Brad Lomenick on Leadership That Asks for Help, Dreams Big and Leads With Hope Instead of Cynicism
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In this episode Jason talks to Brad Lomenick. The conversation highlights the value of Christian leadership and the impact it has on a local level when pastors choose to prayerfully engage the community. In this episode, Lomenick unpacks the challenges that young pastors face including insecurity, finding balance between professional ambition and personal refreshment, and the benefits and blessings of unity amongst various theological tribes.
Also explored are the values of creativity, the importance of embracing continual change in this season, and the power of being willing to ask for help, even from those who seem inaccessible from a distance. Brad and Jason lean into the value of mentorship and creating environments where mentor-like relationships can naturally form along intergenerational lines.
On the whole this conversation brims with Brad’s cumulative wisdom and insight gleaned over decades of leading organizations and gathering influencers. The listener is invited to reject cynicism and embrace a contagious hope anchored in the continued movement of the Spirit and the subversive, unstoppable nature of God’s in-breaking kingdom.
Brad Lomenick
Brad is the former President of Catalyst and leadership consultant. Brad is a speaker, the founder of BLINC, and the author of The Catalyst Leader and H3 Leadership. He writes about leadership, the next generation, creativity, innovation, social media, teamwork, and personal growth.
“I am seeing this new kind of leader that is hidden. Not because they’re scared, but because they have this new perspective of what influence looks like.”
Brad’s Resources
Brad has written two books that have been a resource to hundreds of thousands of leaders all around the world. We want to encourage you to check out The Catalyst Leader and H3 Leadership.
The Catalyst Leader - Great leadership is crucial to organizational success, whether in the non-profit or for profit sphere. Authentic, collaborative, inspiring leaders who walk with integrity and energize those around them have never been more necessary. In The Catalyst Leader, Brad Lomenick describes the skills and principles that define a true leader who makes a difference. In this book Lomenick shares practical wisdom, and stories of success and failure from his own work of running Catalyst, a significant leadership movement over the last several years.
Leadership is difficult but the principles shared in this book will help take your influence to the next level.
H3 Leadership - What qualities or characteristics define the lives of dynamic, influential leaders? In the book H3, Brad Lomenick, highlights humility, hunger and hustle. These three powerful words describe the leader who works hard, gets stuff done, and lives for the good of others, not just their own personal achievement and success. More than that, this book identifies essential leadership habits and qualities, like staying open and being vulnerable, owning our convictions and principles, cultivating an appetite for what is next, pursuing innovation, demanding excellence and fostering collaboration etc.
Lomenick provides a simple but effective guide on how to lead well in whatever circumstance, situation or capacity the reader may be in.
Head to Brad Lomenick’s website for resources, latest book releases, and blog posts. His website exists to serve and equip leaders to grow in their leadership and influence. It is a great resource for anyone who is desiring to take that next step in their private growth and public influence.
“We need more unifiers. Most of us agree on the essentials, and just because we don’t agree on some non-essentials doesn’t mean we can’t work together.”
Youtube Links
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This episode was brought to you by Compassion Canada.
The mission of Compassion is to release children from poverty in Jesus’ name. And they’re doing exactly that in 25 different countries. Now, here is what is unique about Compassion—100% of their work is done in partnership with local churches. In fact, for many of the communities Compassion serves, they don’t know a large international NGO—they simply know the people of the local church who serve the most vulnerable in their community. Compassion’s heart for the local church extends here, to Canada, too. They are experts at equipping the Canadian church for mission in ways that are tailored to each church’s unique context. We want to encourage you to begin a transformative missions partnership with Compassion.
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Allison Alley
Allison Alley became the fourth President of Compassion Canada in October 2019 after joining the organization in 2012 to establish the Advocacy department. After spending more than a decade in leadership roles in the marketplace, God used her love for her own children to call her to be an advocate for all children, especially those living in poverty. Allison holds a Master of Arts in Global Leadership with an emphasis in International Development and Urban Studies from Fuller Theological Seminary’s School of Intercultural Studies, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Western Ontario’s Ivey Business School. She and her husband, Tommy, live in London, Ontario and have two young daughters.