Meet Drs. Phillip & Janice Porter

We recently connected with Drs. Phillip & Janice Porter and have shared our conversation below.

Drs. Phillip & Janice, we’re thrilled to have you on our platform and we think there is so much folks can learn from you and your story. Something that matters deeply to us is living a life and leading a career filled with purpose and so let’s start by chatting about how you found your purpose.
We found our purpose unexpectedly after we wrote our second book “The Power in A Vision Driven”. The reason we wrote this book is because, for many years prior, people kept asking us how our family started a family business, got over 30 family members from 3 generations to invest their time and money into the business and not break the family apart. In 2016, we decided to answer this question and more by writing a book titled “The Power in A Vision Driven Family: The Journey to A Generational Vision”. We gave a copy of the book to our pastor. After reading the book, our pastor asked us to conduct a “Vision Driven Family Workshop” at our church. The workshop pushed us to create and publish a workbook with the same title “The Power in A Vision Driven Family Workbook: Journey to A Generational Vision”. The workshop was extremely successful and surpassed our expectations. This one workshop propelled us to conduct more workshops, webinars and now online courses that are available on demand worldwide. As a result of conducting successful workshops, webinars and selling books, we started The Global Family Success Institute (GFSI) which is a division of our family business Generations Empowerment Enterprises, LLC.

We now have a class called “Where Can I Find My Purpose? This class will give you eight places to begin searching for your purpose. This is a very popular online class.

Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?
We are co-founders of Generations Empowerment Enterprises, LLC a privately held African American family-owned business, which expanded by adding the Global Family Success Institute Division. Collectively, we have over 50 years of leadership, education, business, and training experience. We have successfully educated, mentored, inspired, and provided proven tools and resources to individuals, families, and family-owned businesses to help families achieve their goals and dreams. This is accomplished via our commitment and passion for empowering and transforming families by using a proven interactive family-focused wealth-building curriculum and soft skills online training, webinars, workshops/conferences, and one-on-one coaching.

Vision Statement: To be a leading global educational institution that educates, trains, and coaches family enterprises, students, and community leaders in practical principles to balance family traditions, relationships, business, and ownership needs in a safe learning environment.

Mission Statement: To partner with educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and experienced professionals with an EdTech platform by providing our trusted online adult education courses to families and students worldwide.

We are very excited about the following major achievements:

Partnership with West Coast Bible College & Seminary (WCBCS): We have partnered with West Coast Bible College & Seminary and launched The Porter Family School of Continuing Education to provide the following courses:
• Certification in Family Success
• The Five Pillars for Financial Literacy Success
• The Four Steps to Successful Partnerships & Collaborations
• The Ten Strategies for Marriage & Relationship Success (coming soon)
• Heirs Property Probate Readiness (coming soon)

To register for our courses at WCBCS, go to https://westcoastbc.org/the-porter-family-school-of-education.

The implementation of our 5-Step Vision Driven Family Success Program: Are you having a challenge bringing your family together for the purpose of building wealth? Are you looking for a step-by-step program designed to build generational wealth? If yes, our 5-Step Vision Driven Family Success Program is for you and your family. This program is for those individuals, families, and like-minded people who are serious about achieving their goals & dreams. The 5-Steps include:
1. Family Education
2. Family Business Meeting
3. Family Rewards System
4. Family Ownership
5. Vision Driven Family Handbook

To learn more about the 5-Step Vision Driven Family Success Program, go to https://www.globalfamilysuccess.com

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
The three most important qualities that were most impactful in our journey were: 1. A Motivated Vision: We implemented a written motivating business vision linked to a written inspiring family vision and successfully communicated continuously to at least two generations. Both our business and family vision are based on our core values and family members involved in the business genuinely believe in the vision and mission.

2. Mastered Services: We have dedicated our life to mastering our craft by learning the industry’s best practices, obtaining the education/training, attaining the technical and soft skills, and securing the resources required to provide the best products and services to our students and clients. We continue to work diligently to improve our abilities, learn from our mistakes and strive for excellence.

3. Win-Win Partnerships: Established win-win partnerships and collaborations with organizations with similar visions and missions.

As you walk your journey to build your business and generational wealth, you should always make time to improve your knowledge, skills, network, and partnerships. We strongly recommend always taking time to:
• read inspiring books
• watch motivating videos/podcasts
• participate in skill development workshops and webinars
• enroll in professional development classes and certifications
• meet with your mentor and business advisor
• participate in business networking events

Tell us what your ideal client would be like?
Our ideal clients are individuals, immediate families and extended families and like-minded people who are: • Having a challenge bringing their family together for the purpose of building wealth
• Seriously looking for a step-by-step program designed to build generational wealth
• Willing to learn and work together with their family to achieve a common purpose that benefits each person individually and the family collectively
• Working hard to achieve their goals and dreams but do not have a roadmap and coaches to guide them
• Working towards leaving a legacy for their children’s children. (Proverbs 13:22 A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.)

In addition, our ideal business clients are colleges/universities, nonprofits and faith-based organizations with educational platforms that need continuing adult education content (online video-based courses) that is needed by their students, members and community.

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