Elan Babchuck: Picking up the Pieces- Leadership after Empire

Elan Babchuck is a rabbi and co-author with Kathleen McShane of Picking Up the Pieces: Leadership After Empire. In pursuit of leaving behind a world that is more compassionate and connected than the one he found, Elan serves as the Executive Vice President at Cal, the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. Over the years, Elan has guided over 150 successful startups along with many of his own. An avid TedX speaker, Elan has also been public in The Atlantic, The Guardian, and Washington Post. Despite the Exodus' creation thousands of years ago, religious organizations continue to operate under the shadows of the pyramids the Israelites once built. In Picking Up the Pieces: Leadership after Empire, Elan believes that these leadership models reward consolidation of power at the expense of the freedom below. This, he argues, is not the way of the gospel, and attributes previous leadership failures to their empirical structure. Elan calls for a leadership models where power is shared, rather than hoarded. Picking Up the Pieces: Leadership after Empire speaks to leaders who are ready to shift from over-functioning patterns, and instead share power so that it multiplies- leading their people fully engage in the life-giving promise that awaits them.