Cornerstone Leadership Institute Debuts

Training and research are the capstones of the Cornerstone Leadership Institute (CLI). Whether you are an entrepreneur or executive seeking to improve your personal leadership quotient through our individual coaching program or a manager looking for leadership development of your team, the CLI has the leadership program for you. Non-profits can equally benefit from our training programs. Due to their modular format, these leadership programs can be tailored to meet the needs and budget of each individual client or organization.

Leadership Training. The CLI offers leadership training for groups as well as on the individual coaching level. The topics include the leadership basics of vision casting, critical thinking, strategy development, team dynamics, work-life balance, and effective communication. Other more focused programs explore leading innovation, developing talent and empowering people, inspiring collaboration, mastering the distinction between management and leadership, and leveraging an improved leadership quotient for better decision making. Local, regional, national, and global economic development are overarching conduits through which much of this leadership training flows.

Leadership Research. The CLI is engaged on the cutting edge of academic research through the extant effort of the staff. Each of our senior fellows and research fellows are pursuing their respective research interest both in praxis and theoretical research. Follow the links after each staff member bio to learn more about their specific research interests.

Gerhart Completes Initial Term of PhD Program

After being accepted and enrolling in the PhD in Organizational Leadership program at Regent University in August 2017, Ken Gerhart has successfully completed the first semester and is now navigating the voluminous pre-reading required for the Spring semester beginning in mid January 2018.  The Regent PhD program has a rather unique feature in that 15 of the required 60 hours of coursework can be designated as a concentration.  Gerhart has chosen the Ecclesial concentration, which is akin to a theology program of study without the languages. While theology is an area of focus, it will be accomplished under the umbrella of organizational leadership.

Gerhart's particular research interest is developing an overarching theology of leadership that uncovers the imbrications of the timeless truths of Christian scripture and academic understanding of contemporary leadership theory under which a comprehensive taxonomy can be codified. As such, developing a proto-taxonomy is the first step in an iterative process that will evolve over the course
of this research.

Such a proto-taxonomy - depicted in Figure 1, sets forth a dynamic leadership model with the following emerging constructs: Ontology of Leadership; Shepherd Leadership: Moses, David & Jesus; Counter-Social Leadership: Descending into Greatness; Pauline Leadership: Development, Maintenance & Succession; Sanctification & Transformational Leadership; Spiritual Intelligence: A Hermeneutical Context; Christological Leadership: Kenotic to Pleromatic; and, Trinitarian Leadership: Team Dynamics of the Godhead.  When aligned, each of these constructs will undergird the overall theory of a theology of leadership.