{"id":525,"date":"2021-01-07T17:43:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T17:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadchicago.org\/?page_id=525"},"modified":"2025-07-23T22:50:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T03:50:52","slug":"mesmerize","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/leadchicago.org\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  id=\"about-1\" class=\"about-9 content-section content-section-spacing\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\" data-label=\"About\" data-id=\"about--1\" data-export-id=\"about-9\" data-category=\"about\">\n<div  class=\"gridContainer\">\n<div  class=\"row middle-sm text-center\">\n<div  class=\"col-sm-5 space-bottom-xs content-column content-right-sm\" data-type=\"column\">\n<h5  class=\"\">About LeaderImpact Chicago<\/h5>\n<h2  class=\"\">Over 25 years of<\/h2>\n<span  class=\"\" style=\"font-family: 'Playfair Display', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">FAITH<\/span>&nbsp;and <span  class=\"\" style=\"font-family: 'Playfair Display', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">LEADERSHIP<\/span>\n<p  class=\"\">At the core of LeaderImpact is the weekly leadership group. Some of our groups have been meeting for over 25 years, with new members regularly joining in.<\/p>\nSome groups meet entirely online, with group members not bound to a attending in person in a specific region of the city (or the world for that matter). Other leadership groups meet entirely in-person, or a hybrid of both online and in-person.\n\nGroups meet for 60-90 minutes weekly and cover a discussion that integrates our leadership with the Christian faith. &nbsp;Leaders with little or no background of faith find our groups the perfect place to explore their personal, professional and spiritual lives at a deeper level. All are welcome to try out a group regardless of their religious background.\n<h5  class=\"\"><\/h5>\n<p  class=\"\"><span  style=\"font-weight: bold;\">About StraightTalk Chicago\n<\/span>\nStraight Talk Chicago is an IRS registered 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization and is in partnership with LeaderImpact. &nbsp;StraightTalk has been in the leadership and faith development sector for over 25 years, holding events and hosting groups throughout the Chicagoland area.<\/p>\n<a  class=\"button color1\" href=\"https:\/\/leadchicago.org?page_id=4\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cp-link=\"1\" data-icon=\"\">Learn More<\/a>\n\n<\/div>\n<div  class=\"col-sm-7 flexbox flexbox middle-xs center-xs space-bottom-xs\">\n<div  class=\"overlay-box flexbox middle-xs center-xs overlay-holder \">\n<div  class=\"overlay-box-offset offset-background shadow-medium bg-color2 hide-xs\"><\/div>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  class=\"flexbox shadow-large img1 jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled\" title=\"cropped-LI-group-image-2-members-wpp1610049274441.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/leadchicago.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/cropped-LI-group-image-2-members-wpp1610049274441.jpg?w=3840&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"370\" data-size=\"600x400\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\">\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About LeaderImpact Chicago Over 25 years of FAITH&nbsp;and LEADERSHIP At the core of LeaderImpact is the weekly leadership group. Some of our groups have been meeting for over 25 years, with new members regularly joining in. Some groups meet entirely online, with group members not bound to a attending in person in a specific region&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/leadchicago.org\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/homepage.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-525","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadchicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadchicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadchicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadchicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadchicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/leadchicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"https:\/\/leadchicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/525\/revisions\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadchicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}