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The Heart of the Leader | Cultivating a Spiritually Healthy Heart

Content Contributor: Lead Like Jesus
Facilitator: Tami Heim, CCNL - President & CEO
Category: CCNL Elective

Last Day to Register: Mar 25, 2024
Module Start Date: Apr 01, 2024

Learning Objectives

This course is designed to provide every leader, regardless of their life role or position, a better understanding of why our heart matters most in our leadership journey, what Jesus, the greatest leader of all time, teaches about the importance of the heart, and how we can practically embrace Jesus’ model of leading and influencing others in our day-to-day living. Upon completion, the participant should better understand why the heart of a leader matters, how to recognize a spiritually healthy and an unhealthy heart, and practical ways to lead with a healthy heart committed to the Father and not to the bottom line or selfish ambition.

Module Overview

Defining our "why" is not an easy task. It requires soul-searching, understanding one's core life values, and a desire for a destination that's much more than pure profit or personal success. Because we believe that successful leadership begins on the inside, this course intentionally focuses on a leader's heart motivation, our "why" first.

This course will explore critical questions every leader must answer, the differences between a spiritually healthy and an unhealthy heart, and how understanding and embracing our identity and an accurate self-awareness will make us much more effective influencers.  This course also serves as an elective for the Credential Christian Nonprofit program.

Requirements for Receiving Credit

Credit for the course will be determined on the following criteria:
  • Successful completion and submission of five Reflection assignments demonstrating that the participant has read the required resources and reviewed the presentation content;
  • Engagement in all five topic forum discussions

Required Textbooks

All required reading will be available in the course once it begins.

Facilitator Bio

Tami Heim, CCNL - President & CEO
Tami Heim has been the president and CEO of Christian Leadership Alliance since January 2012. Her professional career includes executive leadership experience in technology, marketing, publishing, and retail. She has served as a partner in The A Group – Brand Development, executive vice president and chief publishing officer for Thomas Nelson Publishers, and as the president of Borders, Inc. After graduating from Purdue University, she entered the management training program at Federated Department Stores and continued to serve in various leadership roles until she left in 1996. At the time of her departure, she was responsible for the operations of the LAZARUS and Goldsmith’s chains. Tami was certified in for-profit board governance through The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Her nonprofit board experience includes serving on the boards of EQUIP, Lead Like Jesus, Christian Alliance for Orphans, and Growing Leaders. Christianity Today, and Christian Leadership Alliance.  She completed the Christian Credentialed Nonprofit Leader  (CCNL) program in 2013 and now facilitates the online CCNL-Leadership Course for the Alliance. Tami and her husband, Dale, delight in their family and are actively involved in ministry at Long Hollow Church. Since 2010, they have been leading mission teams to Haiti.  In 2014, they adopted their youngest daughter from that country. Tami welcomes the opportunity to share more about the Christian Leadership Alliance and its vision for the future!