Leadership Development at Ferguson Leadership
Ferguson Leadership focuses on guiding leaders and shaping legacies.
About Ferguson Leadership
My Background
My Background
My Background
I've been a local church minister for over 30 years. In that role, I've served as a confidant, friend, pastor, and coach, always focused on guiding leaders in our community. I hold a B.A. in Bible and an M.A. in New Testament Preaching, alongside my training at the Institute of Life Coaching. As a Maxwell Certified Leadership Team member, I have certifications in Speaking and Coaching that enhance my ability to shape legacies among those I mentor. Additionally, I am a syndicated columnist with the Mississippi Press Association, published weekly in various Mississippi publications, and I can also be found on Hottytoddy.com and Substack.
My Philosophy
My Background
My Background
I believe everyone has the potential to live a meaningful life. By identifying and working towards their goals, my clients can unlock their full potential and create a life they love. I'm particularly interested in guiding leaders in ways that benefit all. Leadership that seeks to serve is the cornerstone of success for families, organizations, non-profits, churches, and businesses. Through Ferguson Leadership, we can change the way leaders lead and meet challenges head-on, ultimately shaping legacies for future generations.
My Services
My Background
My Services
I offer a range of services through Ferguson Leadership, including keynotes, one-on-one coaching, group coaching, vision casting, and workshops. These services are designed to help clients overcome obstacles, determine their values, improve their mindset, and achieve their goals. By guiding leaders in this journey, we can work together to enhance your leadership skills and change the climate in your company or organization.
The Maxwell Leadership Game is a team-building and development experience designed as a board game, perfect for coaching teams towards value-driven leadership. It focuses on guiding leaders to spark deep conversations that reveal strengths, blind spots, and opportunities for growth, all while promoting service-centered action. This experience not only aids in shaping legacies but is also a Maxwell Certified offering, proudly provided by a veteran-owned business.
Transform Your Life with Ferguson Leadership Coaching
The History of Your Future is a powerful tool for achieving clarity and direction. Whether in a group setting or one-on-one, this exercise and coaching engagement, inspired by Ferguson Leadership, allows you to find and create the answers you desire.
Unlock Your Potential with Ferguson Leadership
Still Standing
“Still Standing” is a keynote born from real adversity and hard-earned leadership lessons. After a personal tragedy reshaped my life, I had to redefine strength, responsibility, and what it means to lead under pressure.
In this message, I share the principles that helped me rebuild:
Lead with honest clarity.
Rise through disciplined daily habits.
Serve by turning pain into purpose.
Leaders leave with a simple framework (STAND) and practical tools to navigate crisis, steady their teams, and move forward.
You don’t have to be unbreakable.
But you must refuse to stay down.
Inspiring Change with Ferguson Leadership
For Organizations, Businesses, and Churches
Why Leadership Is Never Neutral
On October 10, 2011, my life changed forever. What followed didn’t just test my faith — it forced me to rethink leadership.
In Lead Forward, I share what I learned the hard way: leadership shapes more than results. It shapes people. It shapes culture. It shapes who someone becomes under your influence.
This keynote challenges leaders to move from reaction to intention through five practical shifts — clarity, trust, sustainability, and legacy.
Leadership is never neutral. It either builds environments where people grow — or cultures they simply survive.
The question is: which are you creating?
Unlock your potential
Ferguson Leadership can assist you in identifying and overcoming your limiting beliefs, equipping you with the tools necessary to unlock your true potential. As a Maxwell Leadership Certified Team Member, I am licensed to use and teach from a range of resources from John Maxwell that are essential for guiding leaders and shaping legacies, including: Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Learn, How to Work with Complicated People, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, The Leader's Greatest Return, High Road Leadership, and Everyone Communicates, Few Connect, among others.
From the pen of Les Ferguson
As Seen on Amazon
In the aftermath of a double murder, a destroyed family, and a shattered faith, Les Ferguson offers hope to others wrestling with God through a dramatically different study of the Bible’s characters, embodying the principles of Ferguson Leadership. Life happens to us all; when good turns to bad, the journey from bad back to good can seem impossible. In this candid book, Pastor Les Ferguson shares his true story of struggling to believe, not that God existed, but that He cared. The questions of faith and doubt shared in Still Wrestling illustrate Les’s journey through tragedy to a deep, renewed faith, perfectly aligning with the mission of Guiding Leaders in their own struggles. Les approaches God’s word from a perspective entirely different from the average Sunday school book. He guides readers through a study of the Bible’s characters by examining their humanity, seeing their fears, and acknowledging their weaknesses, exploring our own brokenness through the broken characters of God’s Word, ultimately shaping legacies of faith.
