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Angie Ward is a leader, teacher, writer, and pastor\u2019s wife. She is an award-winning regular contributor to Christianity Today leadership publications and has served as a contributing editor and editorial advisor for Leadership Journal, Building Church Leaders, and Gifted for Leadership. She is also a highly regarded teacher and speaker, with classroom experience at Denver Seminary, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Trinity International University, and Lancaster Bible College. Her leadership experience includes roles in church, parachurch, nonprofit, and educational contexts. Angie\u2019s latest book, I Am a Leader: When Women Discover the Joy of their Calling releases from NavPress in March 2020.\n\nPre-order Angie's book https://www.amazon.com/Am-Leader-Women-Discover-Calling/dp/164158176X/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?keywords=I+am+a+leadre+angie+wardandqid=1578767516andsr=8-1-fkmr0 (here).\n\nLEADERSHIP INSIGHTS\n\n- Calling: \u201cA God-given conviction about your life\u2019s direction.\u201d\n- Leadership is about who you are more than your position.\n- Leadership involves movement toward a vision (KNOW your vision)\n- Take time to step back and figure out what that vision that your leading toward is.\n- Leadership: \u201cInfluence on people to movement toward a vision.\u201d\n- Be aware of the systems you live in and how you can influence them.\n\nQUESTIONS TO INSPIRE US TO ACTION\n\n- What is some lesson, saying, or experience that continues to influence your leadership to this day? Leadership flows from who you are, not what you do.\n- Use three descriptors to finish this sentence: \u201cA leader is\u2026\u201d Teachable, humble, a steward.\n- What is a question that leaders should be asking either themselves or others? What and who am I responsible to steward?\n- What book would you recommend to leaders? A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix by Edwin Friedman\n- If you could get every listener to start doing something THIS week to help them be a better leader, what would it be? Sit quietly for 10 minutes a day and not worry about \u201cdoing\u201d\u2014just be, sit, and listen.\n- As a general life principle, is it better to ask \u201cwhy?\u201d or \u201cwhy not?\u201d \u201cWhy not?\u201d because with \u201cwhy?\u201d you can get stuck in analysis paralysis.\n\nWebsite:\nhttp://www.angieward.net\n\nContact:\nangie@proregnum.com\n\nFind Angie on social media:\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/indyaward (@indyaward)\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/indyaward/ (@indyaward)