Leading Well
A Black Woman’s Guide to Wholistic, Barrier-Breaking Leadership
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Empowered to lead from the overflowing well of the Spirit
Affirmed by God, Black women are gifted, prepared, and poised to lead yet often face barriers that affect our well-being.
Have you been made to feel like an outsider within your company or church? Even at the top of your game, do you often struggle with the burden of being everything to everybody? Then you know well the unique opportunities and challenges of leading while Black and a woman.
Drawing from the biblical account of the Samaritan woman at the well, Jeanne Porter King shows how this outsider has been reduced to a stereotype by the same racist and sexist forces that attempt to reduce you to a stereotype and hinder your God-given call to leadership. King shows how God uniquely positioned and equipped her to lead her people to the truth despite attempts to keep her silent and small.
If you long to lead from a strong spiritual place of wholeness rather than a set of expectations you had no part in setting, this book offers you the inspiration, encouragement, and practical tools to make leading well a reality in your life.
"We are living in a time that desperately needs insightful, spiritual, and truthful leadership! In Leading Well, Jeanne shares her decades of professional experience, wealth of knowledge, and biblical insight to empower Black women leaders to live into their authentic identity and reach their full, God-given potential. If you're a leader who is ready to reimagine leadership with principles and practices that will bring new life and longevity to your work and ministry, this book is for you!"--Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil, author of Becoming Brave and Roadmap to Reconciliation
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"We are living in a time that desperately needs insightful, spiritual, and truthful leadership! In Leading Well, Jeanne shares her decades of professional experience, wealth of knowledge, and biblical insight to empower Black women leaders to live into their authentic identity and reach their full, God-given potential. If you're a leader who is ready to reimagine leadership with principles and practices that will bring new life and longevity to your work and ministry, this book is for you!"
Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil, author of Becoming Brave and Roadmap to Reconciliation
"Jeanne offers us a long-awaited and desperately needed spiritual road map for Black women's leadership. Attentive to the unique challenges and cultivated strengths of such leaders, Jeanne provides an insightful narrative, rich biblical exposition and application, and practical steps. In this book, we are seen, valued, equipped, and exhorted to faithful leadership."
Christina H. Edmondson, PhD, Certified Cultural Intelligence facilitator, public speaker, mental health therapist, and coauthor of Faithful Anti-Racism
"I always pay close attention to the writings of Jeanne Porter King. It is because I know her to be a critical and progressive thinker who passionately advocates for 'Justice' in both secular and sacred societies. Once again, through the narrative of another woman's story, Jeanne creates a pedagogy designed to teach us how to reclaim, reimagine, and reframe our experience of 'being and becoming' Black Christian women who lead. This book invites us to see through new lenses as we step into the Gospel of John chapter 4. We are enlightened by principles and practices by which we can live 'in' and live 'out' King's fresh revelations needed in these uncertain times. We are empowered to push through the restricting barriers into the dimension of spirituality, which fuels all other dimensions of our existence.
This book is an inspirited model written for our healing, health, and wellbeing.
I highly recommend this book to everyone whose assignment is to heal the world and establish the kingdom counterculture in the earth. A culture in which Black Christian women have a predestined place and purpose. This book summons us to class . . . at the well."Dr. Carolyn D. Showell, author of Discovering Wisdom in Chaos and president and founder of the Women's Institute of Learning and Leadership
"As an African American, Christian, woman entrepreneur, I needed Leading Well when my career and life journey began decades ago. It points with precision to the issues, difficulties, challenges, joys, privileges, and realities of being a Black woman in America. I have heard many sermons and lessons about the Samaritan woman at the well with Jesus. None have illuminated the poignant lessons of this well-known biblical story so profoundly. You will surely see yourself in the pages of this inspirational and empowering book. Jeanne shares transparently and lavishly from her own experiences in a way that makes her supremely relatable and relevant. While reading Leading Well, you will feel like Jeanne is a girlfriend, mentor, instructor, coach, and sister all at once. Leading Well helps the reader ask important questions of herself that are necessary for self-discovery, growth, and liberation. This book is a deep well of insight, instruction, encouragement, and wisdom. Leading Well is a must-read for Black women and our allies. It will move readers to a place of greater fulfillment and effectiveness."
Dr. Debbye Turner Bell, CEO/founder of Debbye Turner Bell Consulting, author of Courageous Faith, pastor, veterinarian, and Miss America 1990
"If you're leading at a feverish pitch, exhausted, short on patience and peace, and thin on time with Jesus, this is YOUR book. Practical, wise, and spiritually vibrant, Leading Well offers barrier-breaking, soul-centered strategies for women in racist, sexist cultures."
Mimi Haddad, PhD, president of CBE International
The Author
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Jeanne Porter King, PhD, is an author, consultant, pastor, and leadership coach specializing in women's leadership. A trusted teacher and guide who has taught leadership at both the undergrad and seminary levels, Dr. Porter King is the founder and president of...
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