For 40 years, I have worked with leaders and teams navigating difficult decisions, enduring constant change, and exploring their own questions about how to best lead. I have spent most of my corporate career at the intersection of leadership development and organizational growth.
Now it is time to share everything I have learned and all I have done for leaders and teams in the corporate world… it is time for me to do all of this for the Kingdom.
My journey has led me here.
Even my educational path started with social work, then education, and finally psychology. All three now form pillars for me professionally.
I am also a follower of Jesus, and I have come to believe, after many years of trying to keep faith and work separate, that the marketplace is a legitimate arena for spiritual formation. The leadership meeting, the difficult performance review, the strategic decision, the 1:1 with a struggling team member: these are not distractions from the formation life. They are where formation is tested and where it becomes real.
Truth and love arrive together when the leader is rooted in union with the Father. And no amount of technique will produce that fruit apart from the Root.
Leadership is not first a set of skills. The skills matter, and they are necessary. I have spent forty years helping leaders build them, and I have watched good leaders do real good without ever naming a Source at all. Skill is necessary. It is just not sufficient.
What I have come to believe is that leadership flows best when a person is rooted in something, or someone, larger than themselves. Rooted there, a leader does not run dry the way sheer effort eventually does. There is more to draw on, so there is more to give, and more of the leader left at the end of it.
Here is where I landed. The ultimate Source is God the Father, who created all things and all people. I believe Jesus is who He said He was, and that He leads the way He does because He is in unbroken union with the Father, drawing everything He says and does from that relationship. I believe the same union is offered to us.
This is why skill is necessary but never sufficient. The sufficiency was never going to come from me.
I have found that to be true in the places I most wanted it not to be. Truth and love do not arrive together because a leader has balanced them well. They arrive together because they are both flowing from the same Source, the way they always did in Him.
Leaders in Motion is a skills-based companion to this first book. It focuses on the skills and practices to build to be a leader who grows other leaders and gets work done. If you have the foundation of being connected to the Source, your skills will be on a firm foundation. It’s coming soon!
If any of this resonates, I would love to hear from you. Growth is a lifelong journey and is most valuable and powerful when experienced with others. I learn as much from the leaders I work with as they learn from me.
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