A Leader in Trouble
John Daily seems to have everything a person is supposed to want. He runs a large factory, earns a strong salary, and lives with his wife Rachael and their children in a beautiful home by the lake. Yet the closer one looks, the more his life is falling apart. His marriage is strained, his children are pulling away, and his workplace is locked in conflict.
The problem is not limited to work. Even in his role as a volunteer coach, people complain that he is too harsh and too driven by winning. John has built his life around control, pressure, and results, but those methods are now damaging every relationship that matters to him. He is successful on paper, but deeply frustrated and increasingly alone.
When his wife and pastor urge him to attend a week-long retreat at a monastery, he resists. It sounds like an interruption he cannot afford. Then he learns that one of the monks is Leonard Hoffman, a former business leader with an impressive corporate past. That detail catches his attention and gives him a reason to go.
Once he arrives, the retreat becomes more personal than he expected. Hoffman is now known as Brother Simeon, the very name that has followed John in strange ways since childhood. What began as a reluctant trip soon feels like a direct challenge to the way John has been living. He comes looking for advice, but what he really finds is a new way to understand leadership, family, and himself.
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