind of observation. Which behaviors strengthen trust? Which decisions protect human dignity? Which relationships multiply impact? Which activities actually move people and the mission forward?
The goal is not to measure everything. It is to recognize and reinforce what produces the outcomes the mission exists to create.
From Movie Insight to Mission Strategy
Applying the Moneyball comparison to a mission-driven organization does not mean reducing people to statistics. It means using better evidence to see people, contribution, and impact more clearly.
Clarify the Mission
Define the change the organization exists to create—not only the activities it performs or the revenue it earns.
Challenge Assumptions
Examine whether today’s metrics reward mission progress or simply reinforce familiar habits and conventional definitions of success.
Recognize Hidden Value
Identify the choices, people, relationships, and behaviors that consistently create meaningful and repeatable impact.
Where Truth and Strategy Meet
Better Measures Still Require a Clear Moral Compass
Moneyball demonstrates the power of challenging assumptions and finding better information. Rise to Greatness takes the conversation one step deeper by asking what should guide the use of that information.
Data can reveal patterns, but truth helps leaders determine what those patterns mean, whose interests must be considered, and which actions are worthy of pursuit.
Strategy without truth can become efficient but misdirected. Truth without disciplined execution can remain an aspiration.
Integrated leadership brings both together: the courage to see reality clearly and the character to respond wisely.
Rise Above Business as Usual
Join leaders from across business, education, investment, and civic life for a conversation designed to challenge conventional thinking and strengthen the way you use truth to lead your life.
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