Our Mission
True Growth Associates is committed to developing authentic leaders and passionately engaged teams. Our passion and expertise is growing individuals, teams, and businesses to the richly rewarding Season of Significance. Our team of seasoned practitioners consult, teach, and coach from our True Growth Model of leader development. Our work is purpose focused, values-grounded, and disciplines driven. Why settle for success when we can help you and your team grow to significance?
Our Process
Our extensive research has identified the following eight components that are consistently present in high performing teams.
- The right purpose
- The right values
- The right behavior
- The right leaders
- The right people
- The right relationships
- The right environment
- The right results
"I think the True Growth Model is very powerful, and that the chart depicting The Seasons of Growth can provide a needed wake-up call, and a mirror for self-understanding, that can help individuals and teams to grow powerfully into their distinctive strengths and then go on to make their proper difference in the world."
- Tom Morris, Ph.D., Author of True Success & If Aristotle Ran General Motors
Our expertise is in the assessment, design, and implementation of these critical components. Our premise is that to grow great, businesses must first go deep to discover the most effective ways to leverage their human capital.
Our Services
True Growth Academy; Organizational Consulting; Motivational Speaking; Executive Coaching; TeamMax® Team Building
Our Team
Byrd Baggett – Byrd Baggett, CSP, Founder and President of True Growth Associates, is a best-selling author and popular motivational speaker. He has been helping companies develop authentic leaders and passionately engaged teams since 1990. His corporate experience includes sales and management careers with two Fortune 500 companies. Byrd is the author of 13 best-selling business books that have sold in excess of one million copies. He is a member of the National Speakers Association and was a collegiate All American in track at the University of Texas.
Contact Byrd - Visit his website at ByrdBaggett.com
Byrd earns prestigious CSP designation Download Press Release
Larry Cole – Larry Cole, Ph.D. Director of Organizational Consulting for True Growth Associates, created methodology to measure behavior change in "real-time." His methodologies drive behavior change and can answer the question, "does classroom training result in a behavior change." His consulting success over the past two decades is based on the philosophy that "systems drive behavior change." He authored the 7-Step Personal Change Process© to systematically improve individual performance and organizational change. He has published four books and over fifty articles. As a member of the National Speakers Association he champions the concept that frustration is your best friend™.
Contact Larry - Visit his website at TeamMax.net - Full Bio
Lawson Magruder, LTG, US Army (Retired) – Lawson Magruder, Director of Leader Development for True Growth Associates, has been coaching professionals, mentoring leaders and building highly efficient professional teams for more than four decades. He led soldiers in combat in Vietnam and Somalia and commanded three Army organizations in excess of 10,000 individuals, to include the historic 10th Mountain Division. After 32 years of service, Lawson transitioned from the U.S Army and into the corporate culture building enduring research partnerships in the homeland security arena, publicly sharing his leadership journey at seminars and conferences, and serving as a personal coach for business leaders nationwide.
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Magruder selected for US Army Ranger Hall of Fame
Chip Toth - S. Chip Toth, Director of the True Growth Academy, has extensive background leading organizations, coaching senior leaders, and speaking at national conventions. His expertise is leader development, team-building, and constructing corporate cultures. Chip leads and teaches with passion and conviction. He loves helping leaders develop their personal missions and legacies. Chip has been married for over 26 years and has three older kids. He enjoys distance running and has completed a number of marathons. Chip's life purpose is "God's Friend, Loved People."
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Why settle for success when you can grow to significance?