The Flourishing Culture Leadership Podcast

Today I'm reminded of "It's a Wonderful Life", a trend-setting film, way ahead of its time. When it comes to trends, I appreciate what Director Frank Capra said, "Don't follow trends, start trends." In the next few minutes I want to give you seven workplace trends that organizations are likely to start in 2019. To help me with this, I've asked Mark Cutshall, our writer on the Flourishing Culture Podcast, to join me as our guest host. Welcome, Mark. Find full show notes here http://blog.bcwinstitute.org/s3e59-workplace-trends-2019/

Today we have the pleasure of talking with Miles McPherson, Lead Pastor, of The Rock Church, a multi-site congregation with five campuses in San Diego. Hi Miles, and welcome to our podcast, today. Find full show notes here http://blog.bcwinstitute.org/s3e58-miles-mcpherson/

Sitting across from me, today, is one the most gifted, experienced professionals who really understands how to build a healthy organizational culture. In the next few minutes, he's going to walk us through a proven strategy designed to help you increase the success of every new employee starting out in your organization. Who wouldn't want that? I want to welcome in Chad Carter, Senior Director of Human Resources for The Gideons International. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, The Gideons International focuses on telling people about Jesus through associating together for service, sharing personal testimony, and by providing Bibles, New Testaments, or portions in 95 languages through 200 countries. For the past 7 years, Chad has played a huge leadership role in this legendary ministry organization. Hi Chad, and welcome to our podcast, today. Find full show notes here http://blog.bcwinstitute.org/s3e37-chad-carter/

How do you help ensure the effectiveness and impact of your organization? The answer is by building a healthy, flourishing, sustainable culture. And the way to do that is by knowing these six measures of leadership excellence that drive such a culture. Our guest today knows inspirational leadership inside and out. What she has to say about inspirational leadership could be golden and transformational for your culture. Today we have the pleasure of visiting with Tami Heim, President of Christian Leadership Alliance (CLA). CLA is equipping and uniting more than 6,000 mission-focused Christians who lead today's high-impact nonprofit ministries, churches, educational institutions and businesses. Tami has been actively involved in the CLA community for more than 6 years, and we have great respect for her. Find full show notes here http://blog.bcwinstitute.org/s3e6-tami-heim-cla

Today we have the pleasure of talking with Steve Machhia, Founder and President of Leadership Transformations. Based in Lexington, Massachusetts, and with offices in Colorado Springs and Houston, Leadership Transformations holds up the clear foundational truth that "a transformed leader is a transformed organization." Hi Steve, and welcome to the Flourishing Culture Podcast. Find full show notes here http://blog.bcwinstitute.org/s3e57-steve-macchia/

Barry Slauenwhite has had a remarkable 34 years with Compassion Canada. In his time as President and CEO, Compassion Canada has experienced more than a 10-fold growth to become one of Canada's largest Christian Non-Profit. Barry, welcome to the Flourishing Culture Podcast. There's a question I want to ask you that gets at one of the big reasons behind Compassion Canada's remarkable growth. Before I ask you this question, give us a brief summary of what Compassion is all about. Find full show notes here http://blog.bcwinstitute.org/s3e56-barry-slauenwhite/

We're often asked, are their better times than others to start measuring the health of your staff culture? We believe one of the best times is when there is a transition to a new top leader. Today we will find out if that's true, even if your father was the previous leader! Seacoast Church in Charleston, South Carolina, is known as one of the most innovative churches around and is often credited with being the first multisite church in the country. Greg Suratt is Seacoast's Founding Pastor and is now leading the Association of Related Churches known as (ARC). Today we have the pleasure to talking with Greg's son, Josh Surratt, who is Lead Pastor atSeacoast Church. And with Josh is his wife, Lisa Surratt, who serves as Seacoast's Director of Culture. Josh, Lisa, welcome to the Flourishing Culture Podcast! Find full show notes here http://blog.bcwinstitute.org/s3-e32-josh-and-lisa-surratt/

In the next few minutes, you're going to learn six personal powerful convictions that have turned a church culture and its ministries upside-down. These six truths are so applicable to almost every church, you'll say, "Wait, you're telling our story, our struggles, and our desire to improve the health of our culture." The man with the remarkable story to tell is Jeff Lockyer, Lead Pastor at Southridge Community Church in St. Catharines, Ontario Canada. Find full show notes here http://blog.bcwinstitute.org/s3e54-jeff-lockyer/

360 Degree Feedback for Pastors and Christian leaders is something we are asked about frequently. Today we have the pleasure of visiting with Joel Engle, Pastor of Preaching and Vision of ChangePoint Church in Anchorage, Alaska. Joel and his leadership team recently experienced a 360 process that was quite eye opening. Find full show notes here http://blog.bcwinstitute.org/s3e53-joel-engle/

Imagine you're the president of a church denomination of 2,000 individual congregations. You're responsible for scores of pastors, their ministry teams, and hundreds of missionaries across the world. How do you deal with competing interests, complex issues and people under your care who are both working down the hall and dispersed around the world? Our guest, today, is going to tell us how he's handled it all—and not only survived, but in fact, thrived! He's going to offer insight and wisdom on how inspirational leadership can go a long way to creating a healthy culture. Believe me, you're in for a treat. Today we have the pleasure of visiting with John Stumbo, President of The Christian and Missionary Alliance denomination. Find the full show notes here: http://blog.bcwinstitute.org/s3e5-john-stumbo-cma