Leadership
The Leadership Vision
Mission
We equip and inspire leaders who act with urgency for the gospel of Jesus Christ and learn to strategically build congregational communities within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Vision
We won’t stop until every leader values their worth and is living out its impact.
Values
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Everyone can be a leader with influence.
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All have a voice at the table.
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Christians of the cross exist for others.
“Religious institutions lack any clear strategy or roadmap for renegotiating
this new cultural terrain.
These voices express not only loss but also being at a loss—
the very kind of thing we would expect to hear from leaders
whose institutions are suffering obsolescence.”
Sociologist Christian Smith (2025)
My Latest Work
I presented a Visionary Leadership Workshop at the Metro Chicago Synod's Rostered Minister's Gathering in early October at the Chicago Marriott Schaumburg. Those in attendance were pastors, interns, retired clergy, synod authorized ministers, associates to the bishop and Bishop Christensen.
Key Takeaway #1:
I believe I've found a gap in strategic training
for leaders in the ELCA
Key Takeaway #2:
Leaders are clambering for opportunities to connect
about deep, important, world-changing stuff,
and this workshop offered an important step forward
People started to open up. Get honest. Trust was alive.
I presented a Visionary Leadership Workshop at the Metro Chicago Synod's Rostered Minister's Gathering in early October at the Chicago Marriott Schaumburg. Those in attendance were pastors, interns, retired clergy, synod authorized ministers, associates to the bishop and Bishop Christensen.
I presented a Visionary Leadership Workshop at the Metro Chicago Synod's Rostered Minister's Gathering in early October at the Chicago Marriott Schaumburg. Those in attendance were pastors, interns, retired clergy, synod authorized ministers, associates to the bishop and Bishop Christensen.
I presented a Visionary Leadership Workshop at the Metro Chicago Synod's Rostered Minister's Gathering in early October at the Chicago Marriott Schaumburg. Those in attendance were pastors, interns, retired clergy, synod authorized ministers, associates to the bishop and Bishop Christensen.
I presented a Visionary Leadership Workshop at the Metro Chicago Synod's Rostered Minister's Gathering in early October at the Chicago Marriott Schaumburg. Those in attendance were pastors, interns, retired clergy, synod authorized ministers, associates to the bishop and Bishop Christensen.
In late October, I presented an online webinar through The Chicago School of Business Psychology entitled What Are We All Doing Here? A Strategic Discussion on Finding Our Why. Invited to attend were current and prospective Chicago School students, alumni, faculty, staff and others. In attendance were students, pastors, a professor
and other interested leaders.
Upcoming 2027 Offerings
Student Leadership Workshop
Coming August 2027
For rising 8th – 12th graders
from Metro Chicago-area congregations
Strategic Leadership Workshop
Coming May 2027
For congregations interested in growing in their potential to make greater impact in the world. Invited are congregational council members, staffs, ministry leaders, rostered leaders (including ministers of word and sacrament, ministers of word and service, synod-authorized ministers, vicars/interns)