After spending over 20 years focusing on developing students and strengthening communities, Ed realized the best way to help future generations was to become an influential leader who impacts those who impact others in the workplace, community, schools, and families. His life mission to transform lives through leadership development, wellness and self-care, and personal growth. As a humble leader, who overcame challenges, setbacks, and other barriers Ed credits his success to his faith, parents, professors, mentors, and coaches for equipping him with the skills and mindset necessary for beating the odds of attaining success.
For more than 25 years, Ed has successfully lead, empowered and coached students, parents, aspiring leaders, professionals, executives, and leadership teams. Ed is an Executive Director with the John C. Maxwell Team were he provides executive coaching, leadership training, and keynotes globally. Driven by his belief that people are the most valuable resources in every organization and that cultivating a culture of leadership is critical to long-term organizational success. His coaching and leadership training focuses on empowering and equipping people to effectively connect with others, stretch beyond their comfort zone, and apply sound wisdom to build their foundation for long-term success. His passion is visible when he is developing leaders of all ages to become creative solution innovators.

Your heart might be telling you that you are not a warrior; that you are no way close to it.

BUT GOD.

He has given each of us a strength that has his DNA. This book of teaching, inspiration, and insights will you help unlock the mighty warrior that is inside of you. Let God awaken the warrior and unlock the gifts that He has bestowed upon you. It's time for you to Rise Up and Step Forth into the journey meant for your ordained purpose.

Join Edward Reed, along with twelve other co-authors, who will lead you through their struggles, pain, and hardship. Find out how their Inner Warrior helped them through the most difficult times.

Fears take on many forms. You’ll see them at work in a CEO’s willingness to risk, a woman’s war with allergies, a boy’s lifelong insecurity, a son’s fear of losing his father, a professional’s search for peace, a young girl’s healing from years of abuses, a boy’s exchange of lost for found, a teenage girl’s transformation from unloved to loved through forgiveness, a leader’s peace found in dependency, a soldier’s victory discovered in surrender, a counselor’s change from career to calling,  a cancer carrier’s message of Hope, and a contractor’s can-do choices. In these pages, find what it takes to begin STEPPING INTO COURAGE! Ed Reed, along with eleven other co-authors, will lead you through their experiences of stepping into courage during difficult times. A truly inspirational read.

You may be feeling it right now as you read this. Overwhelmed and exhausted, you are wondering if you have any more left in you. You feel lost, wondering if you are able to even access that place within you that contains the stamina you need to keep going. Let these stories and devotional thoughts take you through the valley and up to the mountaintop where you can experience the promise of how you can go the distance!

Join Edward Reed, along with thirteen other co-authors, who will lead you through their experiences of struggles and how they endured.

Spark The Fire To Grow Hope In Your Life.

Hope, sometimes we feel like we have an abundant bucket of it and the next it can be like a security blanket ripped out from under us.

From moments in searching for hope to moment of holding on to the very last thread, these stories show how to go through the times where hope doesn’t seem to be there to when God shows up to ignite it once again.

Join Edward Reed, along with fourteen other co-authors, who will lead you through their experiences of struggles and how they found hope.