Tod Bolsinger, MDiv, PhD, the co-owner and principal of AE Sloan Leadership, Inc, an executive coaching and consulting firm that works with church, non-profit, and marketplace leaders in leading change.
He is also the Executive Director of the De Pree Center Church Leadership Institute, a Senior Fellow of the De Pree Center for Leadership, and Associate Professor of Leadership Formation at Fuller Theological Seminary, was the founder of the Fuller Leadership Platform, an innovative approach to online formation and leadership development and served as a Vice President of Fuller Seminary for six years. Prior to his educational career, he served as a pastor for 27 years.
Tod is the author of five books, including the Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year in pastoral leadership, Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory, Leadership for a Time of Pandemic: Practicing Resilience and most recently, Tempered Resilience: How Leaders are Formed in the Crucible of Change.
Tod is married to Beth, an executive coach, consultant and professional artist. They have two adult children, Brooks and Ali, and a son-in-law, Ben. An avid outdoor lover, if he hadn’t taken biology after lunch in high school, Tod would have been a National Park Ranger. When he retires, he is going to do hiking trail maintenance, trout rescue, and be a ski host who makes sure there are four people on every quad chair lift.
He can be reached at Bolsinger@fuller.edu
Tod Bolsinger is one of our featured keynote speakers.
His session is titled: “Thriving in the Leadership Crucible”
Edwin Friedman called it “the most important aspect of leadership”, but most of us have never had so much as a seminary class on the topic. Others of us don’t really believe it when we are told it is so, let alone receive training in how to overcome it. In this presentation, Tod Bolsinger, author of Tempered Resilience: How leaders are formed in the crucible of change, will help us face and be formed in the most soul-sucking part of leadership: the resistance and sabotage of our own people.