Developing Female Leaders

Navigate the Minefields and Release the Potential of Women in Your Church

By: Kadi Cole

Narrated by: Nan Kelley

What would your church look like if it maximized the dormant gifts of the women God has brought there? Discover how to develop and leverage the leadership abilities of women within your congregation.

Leadership and people development veteran Kadi Cole offers a practical strategy to help church and organizational leaders craft cultures that facilitate the development of women as volunteer and staff leaders.

In Developing Female Leaders, Cole shares eight easy-to-implement “best practices” that help accelerate a woman’s organizational contribution, such as:

• Seek to understand
• Clearly define what you believe
• Mine the marketplace
• Integrate spiritual formation and leadership development
• Be an “other”
• Create an environment of safety
• Upgrade your people practices
• Take on your culture

Combined with current research, thorough appendices and references add even more guidance for setting vision, milestones, and goals. Using interviews and surveys of more than one thousand women in key church and organizational roles, Developing Female Leaders is a one-of-a-kind resource for identifying what is missing today in your church to help it flourish in the future.

Every Senior Pastor Should Read This Book

Though most of the book is written to females struggling to find their voice in leadership. This book has more than a few eye-opening points that could very well help male leaders integrate their female leaders into their roles.

Great read for any leadership level

This is a great read for anyone looking to develop female leaders or be developed!

Excellent book!

Excellent book! I could relate to so much in this book. It’s a timely message for church leaders.

outstanding leadership perspective

as a woman in a leadership position, feeling unworthy or unsure come with the territory, and hurts my ability to live fully in my gifts and to encourage others to find and embrace their gifts. this is a great resource to confidently overcome, remembering God's grace upon me. highly recommend.

FRESH IDEAS

The author brings up very practical and fresh concepts for how to develop female leaders. She is also proactive and positive in her approach that feels very empowering and collaborative between men and women. This is a great resource I'll return to again and again.