Four women who have just departed from top leadership posts discuss their experiences in a male-dominated world.

This spring, the In Trust Center hosted more than 20 webinars and online conversations to give leaders the opportunity to share concerns and ideas. Here is some of what we heard.

A systematic framework for reopening an institution that includes reviewing, regrouping, redefining, refocusing, and remaining personally resilient.

School leaders need to consider all their options — even the unthinkable ones.

What are the biggest pandemic-related legal risks for seminaries? What legal actions may result from them? How can seminaries mitigate risk?

Videoconferences are good for formal meetings and votes, but not good for wide-ranging discussions of strategic issues that lead to the wisest decisions.

Instead of feeling nostalgic for a gilded past that never was, the president of Acadia Divinity College suggests rewriting our stories, examining and refocusing our missions, and leaning with hope into the future, unknown as it is.

The president of Concordia Lutheran Seminary offers a theological reflection on change, emphasizing that today’s seminarians are ready to take the lead.

Accelerated ministry programs funded by the Kern Family Foundation are training a new generation of pastoral leaders, allowing them to earn both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in five years and enter ministry before they turn 25.