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Global Leadership Institute

 

The Global Leadership Institute (GLI) at Andrews University is a professional leadership development initiative that started through support by the General Conference (GC) of Seventh-day Adventists. Administrators, department directors, principles, teachers, and pastors from around the globe have experienced the program and have found a powerful way to grow in leadership, with each other, and with God.

The mission of the GLI is to support the growth and multiplication of leaders across the globe, to help them fulfill their God-given mission. The GLI uses LeadLab—a set of transformational learning experiences and resources—to inspire, equip, and support administrative leaders and their teams.

Testimony 1

“​​Leadlab is not any other leadership training. It is about reorientation on how to become Christ-like in values, behavior and lifestyle....The lessons we have learned have changed my leadership perspective forever.” 


—LeadLab Growth Series Participant, East Central Africa Division

Testimony 2

“LeadLab [led] me to rethink my walk with God and my influence over colleagues and members. I got to realize that God really cares and expects more from me.... So Lord, help me!”


—LeadLab Growth Series Participant, West Central Africa Division

Testimony 3

“LeadLab creates a safe environment in which leaders from around our division—from one corner to the other of Europe—come together to confront their ideas with the challenges they face together in a kind of whirlpool of brainstorming to find innovative solutions."


—LeadLab Growth Series Participant, Inter European Division

Testimony 4

"For me, LeadLab arrived about 27 years late. I think every student, pastor, or any other professional needs this training. LeadLab has given me the right position of leadership in my mission, and it has strengthened my calling as a pastor."

—LeadLab Growth Series Participant, South Pacific Division

GLI Team

Dr. Erich Baumgartner

Founding Director of the Global Leadership Institute

Randy Siebold, PhD

GLI Director

Anna Piskozub

Operations Program Coordinator

Jungkil Son

Graduate Assistant

Assistant Project Manager

Fred Siebold

Graduate Assistant

Media Content Specialist

Songhwa Chae

Graduate Assistant

Media Content Specialist

Dr. Alayne Thorpe

AU Center for Leadership

Dr. Juan Prestol-Puesán

GC Liaison

 

“The church on earth is composed of erring men and women, who need patient, painstaking effort that they may be trained and disciplined to work with acceptance in this life, and in the future life to be crowned with glory and immortality. Pastors are needed—faithful shepherds—who will not flatter God’s people, nor treat them harshly, but who will feed them with the bread of life—men who in their lives feel daily the converting power of the Holy Spirit and who cherish a strong, unselfish love toward those for whom they labor.” 

-Acts of the Apostles, p.526