Christ-centered leaders inspire and encourage their followers to live according to compassion, humility, honesty, and selflessness. They prioritize building positive relationships and promoting a sense of community and strive to create a workplace or organization that is guided by Christian values. 

In this new episode, Life Bridge Management CEO Sutton Turner teaches us about leading with a sense of purpose and meaning that goes beyond individual gain and seeks to positively impact the world.

Key Points From This Episode: 

• How did he get to lead teams in the Middle East?
• What transitions did he experience while working in Arab countries?
• What lessons did he learn from building a management company in the Middle East?
• What is the most important thing for him when leading a company?
• Why did he build Life Bridge Management?
• What are some of the most important metrics that he tracks?
• How does he give back to the community?

Tweetables: 

“To build a culture based on love, which is based on grace, is one of the greatest opportunities that I have at age 53.”

“We try our best to build a healthy culture in the property management business.”

“What you guys started at Life Bridge Capital is a culture of love. And now we're just going to transfer that down, or organization because we love one another.”

“When you have third-party management companies that are on a 30-day cancelable contract, there's no transparency because of fear of losing their job as the property manager. They're not going to be 100% transparent with you.”

“For us to have a culture of love from the very, very top of Life Bridge Capital all the way down to the border at one of our properties in Colorado Springs, the only way to do that is to take over your own management company.”

“And because you trust me, and we built that trust up, it's not like I'm not going to make mistakes. I'm going to make mistakes, actually. But I'm going to tell you my mistakes.”

“I'm trying to give you guys perfect information so that you're able to make the very best investment decision possible.”

Link Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Sutton Turner on Twitter

Sutton Turner on LinkedIn

Life Bridge Management

About Sutton Turner

Sutton Turner is the CEO of Life Bridge Management. He has 30 years of experience in real estate, property management, and C-level roles. Sutton created and led the Wentwood Companies with his brother in 1997, which managed 36 apartment communities across 13 states with over 300 employees. In 2008, Sutton was asked by a major developer (Sorouh/Aldar) in Abu Dhabi to build a property management company called Khidmah (meaning “service” in Arabic). As CEO, Sutton created the first full-service real estate management company in Abu Dhabi, UAE, with $600 million in assets and $1.8 billion under development. A critical element of Khidmah’s success was the recruitment of skilled workers and professionals from the Philippines, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Egypt, and Syria. 

After establishing this management company in Abu Dhabi, Sutton moved on to Doha, Qatar, where he reorganized Qatar’s property management company, Waseef, as CEO.  

Sutton has had two tenures in full-time ministry with Celebration Church (2006-2007) and Mars Hill Church (2011-2014). He is very grateful for the growth through both of these ministry experiences.