📩 BUILDING RESILIENCE NEWSLETTER 💡 “Lead by Serving: The Competitive Advantage of 2025”
Jose Angel Pereira Ruimwyk
Leadership Coach & Motivational Speaker | Helping C-Suite & Entrepreneurs Connect Success & Fulfillment | Author of 'From Hero to Villain' | Former Citgo Petroleum CEO | 5-Year International Hostage Survivor.
📝 Description:
As part of our 5-Week Building Resilience Series, this week we shine a spotlight on a leadership style that’s transforming teams, cultures, and companies across the globe—Servant Leadership.
In this upcoming episode, I sit down with leadership expert and CEO Tara LaFon Gooch, MBA, CVP 🎤 to explore how putting people first isn’t just a leadership philosophy—it’s a competitive advantage.
Tara brings powerful insight into how servant leadership builds trust, drives engagement, and creates high-performing, purpose-driven teams.
📅 This episode airs Monday, April 14 at 8 AM CT on LinkedIn Live, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.
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🔍 1️⃣ What Is Servant Leadership & Why It Matters
Servant leadership flips the traditional model on its head: the leader serves the team—not the other way around.
It’s about listening first, leading with empathy, and creating an environment where people can grow, thrive, and succeed.
Today’s best leaders are those who empower others to lead.
💬 2️⃣ Prioritize People Over Power
Tara explains how real influence doesn’t come from authority—it comes from service.
Servant leaders lead through mentoring, modeling, and supporting—not through pressure or position.
Daily Practice: Start every meeting by asking, how can I serve you today?
🚀 3️⃣ Actively Support Your Team’s Growth
Growth isn’t just about metrics—it’s about investing in your people.
Tara highlights the importance of coaching, training, recognition, and wellbeing.
Leadership Habit: Create space for weekly one-on-one check-ins to support both professional and personal growth.
🧠 4️⃣ Lead with Humility
One of Tara’s most powerful messages: humility multiplies impact.
Great leaders are open to feedback, admit their mistakes, and give others the spotlight.
Tip: Regularly invite your team to offer feedback on your leadership—then act on it.
🌱 5️⃣ Create a Culture of Empowerment
Servant leadership isn’t just about what you do—it’s about what you model and multiply.
When leaders serve, teams step up.
Cultures built on trust, respect, and empathy foster loyalty, innovation, and long-term success.
🎤 CASE STUDY: Service That Scales
Tara shares how one small act of intentional leadership—taking time to truly listen to a frustrated employee—shifted a team’s entire energy. Within weeks, that employee became one of the top performers, inspired simply by being seen and heard. Service unlocks performance.
👥 GUEST SPOTLIGHT:
🎙 Tara LaFon Gooch, MBA, CVP 🎤 – CEO, speaker, and executive leadership coach helping organizations transform through servant-led culture. Tara’s message: “You don’t need power to lead—you need purpose and heart.”
🔔 CALL TO ACTION:
🎧 Don’t miss this week’s episode: “Lead by Serving: The Competitive Advantage of 2025” 📅 Streaming Monday, April 14th at 8 AM CT 📡 Watch on LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok
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🔚 Final Thought:
In 2025 and beyond, people won’t follow leaders because they have to—they’ll follow because they feel seen, supported, and empowered. Servant leadership isn’t soft. It’s smart, strategic, and sustainable. Let’s keep building resilient leaders, one act of service at a time.
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About Jose Pereira
Jose Pereira, a former oil company executive with thirty-five years of experience and the former CEO of Citgo Petroleum, was unjustly detained and held captive in Venezuela as a member of the CITGO6, a group of six Americans employed by Citgo.
His wrongful captivity, based solely on his American nationality, lasted for 1,775 days, from November 21, 2017, to October 1, 2022.
Since returning from his five-year detention, Pereira has reconnected with his family and written his memoir. He stands up for Americans unlawfully detained overseas and strives to modify US laws concerning these crimes.
Pereira continues to leverage his experiences living and working in multiple countries to engender compassion in individuals of all ethnicities and across all cultural and political considerations to bring hostages home.
He empowers others to make positive changes in the world as he works to re-acclimate to society and is passionate about joining his voice with others intent on raising awareness.
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💡 Pereira's book "From hero to Villain"
It is a riveting account of the events leading up to and during the imprisonment of the CITGO6. Notably, during most of his detainment, Pereira and his wife engaged in a death-defying act reminiscent of Anne Frank secreting her diary from the Nazis. They smuggled letters to each other, which boosted his morale to keep living another day and inspired this book upon release. These carefully written words served as a vital resource for Pereira in outlining his memoir. The determination and bravery embodied by him and his wife in preserving these letters under such punishing duress add a remarkable layer of depth to Pereira’s story.
When you read his accounts, you are there with him in the gritty cell, enduring the agony of fellow prisoners, then finally rejoicing when he hears the news he is going home.
Pereira’s story has since evolved into a movement: changing the narrative of what it takes to bring the wrongfully detained home. This is a work unlike any other. The advent of critical change is making a difference not only in the lives of prisoners; it is transforming global politics around these cases. Sometimes, it is the quietest voice that influences and alters our trajectory. Also in the works: a guidebook providing recommendations to returning detainees to enable their successful reintegration into society—the only publication of its kind.
💡 If you want to know more about of the book, go book web page here
:FROM HERO TO VILLAIN-THE TRUE STORY OF THE CITGO6
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3moThanks for sharing. Love the statement Humility multiplies impact. I am a big believer that servant leaders create more leaders on there team.
Exited founder turned CEO-coach | Helping early/mid-stage startup founders scale into executive leaders & build low-drama companies
4moExcited for Monday's talk. Servant leadership truly builds stronger teams and lasting success. Will definitely tune in.