EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 5 NEW ADVANCEMENTS
Ron Lyons CALIFORNIA A Deeper Sense of Purpose
With Melaleuca, Ron says, he’s connecting with people who have similar values and helping them achieve their goals. His most recent advancement came as he helped a friend prepare for retirement and move to Florida while building a Melaleuca business. Ron has helped other team members build businesses that have enabled them to put their children in private schools, pay off debts, and improve their lives. And Ron has also learned that this kind of benevolence in Melaleuca isn't limited to just benefiting his own organization. “I met Executive Director 6 Gigi Moldovan at Leadership Quest, and he had built a business in Australia and Canada,” Ron says. “We had him join some of our team trainings to talk about building an international business. Then later, I went on a three-way call with one of his leaders to help him enroll someone with a background similar to mine. Obviously, we don’t get any financial benefit for doing that for each other. That’s just the culture at Melaleuca.” With Melaleuca, Ron has found something he’s never seen before: selfless leaders lifting one another through a desire to fulfill a mission of helping people reach their goals. And just as his parents left a legacy of meaning and purpose for him, he’s hoping to pass on Melaleuca’s benevolent culture to the next generation of his family. “The legacy I’m leaving for my daughter—it’s not just about money,” he says. “To have something like Melaleuca where I can make a positive impact—it’s like a breath of fresh air. And to have it be multigenerational, that’s almost unheard of.” MS
Ron Lyons grew up in Niger, West Africa. His father, a missionary dentist and minister, built a dental clinic, provided free dental work, and mentored local pastors. Ron’s mother taught women how to read, write, cook, and sew. “They helped thousands of people,” Ron says. “And I experienced living in a third-world country. I think every single kid needs to spend three months in a third-world country so they can see how even the worst slums here are better than how people live in many other countries.” Years later, his experience as a youth in Africa tugged at his conscience. Ron wasn’t satisfied by the positions he held in corporate America. He’d worked hard and was earning a satisfying income. He’d even mentored a few people along the way and helped them succeed. But he wanted to do something that connected him with a deeper sense of purpose and his innate desire to help others. “I was an executive chef and general manager, and then I went into the digital marketing space,” he says. “But I didn’t have a deep purpose. It wasn’t until I came to Melaleuca that I really found that sense of purpose.”
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