Biblical Leadership @ Work

Jeshua Lauka is an attorney based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Devoted to advancing effective biblical leadership, Jeshua shares profound insights into what it means to be a servant leader in all spheres of life. 

Beyond his professional journey, he opens up about his powerful personal testimony rooted in resilience and faith. Join us as we explore how God's work has shaped Jeshua's life and leadership principles, ...

In this period I interview Jordan Raynor about his newly released book, The Sacredness of Secular Work. Jordan is an author, podcaster, entrepreneur, and Elder at his local church. 

Through his bestselling books (The Creator in You, Redeeming Your Time, Master of One, and Called to Create), the Mere Christians podcast, and his weekly devotionals, Jordan has helped millions of Christians in every country on earth connect t...

Leonard McElveen has over 40 years of leadership experience, mostly focused in leading homeless missions in Michigan and Colorado. Listen in and hear about his incredible conversion as a drug dealer to a faithful follower of Christ.

Leonards offers a ton of excellent leaders advice along with much biblical wisdom for all Believers.

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In this episode we interview Andy Rowles who is an experienced executive in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry. Listen in as we discuss how his faith in Christ has influenced his work, what practical steps he takes when traveling to ensure he isn't drawn away by temptation, and his thoughts on the most important leadership principles. Andy also discusses he and his wife's experience adopting 3 girls from China.

Michael Sytsma has nearly 20 years of leadership experience in the banking industry, as well as many leadership roles in non-profits. Join me today as we discuss servant leadership, what Michael has learned through the years, and about a ministry he is involved in and very passionate about.

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Scott LaPierre is a pastor, husband, father to 10, and an author. In this months episode we discuss his book, Work and Rest Gods Way and explore the topic of work from a Biblical worldview.

Listen in as we cover topics such as as avoiding idolizing work or laziness.  We also discuss some thoughtful considerations before changing jobs as well as  biblical principles for working moms.

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Join me today and meet Gary Harpst. We discuss his new book, Built to Beat Chaos. 

Gary shares some of his very insightful thoughts on several topics regarding biblical leadership, such as - 

• Why love is such a critical factor in effectiveness
• How advances in technology have increased while advances in human relations have stalled and probably regressed
• How chaos refines us as Believers

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Join me as we meet Sheri Welsh, President of Welsh and Associates, a professional recruiting firm in Southwest Michigan. Listen in as we discuss 

• Sheri's view on servant leadership 
• Why the devil shouldn't get all the money 
• How traumatic experiences help us to become better leaders

You can connect with Sheri on LinkedIn or through her website.

Sheri also host a podcast called The Welsh Wire

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Nancy Lewis is the owner and CEO of Progressive Techniques, a leadership consulting firm which has been in business for 27 years. She is also a Board Chair for a girls elementary Christian school.

Nancy is a passionate mentor and people developer. In todays episode we discuss her professional work as well as her focus on mentoring young women and teaching children. Listen in as we discuss her approach to leadership as wel...

Join Scott King and I as we discuss the critical importance of managing your time well and building genuine relationships with your team. I interviewed Scott in my first podcast and invited him back to speak with me on these two important topics.

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Mary Guirovich is an entrepreneur, author, wife, mother, and experienced executive. While working to grow in her own career, she developed a proven process that she now uses to help and coach others with. She is a leadership coach and is passionate about helping other women to excel in their career and glorify Christ in the process.

This episode is packed full of useful advice and tools focused on leadership development. ...

Join me today as I sit down with Dr. Jerry Zandstra to discuss the topic of emotional intelligence and why Christians leaders should understand this important concept.

Dr. Zandstra has an extremely broad range of experience and education encompassing Pastoral Ministry, Theology, Entrepreneurship, Consulting, and Education. He brings a tremendous depth of knowledge on leadership topics, coupled with practical wisdom for ap...

Peggy Bodde is an experienced executive, wife, mother, writer, and entrepreneur. Listen in as we discuss several dramatic career changes God has led her through in the past few decades and how He sustained her through several challenging life events.  Peggy shares about a difficult childhood,  being a single mom, and her path to becoming an entrepreneur as a writer and author. She also shares her three leadership principles and we ...

Jim Merkle is an experienced retail operations leader, veteran Marine, husband of nearly 30 years, and father to 3 sons. He is passionate and practical about loving his people and serving them, as they serve the customer.

Listen in on our conversation as Jim shares his views on leadership, his story of faith, and how he went from being a "bad cop" leader, to a leader who loves on his people.

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Jeralyn Belote is the Head of School for a Pre-k through 12 Christian school in Battle Creek Mi. She has been leading this team for close to 10 years. She is also a wife of 20 years and a mom to three boys. God has led her and her husband Ben all the way to Japan for several years and back to Ben's hometown on the family farm, where he runs his own business and Jeralyn is leading this growing school. You won't want to mis...

Join me this month as we meet Josh Baird. Josh is the owner and operator of Next Level Performance, an organization helping student athletes excel both physically and build character and leadership skills for life.

Josh has an interesting career story that God used to lead him to finally own his own business and impact the lives of hundreds of athletes and families. Join me as we discuss sports, raising kids, working in st...

David Roth is the CEO of Workmatters, which is an organization focused on helping workplace Believers effectively integrate their Christian faith and work. David has an amazing story of how God led through some highs and lows in his life and career, before becoming the first formal CEO of this organization nearly two decades ago. Tune in and learn his story and about this important organization.

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Join me this month as we meet the Head Coach for men's soccer at Calvin University, Ryan Souders. Ryan has over a decade of experience leading young to be better sportsmen and to grow in their faith.  Ryan is married with 2 young children and another on the way. He has been greatly inspired in his faith by his own father and you will get to hear that as well as some great leadership insight on this episode!

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