By Hyveth Williams – Berrien Springs, Michigan … If you are a woman leading in church, parish, educational, or organizational ministry, Equipping Women for Effective Leadership (EWEL), is a Doctor of Ministry degree just for you!

Launching October 4, 2021, the first intensive, Women and Gender, is designed by Course Facilitator, Dr. Janet Ledesma, Associate Dean & Professor, Educational Leadership Coordinator, College of Education & International Services. Dr. Ledesma created a rigorous course to help you explore and enhance your unique skills as a spiritual and effective woman leader through the personal development of a leadership plan that will affect positive and spiritually sound changes in the organizations where God has chosen you to serve.

In many ways, women remain underrepresented in top leadership positions in America and globally. This course will help women learn and identify the internal factors within them and external factors impacting them to become courageous spiritual women of God in leadership.

This Andrews University Doctor of Ministry degree, lauded as a national innovation specifically for women, will develop your full spiritual and professional potential as a woman in leadership in your church, organization, community, and home. By maximizing your potential, participants will be able to enhance the unique strengths, skills, values, and traits God has given to make effective, lasting connections to work and people.

REGISTER NOW AND OBTAIN:

  • Skills and tools to enhance your unique traits and characteristics as a spiritual leader to effectively develop and empower those you serve.
  • Ability to develop and maintain relationships, connections, and interpersonal interactions that drive spiritual growth and innovation in the places you serve.
  • Personalized development plan to identify your strengths and guide you towards achieving your goals as a Christian woman in leadership.
  • Opportunity to interact with like-minded women from diverse backgrounds seeking to add value to the organizations and institutions in which you serve.

Some of the Course Topics for the first intensive, to be taught by Dr. Ledesma and female guests from a variety of professions, will address:

  • Womanhood of God
  • Women and Resilience
  • Women and Leadership
  • Women and Organization Conflict
  • Values driven leadership for Women
  • Emotional Intelligence and Women
  • Creativity and Innovation for women
  • Women Leading in Crisis
  • Women and Research

For more information contact Dr. Hyveth Williams, Director – 269-471-6363; the DMin Website – www.doctorofministry.comand https://www.andrews.edu/apply/

–Hyveth Williams, is director of  Doctor of Ministry program, Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University; photo supplied.

This article was original published on the NAD ministerial website.