The Leader's Journey podcast.
Tune in to The Leader's Journey podcast for bi-weekly conversations on leadership, emotional maturity, systems thinking, and more.
In each episode, our founders Jim and Trisha have a candid and insightful conversion with other or with a real-life leader in a church, nonprofit, or business. You'll leave each episode feeling inspired, challenged, and with practical ways to improve your leadership.
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Workshops, checklists, tip sheets, and templates to add to your leadership toolkit.
Two Feet Walking Workbook
We hope this workbook is helpful as you consider what it might look like to foster a more healthy congregation that is actively working toward a shared mission in the midst of the growing complexity of leadership and the increasingly rapid pace of change we are in today.
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Books We've Published
The Leader’s Journey: Accepting the Call to Personal and Congregational Transformation
by Jim Herington & Trisha Taylor
Backed by psychological research, Biblical principles, and congregational experiences, this is our step-by-step guide to transforming the lives of pastors and congregational lay leaders so that they can become truly effective leaders.
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Learning Change: Congregational Transformation Fueled by Personal Renewal
by Jim Herington & Trisha Taylor
Our model of church renewal, based on learning organization theory, adaptive leadership, family systems theory, recent discoveries in the neurosciences, and our own decades of experience leading churches through change.
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Leading Congregational Change: A Practical Guide for the Transformational Journey
by Jim Herrington, James H. Furr, and Mike Bonem
Simple-but-powerful concepts for leading congregations, whether long established or recently formed, through profound change.
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On Our Bookshelf
Books we’re reading and recommending right now.
Bolsinger, Tod Canoeing The Mountains
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Kellerman, Barbara. The End of Leadership
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Ibarra, Herminia. Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader.
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Sayer, Mark. A Non-Anxious Presence
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Scott, Halee Gray. Dare Mighty Things: Mapping the Challenges of Leadership for Christian Women.
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Walling, Terry. Unlikely Nomads
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Heifetz and Linsky. Leadership On the Line.
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Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline
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Herrington, Taylor and Creech. The Leader’s Journey.
BUY THIS BOOKKathleen Smith. Everything Isn’t Terrible
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Sagar, Ruth and Wiseman, Kathleen, editors. Understanding Organizations
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Creech, Robert. Family Systems and Congregational Life
BUY THIS BOOKRIchardson, Ronald. Becoming A Healthier Pastor
BUY THIS BOOKKerr, Michael. Bowen Theory’s Secrets
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Ronald Richardson. Polarization and the Healthier Church.
BUY THIS BOOKEdwin Friedman. A Failure of Nerve.
BUY THIS BOOKPeter Steinke. How Your Church Family Works.
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Roberta Gilbert. The 8 Concepts of Bowen Theory.
BUY THIS BOOKRoberta Gilbert. Extraordinary Relationships.
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Bradberry, Travis. Emotional Intelligence Habits
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Goleman, Daniel Working with Emotional Intelligence
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Kim Scott. Radical Candor.
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Brene Brown. Dare to Lead.
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Patterson and Grenny, et. al. Crucial Conversations.
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Lee, Cindy S. Our Unforming: De-Westernizing Spiritual Formation.
BUY THIS BOOKSternke, Ben and Tebbe, Matt Having the Mind of Christ
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Peterson, Eugene. A Long Obedience in the Same Direction
BUY THIS BOOKSteve Cuss. The Expectation Gap.
BUY THIS BOOKMandy Smith. Unfettered.
BUY THIS BOOKPhuc Luu. Jesus of the East.
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Scot McKnight. A Church Called Tov.
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Our Blog
Articles and resources published by our team of leadership coaches.
- November 6, 2025Uncategorized
Gratitude When Things Change
We have news to share . . . This news is good news, even though it represents a significant change at TLJ. I’ll let Jim speak for himself here: Dear...
- October 29, 2025Change/Transformation, Communication/Dialogue, Emotional Intelligence
When a Team Learns to Feel: The Hidden Work of Building Emotional Intelligence
When I first met The Brookstone Team (not their real name), they were a talented group of leaders in a fast-growing organization. They cared deeply about their mission and each...
- October 22, 2025Emotional Intelligence, Emotional Maturity, Leadership
Practical ways to cultivate emotional maturity as a form of discipleship
In my years of coaching pastors and leadership teams, I’ve come to believe that the emotional maturity of a congregation rarely rises above that of its leaders. If leaders are...
- October 15, 2025Leadership, Organizational Culture
EQ, Leadership and You
Let’s say that you’re starting a big project, one that really matters to you, and you get to choose a team of people to work with to make it happen....
