Righteous Leadership

All the way from Senegal, the Lord is bringing a fresh revelation of the true meaning of Righteous Leadership

What an authorized label is to products, so are the righteous standards to the Children of the Kingdom. This episode with our guest, John Phelps, is powerful!

1. Diversity is being invited to the table
2. Inclusion is having a voice at the table
3. Belonging is having a say in what will be discussed (aka agenda) at the table.

We only get to belonging through Righteous Unity

This is a special episode. It is our 30th. It is rich. Get your pen and paper ready. Get lots of paper. Our guest, Michael Pink is a fountain of wisdom.

In this episode, Dr. James Choung, Vice President InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA for Strategy & Innovation shares with us a fresh perspective of Righteous Leadership. Dr. Choung noted that righteous leadership is a rightness in our leadership that is both moral and just.

This is just one of many pearls of wisdom delivered by Dr. Choung on today's podcast.

I promise you will be pressing pause and rewind several times to capture his thoughts.

We are living in a time where the world is hungry for Righteous Leadership. Every possible iteration or dimension of leadership has been brought forth, but today, all of creation is on tiptoes looking, with great anticipation, for this new breed of leadership. 

Usually, I am the host, interviewing others for their perspective on Rightewous Leadership, but in this episode, you will hear my heart, passion, and depth from which the vision of Righteous Leadership was birth.

Enjoy!

Get your pen and paper. You will be graced with key nuggets from our guest, Kara Martin, 2017, 2019 Short Listed Australian Christian Book of the year. Kara shares with us a key ingredient for us to be reconciled to that place of worship. It's a place "where work and worship become a whole in one."

Kara Martin is the author of Workship: How to Use Your Work to Worship God, and Workship 2: How to Flourish at Work. She is a lecturer with Alphacrucis and Mary Andrews College, and was formerly Associate Dean of the Marketplace Institute at Ridley College. She is also the Workplace Ministry Advisor for Lausanne South Pacific Region and on the Advisory Board for the Global Lausanne Movement on Workplace Ministry. 

Kara has worked in media and communications, human resources, business analysis, and policy development roles, in a variety of organizations, and as a consultant. She is researching the variables for effective faith–work integration of workplace Christians. Kara is also a sought after speaker who has presented, taught and run workshops in Singapore, Malaysia, the US, New Zealand and throughout Australia.

In this episode, we will go deep into the heart of the righteous leader. We will hear from my friend Dr. Jonathan Chung, a material scientist, and Professor from Hong Kong.

Dr. Chung shares with us:

1) The role of the Righteous Leader in the midst of the Coronavirus Outbreak.

2) The clear distinction between the words "Righteous" and "Leadership"

3) The clear distinction between Servant Leadership and Righteous Leadership 

4) The courage of Righteous Leaders

5) That a righteous leader will speak up against political correctness and bureaucracy  

6) That a righteous leader looks past his/her risk of loss for the greater good

7) What is required for Righteous Leadership to become a movement (a way of life)

8) The correlation between Righteous leadership and Professionalism 

9) That Righteous Leaders Finish Well

10) It takes EFFORT to be a righteous leader

11) The Righteous leader seeks the heavenly reward

12) The Righteous Leader NEVER works alone

and MUCH more .......

Over the past two decades Liberia has suffered from two viruses: Ebola and corruption. One is far worse than the other.  

I can think of no one more suited to impart to us pearls of wisdom from today's episode. Jeff has been active in ministry for over 25 years. He joined UMI in 1994 after a career that included working for Johnson & Johnson, where he was a winner of the Johnson & Johnson Leadership Award and Bristol Myers Squibb. Jeff’s educational background includes prep school education at St. Albans School (The National Cathedral School for Boys) in his hometown of Washington, D.C., and a B.A. degree with honors from Fisk University. He earned his Juris Doctorate (JD) from Georgetown University Law School and was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar and the U.S. Supreme Court Bar. He earned an MBA in Finance and International Business from Columbia University Graduate School of Business in New York and completed additional study at the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) and Harvard Law School. Jeff is the author of the book and media literacy Bible study guide God’s Vision or Television: How Television Influences What We Believe and is also a contributing author to the book Nonprofit Leadership in a For-Profit World. He has four children and is married to Lakita Garth Wright.

Often times it is difficult to see the value of inaction or the seemingly incongruent seasons of life. We later discover that all along it was training ground in God's eyes.

So what's in your training ground?

What you do for the kingdom is an assignment....What you do for hire is an engagement. We sow our gift for an assignment.