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Category: Academic Leadership

Course: A Biblical Model of Academic Leadership

Summary: This course equips current and aspiring chief academic officers in Christian higher education to lead with intentionality, integrity, and spiritual depth. Grounded in a biblical vision of leadership as stewardship, servanthood, and shepherding, the course moves beyond management principles to explore five strategic priorities: educational philosophy, executive team synergy, mission-fit faculty, curriculum design, and resource alignment. Through practical insights, reflective questions, and a focus on the implicit curriculum of institutional culture, participants will be challenged to lead with clarity, courage, and Christlike character.

Category: Academic Leadership

Course: Building Mission-Fit Teams

Summary: This course explores how to build your leadership team and faculty around the mission of your institution. As a Chief Academic Officer, you have a unique responsibility not only to manage the academic mission of your institution but also to foster a culture of collaboration, vision, and growth among your leadership team and faculty. This course will explore key principles of team building, leadership development, and fostering a shared mission all while staying grounded in the distinct theological and educational mission of your institution.

Category: Advancement Leadership

Course: Fundamentals of Fundraising

Summary: This course provides a practical, mission-centered introduction to effective fundraising for Christian institutions and nonprofit organizations. Drawing on decades of real-world experience from veteran fundraiser Terry Munday, the course explores fundraising as a relational vocation rather than a technical transaction. Learners will explore relationship-building and donor cultivation as the foundation for making a clear and confident ask, identifying and expanding the donor base through existing networks, and sustaining institutional health through a well-run annual fund.

Category: Advancement Leadership

Course: Essentials of Legacy Giving

Summary: This course on Legacy Giving equips advancement officers and leaders at Bible colleges and Christian universities with the vision, theology, and practical tools to build a long-term pipeline of bequests and planned gifts. Five concise lessons present foundational principles, the unprecedented opportunity of the Great Wealth Transfer, the biblical purpose of wealth, the power of revocable living trusts, and best practices for implementation. Through these lessons, participants learn how to invite donors into a spiritual act of stewardship that blesses both their families and the mission of the institution. Rooted in Scripture and seasoned with practical wisdom, the course empowers leaders to communicate with clarity, serve with integrity, and lead with long-term vision.

Category: Advancement Leadership

Course: Keys to Capital Campaign Success

Summary: This course equips leaders in Christian higher education and nonprofit ministry with the vision, strategy, and tools to plan and execute transformational fundraising campaigns. Drawing on decades of experience from The Timothy Group, this course provides practical guidance on every phase of a campaign, from laying the foundation and cultivating donor relationships, to implementing effective strategies and crossing the finish line with confidence. Rooted in biblical stewardship and spiritual dependence, the course demonstrates how capital campaigns are not simply about raising money but about inviting partners into mission and impact.

Category: Board Governance

Course: Introduction to Board Governance

Summary: This course is designed to equip new or veteran trustees with the foundational knowledge and strategic insights required to effectively lead and serve on the board of a Christian higher education institution. Each module can be completed separately for use in board development on the respective topic. The areas covered are: New Trustee Orientation, Fiduciary Responsibility, Mission Accountability, Strategic Planning, and Board Development.

Category: Board Governance

Course: The Board and President: From Search to Succession

Summary: This course equips governing boards of Christian colleges and universities to lead with wisdom and confidence through every phase of presidential succession, from preparing for leadership change to welcoming and supporting a new president. Drawing on ABHE’s extensive experience in Christian higher education, this course explores how to time and communicate departures effectively, honor and celebrate outgoing presidents, onboard new leaders with clarity and care, and sustain effective governance during the critical first year. Emphasizing both practical systems and spiritual stewardship, this course helps boards ensure mission continuity, institutional stability, and God-honoring leadership transitions.

Category: Enrollment Leadership

Course: Enrollment Data: So What?

Summary: This course equips enrollment leaders with the analytical frameworks, practical tools, and strategic habits needed to interpret institutional data wisely. Rather than drowning in dashboards or reacting to anecdotes, participants learn to ask the essential “so what?” questions that transform raw numbers into insight. Through lessons on foundational definitions, CRM systems, key performance metrics, tuition discounting, benchmarking, and data disaggregation, the course trains leaders to see patterns, identify flares, avoid misleading averages, and communicate data with clarity across campus. The goal is not simply to collect data, but to use it, aligning enrollment practices with mission, capacity, and market reality.

Category: Enrollment Leadership

Course: Enrollment Leadership

Summary: This course explores the art and ministry of enrollment leadership in Christian higher education. Designed for admissions and enrollment professionals, this course emphasizes that enrollment work is not transactional. It is transformational. Learners will gain insight on combining faith, professionalism, and perseverance with authenticity and hope in order to guide students and families. Rooted in Scripture and enriched by practical wisdom, this course equips leaders to approach their calling with skill, compassion, and mission-driven clarity.

Category: Enrollment Leadership

Course: Enrollment Website and Social Media

Summary: This course equips enrollment and marketing leaders at Christian colleges to reach the right students with the right message in the right places. Participants explore the changing landscape of enrollment marketing, which is shaped by demographic decline, digital discovery, and generative AI. You will learn practical strategies for attracting mission-fit students who embody and enhance the institution’s values. The course moves from myth-busting to action planning, guiding teams to clarify their institutional identity, strengthen their website and content strategy, and engage students through relational and creative approaches that align with their mission.

Category: Enrollment Leadership

Course: Recruiting Mission-Fit Students

Summary: This course equips enrollment leaders at Christian colleges to identify, recruit, and retain mission-fit students through a strategic, data-informed, and spiritually grounded approach. You will reflect on your institution’s unique identity and audience, learn to collect and apply internal and external data, adjust your practices to improve targeting and conversion, and implement tools for tracking progress and team accountability. With a focus on long-term consistency and clarity of purpose, the course helps enrollment teams resist distractions, stay focused on what matters most, and faithfully steward their calling to connect students with life-changing educational experiences.

Category: Faculty Leadership

Course: Biblical Integration Through Storytelling

Summary: This course equips Christian educators to integrate Scripture across disciplines using the powerful medium of storytelling. Participants will explore the biblical foundations of narrative, examine the structure and dynamics of effective stories, and learn to apply storytelling in academic settings through parables, biblical characters, and personal testimony. The course fosters deeper engagement with students by forming emotional and spiritual connections rooted in the grand narrative of Scripture. Educators will emerge with practical strategies to enhance learning and spiritual formation in any subject area.

Category: Faculty Leadership

Course: Designing Instruction for Biblical Integration

Summary: This course provides principles and practical strategies for integrating biblical truths into instructional design across various academic subjects. Participants will explore ways to create meaningful connections between course content and Christian faith, fostering students’ spiritual and academic growth.

Category: Faculty Leadership

Course: Discipleship and Education

Summary: This course explores the profound intersection of discipleship and education, equipping Christian faculty to embrace their unique calling as both scholars and spiritual mentors. While discipleship may not always involve direct spiritual formation for every student, it is an integral part of how faculty contribute to shaping students’ perspectives and lives. Through engaging lessons, this course examines how biblical education calls students to see the world as God’s creation, where His hand is at work. Faculty will be guided in practical strategies to integrate faith into teaching, mentor students inside and outside the classroom, and cultivate their own inner lives as disciples of Christ. Together, we will discover how education is not merely intellectual formation but a sacred act of joining Christ in His mission to transform lives and the world.

Category: Faculty Leadership

Course: Teaching for Biblical Integration

Summary: This course shifts from designing instructional experiences to the art of teaching. Though teaching may look different depending on the instructional setting (e.g., online, face-to-face, hybrid), there are techniques that can inform one’s teaching regardless of one’s instructional setting.

Category: Faculty Leadership

Course: The Biblical Story

Summary: This course is designed to develop a biblical framework for those who don’t have formal education in biblical or theological studies. It considers the basic biblical story, as well as highlighting specific biblical themes that may be useful when thinking about biblical integration.

Category: Faculty Leadership

Course: Theology of Civics

Summary: This course explores the theology of civics from a biblical worldview, equipping Christian educators and leaders to teach government and civic life with both intellectual clarity and spiritual integrity. Drawing from Scripture, historical foundations, and theological anthropology, the course helps participants understand how concepts like the image of God, human fallenness, justice, and stewardship shape civic engagement. Participants will examine the design of government, the rationale for civic education, and the role of spiritual formation in the classroom, ultimately seeing civics as an extension of discipleship and mission.

Category: Faculty Leadership

Course: Transformation Through Biblical Higher Education

Summary: The people and curriculum the chief academic officer leads ought to reflect our deep passion for providing a transformative education that embodies Anselm of Canterbury’s “fides quaerens intellectum” (faith seeking understanding). On the other hand, we should also be convinced that a well-rounded education entails more than the mere pursuit of truth, it must also shape the person and in turn, the culture. This course provides a framework to understand how your calling and spiritual health drive transformative education.

Category: Faculty Leadership

Course: Understanding Biblical Integration

Summary: This course equips educators and learners with a foundational understanding of biblical integration, helping them navigate vast amounts of information while grounding their knowledge and practices in a biblical worldview. Using practical analogies and interdisciplinary approaches, the course emphasizes the unity and multifaceted nature of truth, fostering collaboration and holistic discipleship.

Category: Financial Leadership

Course: CFO Roles and Responsibilities

Summary: This course equips Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) in Christian higher education with the knowledge and tools to provide sound financial oversight, foster trust through transparency, and strategically guide their institutions toward long-term sustainability. Drawing from best practices in financial management, forecasting, stakeholder communication, and crisis response, participants explore the multifaceted role of the chief financial officer as leader, counselor, guardian, and financial “prophet.”

Category: Presidential Leadership

Course: Getting Started Well: The President's First 100 Days

Summary: This course is designed specifically for new college and university presidents navigating their critical first hundred days in office. With the average presidency lasting fewer than six years, the patterns established early matter enormously. Learners will explore the relational, financial, and personal dimensions of the presidency, including building trust and clarifying roles with the governing board and executive team, cultivating relationships with key stakeholders, understanding the college's business model, and developing the personal rhythms that make a long, faithful presidency possible. The goal is not to hand new presidents a playbook, but to give them a clearer map of the terrain ahead and help them begin asking the right questions from the start.

Category: Presidential Leadership

Course: Leading an Institution as a Spiritual Enterprise

Summary: This course equips Christian institutional leaders to steward their organizations as spiritually vibrant communities. Drawing from Scripture and decades of pastoral and presidential experience, Dr. Michael Pawelke unpacks the high calling of leadership in biblical higher education. It is not simply an administrative function but a deeply spiritual responsibility. In these lessons, you will explore how to cultivate spiritual vibrancy on campus, cast a transformative vision for students, shepherd faculty and staff with pastoral care, anchor their communities in prayer and Scripture, and multiply spiritual leadership across all levels – from the boardroom to the classroom.

Category: Presidential Leadership

Course: The Heart of the President

Summary: This course explores the essence of servant leadership as modeled by Jesus Christ and applied to the unique context of leading a Christian college or university. Through biblical teaching, personal testimony, and practical wisdom drawn from decades of experience, you will discover how humility, integrity, gratitude, and vision shape transformational leadership. The course emphasizes both the inner life of the leader and the shared vision of the institution, equipping participants to lead with sincerity, courage, and hope.

Category: Student Development Leadership

Course: Excellent Student Development Leadership

Summary: This course equips new and developing Student Development Officers (SDOs) with the vision, tools, and relational strategies essential for thriving in their role. From wearing multiple hats as managers, mentors, and shepherds to cultivating student leadership, maintaining spiritual vibrancy, and partnering effectively across campus, you will gain insight into both the big-picture mission and the daily practices that shape a healthy campus culture. This course prepares SDOs to serve with humility, integrity, and strategic impact in today’s rapidly changing higher education landscape.

Category: Student Development Leadership

Course: High-Performance Student Development Teams

Summary: This course equips student development leaders with the mindset, strategies, and relational tools needed to build high-performing, mission-aligned teams in Christian higher education. Through practical lessons on hiring and firing well, cultivating trust-based culture, developing meaningful mission statements, and enriching both students and staff, participants will learn how to lead with clarity, compassion, and purpose. Grounded in real-life experience and spiritual wisdom, the course offers actionable insights to help leaders not only manage their teams, but empower them to transform student lives.

Category: Student Development Leadership

Course: Strengths-Based Leadership

Summary: This course equips current and emerging leaders with a practical, biblically grounded framework for identifying, developing, and deploying their God-given strengths. You will explore the philosophy of strengths-based leadership, learning to shift from a deficit-focused mindset to one that emphasizes growth, contribution, and team synergy. Through tools like CliftonStrengths and Working Genius, learners will gain hands-on experience assessing personal and team strengths, coaching student leaders, and crafting roles that align with individual talents. By the end of the course, you will be prepared to lead with authenticity, build stronger teams, and disciple others to serve effectively in their unique callings.

Category: Academic Leadership

Course: A Biblical Model of Academic Leadership

Summary: This course equips current and aspiring chief academic officers in Christian higher education to lead with intentionality, integrity, and spiritual depth. Grounded in a biblical vision of leadership as stewardship, servanthood, and shepherding, the course moves beyond management principles to explore five strategic priorities: educational philosophy, executive team synergy, mission-fit faculty, curriculum design, and resource alignment. Through practical insights, reflective questions, and a focus on the implicit curriculum of institutional culture, participants will be challenged to lead with clarity, courage, and Christlike character.

Category: Academic Leadership

Course: Building Mission-Fit Teams

Summary: This course explores how to build your leadership team and faculty around the mission of your institution. As a Chief Academic Officer, you have a unique responsibility not only to manage the academic mission of your institution but also to foster a culture of collaboration, vision, and growth among your leadership team and faculty. This course will explore key principles of team building, leadership development, and fostering a shared mission all while staying grounded in the distinct theological and educational mission of your institution.

Category: Advancement Leadership

Course: Fundamentals of Fundraising

Summary: This course provides a practical, mission-centered introduction to effective fundraising for Christian institutions and nonprofit organizations. Drawing on decades of real-world experience from veteran fundraiser Terry Munday, the course explores fundraising as a relational vocation rather than a technical transaction. Learners will explore relationship-building and donor cultivation as the foundation for making a clear and confident ask, identifying and expanding the donor base through existing networks, and sustaining institutional health through a well-run annual fund.

Category: Advancement Leadership

Course: Essentials of Legacy Giving

Summary: This course on Legacy Giving equips advancement officers and leaders at Bible colleges and Christian universities with the vision, theology, and practical tools to build a long-term pipeline of bequests and planned gifts. Five concise lessons present foundational principles, the unprecedented opportunity of the Great Wealth Transfer, the biblical purpose of wealth, the power of revocable living trusts, and best practices for implementation. Through these lessons, participants learn how to invite donors into a spiritual act of stewardship that blesses both their families and the mission of the institution. Rooted in Scripture and seasoned with practical wisdom, the course empowers leaders to communicate with clarity, serve with integrity, and lead with long-term vision.

Category: Advancement Leadership

Course: Keys to Capital Campaign Success

Summary: This course equips leaders in Christian higher education and nonprofit ministry with the vision, strategy, and tools to plan and execute transformational fundraising campaigns. Drawing on decades of experience from The Timothy Group, this course provides practical guidance on every phase of a campaign, from laying the foundation and cultivating donor relationships, to implementing effective strategies and crossing the finish line with confidence. Rooted in biblical stewardship and spiritual dependence, the course demonstrates how capital campaigns are not simply about raising money but about inviting partners into mission and impact.

Category: Board Governance

Course: Introduction to Board Governance

Summary: This course is designed to equip new or veteran trustees with the foundational knowledge and strategic insights required to effectively lead and serve on the board of a Christian higher education institution. Each module can be completed separately for use in board development on the respective topic. The areas covered are: New Trustee Orientation, Fiduciary Responsibility, Mission Accountability, Strategic Planning, and Board Development.

Category: Board Governance

Course: The Board and President: From Search to Succession

Summary: This course equips governing boards of Christian colleges and universities to lead with wisdom and confidence through every phase of presidential succession, from preparing for leadership change to welcoming and supporting a new president. Drawing on ABHE’s extensive experience in Christian higher education, this course explores how to time and communicate departures effectively, honor and celebrate outgoing presidents, onboard new leaders with clarity and care, and sustain effective governance during the critical first year. Emphasizing both practical systems and spiritual stewardship, this course helps boards ensure mission continuity, institutional stability, and God-honoring leadership transitions.

Category: Enrollment Leadership

Course: Enrollment Data: So What?

Summary: This course equips enrollment leaders with the analytical frameworks, practical tools, and strategic habits needed to interpret institutional data wisely. Rather than drowning in dashboards or reacting to anecdotes, participants learn to ask the essential “so what?” questions that transform raw numbers into insight. Through lessons on foundational definitions, CRM systems, key performance metrics, tuition discounting, benchmarking, and data disaggregation, the course trains leaders to see patterns, identify flares, avoid misleading averages, and communicate data with clarity across campus. The goal is not simply to collect data, but to use it, aligning enrollment practices with mission, capacity, and market reality.

Category: Enrollment Leadership

Course: Enrollment Leadership

Summary: This course explores the art and ministry of enrollment leadership in Christian higher education. Designed for admissions and enrollment professionals, this course emphasizes that enrollment work is not transactional. It is transformational. Learners will gain insight on combining faith, professionalism, and perseverance with authenticity and hope in order to guide students and families. Rooted in Scripture and enriched by practical wisdom, this course equips leaders to approach their calling with skill, compassion, and mission-driven clarity.

Category: Enrollment Leadership

Course: Enrollment Website and Social Media

Summary: This course equips enrollment and marketing leaders at Christian colleges to reach the right students with the right message in the right places. Participants explore the changing landscape of enrollment marketing, which is shaped by demographic decline, digital discovery, and generative AI. You will learn practical strategies for attracting mission-fit students who embody and enhance the institution’s values. The course moves from myth-busting to action planning, guiding teams to clarify their institutional identity, strengthen their website and content strategy, and engage students through relational and creative approaches that align with their mission.

Category: Enrollment Leadership

Course: Recruiting Mission-Fit Students

Summary: This course equips enrollment leaders at Christian colleges to identify, recruit, and retain mission-fit students through a strategic, data-informed, and spiritually grounded approach. You will reflect on your institution’s unique identity and audience, learn to collect and apply internal and external data, adjust your practices to improve targeting and conversion, and implement tools for tracking progress and team accountability. With a focus on long-term consistency and clarity of purpose, the course helps enrollment teams resist distractions, stay focused on what matters most, and faithfully steward their calling to connect students with life-changing educational experiences.

Category: Faculty Leadership

Course: Biblical Integration Through Storytelling

Summary: This course equips Christian educators to integrate Scripture across disciplines using the powerful medium of storytelling. Participants will explore the biblical foundations of narrative, examine the structure and dynamics of effective stories, and learn to apply storytelling in academic settings through parables, biblical characters, and personal testimony. The course fosters deeper engagement with students by forming emotional and spiritual connections rooted in the grand narrative of Scripture. Educators will emerge with practical strategies to enhance learning and spiritual formation in any subject area.

Category: Faculty Leadership

Course: Designing Instruction for Biblical Integration

Summary: This course provides principles and practical strategies for integrating biblical truths into instructional design across various academic subjects. Participants will explore ways to create meaningful connections between course content and Christian faith, fostering students’ spiritual and academic growth.

Category: Faculty Leadership

Course: Discipleship and Education

Summary: This course explores the profound intersection of discipleship and education, equipping Christian faculty to embrace their unique calling as both scholars and spiritual mentors. While discipleship may not always involve direct spiritual formation for every student, it is an integral part of how faculty contribute to shaping students’ perspectives and lives. Through engaging lessons, this course examines how biblical education calls students to see the world as God’s creation, where His hand is at work. Faculty will be guided in practical strategies to integrate faith into teaching, mentor students inside and outside the classroom, and cultivate their own inner lives as disciples of Christ. Together, we will discover how education is not merely intellectual formation but a sacred act of joining Christ in His mission to transform lives and the world.

Category: Faculty Leadership

Course: Teaching for Biblical Integration

Summary: This course shifts from designing instructional experiences to the art of teaching. Though teaching may look different depending on the instructional setting (e.g., online, face-to-face, hybrid), there are techniques that can inform one’s teaching regardless of one’s instructional setting.

Category: Faculty Leadership

Course: The Biblical Story

Summary: This course is designed to develop a biblical framework for those who don’t have formal education in biblical or theological studies. It considers the basic biblical story, as well as highlighting specific biblical themes that may be useful when thinking about biblical integration.

Category: Faculty Leadership

Course: Theology of Civics

Summary: This course explores the theology of civics from a biblical worldview, equipping Christian educators and leaders to teach government and civic life with both intellectual clarity and spiritual integrity. Drawing from Scripture, historical foundations, and theological anthropology, the course helps participants understand how concepts like the image of God, human fallenness, justice, and stewardship shape civic engagement. Participants will examine the design of government, the rationale for civic education, and the role of spiritual formation in the classroom, ultimately seeing civics as an extension of discipleship and mission.

Category: Faculty Leadership

Course: Transformation Through Biblical Higher Education

Summary: The people and curriculum the chief academic officer leads ought to reflect our deep passion for providing a transformative education that embodies Anselm of Canterbury’s “fides quaerens intellectum” (faith seeking understanding). On the other hand, we should also be convinced that a well-rounded education entails more than the mere pursuit of truth, it must also shape the person and in turn, the culture. This course provides a framework to understand how your calling and spiritual health drive transformative education.

Category: Faculty Leadership

Course: Understanding Biblical Integration

Summary: This course equips educators and learners with a foundational understanding of biblical integration, helping them navigate vast amounts of information while grounding their knowledge and practices in a biblical worldview. Using practical analogies and interdisciplinary approaches, the course emphasizes the unity and multifaceted nature of truth, fostering collaboration and holistic discipleship.

Category: Financial Leadership

Course: CFO Roles and Responsibilities

Summary: This course equips Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) in Christian higher education with the knowledge and tools to provide sound financial oversight, foster trust through transparency, and strategically guide their institutions toward long-term sustainability. Drawing from best practices in financial management, forecasting, stakeholder communication, and crisis response, participants explore the multifaceted role of the chief financial officer as leader, counselor, guardian, and financial “prophet.”

Category: Presidential Leadership

Course: Getting Started Well: The President's First 100 Days

Summary: This course is designed specifically for new college and university presidents navigating their critical first hundred days in office. With the average presidency lasting fewer than six years, the patterns established early matter enormously. Learners will explore the relational, financial, and personal dimensions of the presidency, including building trust and clarifying roles with the governing board and executive team, cultivating relationships with key stakeholders, understanding the college's business model, and developing the personal rhythms that make a long, faithful presidency possible. The goal is not to hand new presidents a playbook, but to give them a clearer map of the terrain ahead and help them begin asking the right questions from the start.

Category: Presidential Leadership

Course: Leading an Institution as a Spiritual Enterprise

Summary: This course equips Christian institutional leaders to steward their organizations as spiritually vibrant communities. Drawing from Scripture and decades of pastoral and presidential experience, Dr. Michael Pawelke unpacks the high calling of leadership in biblical higher education. It is not simply an administrative function but a deeply spiritual responsibility. In these lessons, you will explore how to cultivate spiritual vibrancy on campus, cast a transformative vision for students, shepherd faculty and staff with pastoral care, anchor their communities in prayer and Scripture, and multiply spiritual leadership across all levels – from the boardroom to the classroom.

Category: Presidential Leadership

Course: The Heart of the President

Summary: This course explores the essence of servant leadership as modeled by Jesus Christ and applied to the unique context of leading a Christian college or university. Through biblical teaching, personal testimony, and practical wisdom drawn from decades of experience, you will discover how humility, integrity, gratitude, and vision shape transformational leadership. The course emphasizes both the inner life of the leader and the shared vision of the institution, equipping participants to lead with sincerity, courage, and hope.

Category: Student Development Leadership

Course: Excellent Student Development Leadership

Summary: This course equips new and developing Student Development Officers (SDOs) with the vision, tools, and relational strategies essential for thriving in their role. From wearing multiple hats as managers, mentors, and shepherds to cultivating student leadership, maintaining spiritual vibrancy, and partnering effectively across campus, you will gain insight into both the big-picture mission and the daily practices that shape a healthy campus culture. This course prepares SDOs to serve with humility, integrity, and strategic impact in today’s rapidly changing higher education landscape.

Category: Student Development Leadership

Course: High-Performance Student Development Teams

Summary: This course equips student development leaders with the mindset, strategies, and relational tools needed to build high-performing, mission-aligned teams in Christian higher education. Through practical lessons on hiring and firing well, cultivating trust-based culture, developing meaningful mission statements, and enriching both students and staff, participants will learn how to lead with clarity, compassion, and purpose. Grounded in real-life experience and spiritual wisdom, the course offers actionable insights to help leaders not only manage their teams, but empower them to transform student lives.

Category: Student Development Leadership

Course: Strengths-Based Leadership

Summary: This course equips current and emerging leaders with a practical, biblically grounded framework for identifying, developing, and deploying their God-given strengths. You will explore the philosophy of strengths-based leadership, learning to shift from a deficit-focused mindset to one that emphasizes growth, contribution, and team synergy. Through tools like CliftonStrengths and Working Genius, learners will gain hands-on experience assessing personal and team strengths, coaching student leaders, and crafting roles that align with individual talents. By the end of the course, you will be prepared to lead with authenticity, build stronger teams, and disciple others to serve effectively in their unique callings.