Leaders in Living Rooms

Pat Gelsinger joins Sean Morgan to talk through Pat's journey from a farming family in Pennsylvania to becoming Glassdoor's #1 CEO in the country in 2019 at VMware and co-founder of Transforming the Bay with Christ. Pat's technology background provides a new light to our ongoing conversation on transition. Listen in as he humbly provides excellent leadership advice centered around leading with vision and shaping culture.

Ken Costa shares insight amidst rapidly changing church methods, the spiritual context of church in our homes, and staying relevant as a leader and influencer with age. Ken is a renowned investment banker, Chairman Emeritus of Alpha International, and author of several books: God at Work, Know Your Why, Strange Kingdom, and Joseph of Arimathea: The Extraordinary Calling of Ordinary People.

In this episode of Leaders in Living Rooms, Sean Morgan sits down with Dave Stone to reflect back on following founder Bob Russell at Southeast Christian Church, then passing the baton last year to Kyle Idleman, and now his interim role at Harvest Bible Chapel.

In the rapid move to church online, communicators need a crash course on how to communicate more effectively. No longer is there a large room full of people you can be eye-to-eye with—you've now got families gathering together around screens in their living rooms and kitchens. Your style of communication must adapt. Steve Carter brings wisdom worth following. Please visit our website for the full content of Steve's blogpost.

In this episode of Leaders in Living Rooms, Sean Morgan sits down with James Grogan and Mike Meeks from Eastlake Church to talk leadership transition, multisite mergers, being boldly honest, team culture, and raising up young leaders. After 20 years of Mike's faithful leadership at Eastlake, in 2017 he handed off the Lead Pastor role to James Grogan. Listen in on their story of healthy succession.

This episode of Leaders In Living Rooms is the second part of a conversation Sean Morgan had with Kenton Beshore to further study the Mariners Church transition one-on-one. They talked very openly and honestly through this journey, looking at the personal identity associated with senior leadership. Don't miss out on their discussion of philosophies and paradigms to better understand leadership and transitions.

Sean Morgan sits down with Kenton and Laurie Beshore to discuss ministry transitions. They will unpack the highs and lows of a megachurch succession from their years of ministry. Kenton and Laurie go deep and personal in what has been a 15-year planned transition at Mariners Church.

Sean sits down with David Kinnaman, president of Barna Group, a leading research and communications company that works with churches, nonprofits, and businesses ranging from film studios to financial services. Sean and David discuss the crisis of church leadership transitions, groundbreaking research on what's happening after the baton pass in succession, staying past your prime, and staying on mission.

Aaron Brockett is the lead pastor of Traders Point Christian Church in Indianapolis. Twelve years after taking over leadership of Traders Point, Aaron looks back at the growth, misses, and wins from his years of ministry. Listen in for great insight on building trust and bringing change through transition.  

Brady Boyd is the Senior Pastor of the multi-congregational New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. For the last ten years he has been pastoring a church while leading on a foundation of love. Years after stepping into his positions at New Life, a story of leadership transition done well is on display.