The Leader's Journey Podcast

Many organizations have plenty of great ideas and plans for the future but they struggle to focus everyone in the same direction and goal setting always seems to fall flat. How can we do strategic pl…

The question we are exploring in this episode is, "So I believe that God is doing a new thing, how do I help people let go of the past so that we can move toward a different future?"

I understand that I’m supposed to be leading toward God’s emerging future, mobilizing people toward a shared vision. But honestly, it’s like herding cats! How do we know where we’re supposed to be go…

We live in a culture that is drowning in emotion and at the same time we are emotionally numb and cut off. The church is no different. In order to have something compelling to offer in our culture, i…

This episode is about learning to master transformation conversations from our six-part series on leadership practices that lead to breakthrough. If you’d like to learn more about this series or our …

A guiding principle is a standard you want to live up to or a value you want to live into with integrity.

This episode is about learning to identify and clarify guiding principles from our six-part s…

We are in a changing context and the practices we grew up with are not the practices that will sustain the kind of leadership we need in this world.

We believe that effective leaders have a set of da…

We can navigate cancel culture by seeing the systems forces that perpetuate it and by managing ourselves wisely in the midst of those forces. We started this conversation a couple of months ago and a…

Change is not just a set of ideas, deep desire, or good intentions. It is a set of practices and in this episod…

APRIL 21, 2021 By The Leader's Journey (Edit)

Between the pace of change and the complexity of modern life, congregational leadership isn’t just one thing and can’t be done …

Between the pace of change and the complexity of modern life, congregational leadership isn’t just one thing and can’t be done by just one person. In order to stay balanced and effective, leaders mus…

Congregational leadership isn’t just one thing and can’t be done by just one person. In order to stay balanced and effective, leaders must learn to engage the complexity of both making individual dis…

We know that our lives and our leadership flourish when we practice showing up in emotionally mature ways but we don’t always know what that looks like practically. After thinking together about emot…

After talking about each of the 8 core concepts of Bowen Family Systems Theory in previous episodes, we come back together in this episode to ask some final questions about the theory and its useful…

Leadership issues as close to home as sibling position and as big-picture as societal regression -- Bowen Family Systems Theory has it all. In the 4th episode in this series, we talk about how our bi…

How did the role you played in your family shape who you became? How does it shape your leadership? How do the people in your organization express the role they learned in their families? We invite y…

Can you see the triangles in your family and your organization? How do you manage yourself in them? What role does distancing and cutoff have in your relationships over time? Can you imagine a differ…

What theories do you have about leadership? How do they guide the work you do? Whether we can articulate them or not, we all have assumptions about human behavior and how people change and what good …

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Being a leader means being an expert, having it all together and getting things done . . . or at least that’s what we sometimes think. Pastor and author Mandy Smith guides us into a way of thinking a…