John Maxwell Team John Maxwell Team is a great community, however it works best if you are in a USA time Zone. Being out that time zone makes it difficult to participate in real time.

I bring 27 years of direct sales to the… I bring 27 years of direct sales to the table. The Maxwell site has encouraged me and given me soooo much material all prepared for me to use. There is something for Every Area!! TOP that with the LIVE event in Florida. John Maxwell and the team represent giving back and leading others to better values, ideas to follow through with and put God First with the mission of Lifting others from Kids to Adults! Love it! Connie Durham, Atlanta Area

John Maxwell Team Scam + Pyramid Scam The John Maxwell Team is supposed to be a program that helps leaders build businesses in public speaking, leadership coaching, and training. The program bears the name of world renowned leader John C. Maxwell but is run by a shadier character named Paul Martinelli. The program mostly is a Amway-like system designed to fleece the dedicated John Maxwell followers of their money through a tiered, pyramid-like scam where access, for short periods of time, is licensed for use by payment of $5000+ per level. The sales game starts immediately at the certification training where the staff (sales team) begins plugging how "success ONLY is gained through upgrade to the mentorship program..." This is a several thousand dollar per year membership upgrade that this company makes millions more at the training selling to non-vetted people who they are allowing to call themselves leadership coaches. The process for becoming a leadership coach with the John Maxwell Team has nothing to do with experience or abilities it is ALL about having MONEY. Many of the people in training are not qualified and NONE are vetted to ensure they are safe to train adults, much less the children that some of their programs target. A felon, child molester can become a John Maxwell Team member and use the program to gain access to local children under the guise of leadership coaching. The program loyalists also are more cult-like than anything and engage in behaviors within their groups to include censorship of anyone who asks questions about this pyramid scam and personal attacks on members who make any negative comment about the program's lack of anything resembling a real training program. The training programs that people are buying are ALL USER CREATED power point slides that anyone who buys a John Maxwell book can create. There is ZERO actual official training materials that are professionally created by this company that boasts their $100 million enterprise numerous times in certification. The program is whatever power points you make after you attend the certification and nothing of value that should be sold for the prices they charge. Mostly, the people in the program have no issue making personal attacks on members and some people have been driven off social media completely due to constant personal attacks due to asking questions that felt detracted from the business of making $100 million in membership fees. This program spends 100% of their time recruiting unqualified people and ZERO PERCENT of their time building a brand that the target customers values. There is ZERO consumer confidence in the John Maxwell Team brand, the only value is in the name John Maxwell but this does not lead to businesses valuing the service. It is a complete waste of money and only makes Paul Martinelli, who has not created a single valuable thing, rich.

No honor. I was in jail. I talked to someone in sales about a new van for my wife and made CLEAR where I was and my need for someone to take good care of my wife during the purchase. When THE DAY came, sent her up there with my dad and a checkbook. Everything seemed to go well (except that they did not have the van that I had originally been discussing with the saleslady). Note that my wife did not speak a lot of English at the time and had little experience buying cars- thus the reason that I sent my dad with her. Again, negotiations seemed to go fine at this point. A deal was made. A deposit put down (I am not sure as to why they could not take delivery on the spot, as we were paying cash for the vehicle). A schedule was planned for my wife to pick up the van and give the final check on the Thursday that week. Thus the problems began: - My wife returned without my dad (her insurance against getting scammed) - My wife had been CLEAR that she DID NOT want an extended warranty - The original salesperson did not help my wife, instead, some other salesperson (or manager???) did - ABUSING her inability to speak good English and NOT providing anyone to interpret and AGAINST her previously established desire to NOT purchase an extended service agreement, they added one. - All my wife knew was that the final check was for about $2000 MORE than the original agreement was (before tax numbers). Fast forward a few years (originally this was 2018) to 2022 and my wife has a blowout returning from a family gathering (Thanksgiving) around 3am. She calls her brother (who was close) and he came to change the tire... next set of problems: - No spare. - No jack. So she has to call an emergency roadside person who charges $360 to sell her a tire, mount it, and send her on her way. By this time (2022) I am home. I am upset about not having a spare. I dig through paperwork with the intention of finding out if it is on the original window sticker. I found all the paperwork. Next series of problems: - I found the ADDED warranty. - I called the dealership to complain about the TWO problems -the bigger being their abuse of a non-English speaking client, but the tire is still a big deal, too. - I spoke with Nyle's son directly - he was managing the Taylor location at that time. He was PROFOUNDLY apologetic and promised to do all in his power to rectify the situation. - He NEVER followed up after that. - He NEVER returned (or even answered) another call after that. - Neither he nor anyone else that I talked to there ever made good on their commitment to get us the spare and jack. - No one even TRIED to make good on the $2000 that they NEVER HAD PERMISSION TO CHARGE for a warranty that was EXPLICITLY DECLINED. - No one ever even mentioned if possibly the ext War (that again, we never should have had) might at least cover the roadside assistance charges. No one has ever done anything. AND even our complaint to the BBB has not caused them to get some form of honorable response. My mom bought 2 3/4 ton trucks from Maxwell. My dad bought a 1 ton and a 1/2 ton. We THOUGHT that we would be doing business with them for life. Turns out that they are no better than classic image of a used car salesman. I am PITIFULLY disappointed. NEVER, EVER, EVER buy a car from the Maxwell family! (The "date of experience" on this is the date that I finally stopped actively trying to get them to do something about the prejudice and disservice that they showed/ did to my wife).

One of your proud employees/leaders… One of your proud employees/leaders (Tom) is actively pushing anti-vaccine & anti-mask propaganda. While telling those who are auto immune are being "dramatic & angry" for wanting people to be vaccinated & wear masks. He is feigning victim, while harming everyone else. Is personal accountability not taught at these seminars/certification classes? Is empathy for others not covered? Is a blatant disregard for Science key curriculum? Do classes teach that only money is the key to happiness & power? Or is Tom using the John Maxwell name in the wrong way & needs to be reprimanded?