Can you explain the purpose of your business, mission or life dreams in a single sentence? Leadership expert, John Baldoni believes that a strong leader can turn good intentions into powerful results.

Whether you are an executive, business owner or parent, leadership abilities play an important role in your life. Today, we are going to discuss leading with purpose to create the outcome that you envision for the future of your organization, family and life mission.

John Baldoni is an internationally recognized leadership consultant, coach, speaker and author of several books, his latest book being Lead with Purpose: Giving your organization reason to believe in itself.

In 2010 for the second consecutive year, he was named one of the world's top 25 leadership experts by Top Leadership Gurus International. And, in 2010, Leadership Gurus International ranked John No. 12 on its list of global leadership gurus.

As a recognized global thought leader, John's executive coaching helps managers to achieve positive results by focusing on communication, influence, motivation and supervision. John specializes in leadership presence, which he defines as "demonstrating earned authority." John's coaching clients including Fortune 1000 companies as well as non-profits.

John is a regular online contributor to CBSi/BNET, Bloomberg/Businessweek, and Harvard Business Review. John's columns have appeared in the online versions of FastCompany, Forbes, Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post well as Leader to Leader and the Wharton Leadership Digest.

Make sure to check out Marla's interview with John at Inc. Magazine on-line!