I have one more post in me from the Global Leadership Summit but before I talk about the points that have stayed with me, I wanted to share an epiphany I had today during our staff orientation for new faces at the office. It’s a week-long activity broken down into thirty-minute sessions from Monday to Friday, ending with a lunch on the last day. The first day, each department gets to introduce themselves and share what we do for the organization and how the new staff will interact with us, if at all.

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The summit made a profound impact on me that to this day, I’m still chewing on the leadership concepts I learned. This, and my health episode, have me in a pensive mood still, the fruits of which only made themselves known this morning as I introduced myself and my department of one.

“(Sending a tweet from my phone) On any given day, this is what you’ll see me doing… sending out tweets and Facebook updates for our organization. I’m the communications department…. Before the Global Leadership Summit, I used to say that I’m responsible for communications within our organization and externally with the public. But since the GLS, I’ve rethought what it is that I do and will now say that I’m our organization’s storyteller. (Nods of approval from colleagues) I basically ensure that the world knows our story: how we’re making a difference through campus ministry, church planting, and on a global scale with world missions, through social networking, email marketing, and blogs.”

I just reinvented my job, gave myself renewed inspiration, and made myself the beginning of an elevator speech all in five minutes.

So that’s what I do. I’m a storyteller.

Have you had any epiphanies lately?