The Virtue-Based Transformational Leadership Course
The 4-R Model of Leadership Will Help You Navigate the Challenge of Leading Well Wherever You Are
Unleash Your Full Leadership Potential
The 4R Model framework will guide you in growing your leadership capacity and developing the skills necessary to lead well in the 21st century.
Proven Transformational Leadership Insights
You’ll gain a profound understanding of how virtue-based transformational leadership principles can be applied in your real-world leadership context.
Flexible Online Learning
You have the flexibility to learn at your own pace and schedule, allowing you to balance your professional and personal commitments while investing in your personal leadership development.
How the Virtue-Based Transformational Leadership Course Can Help Your Organization:
- To strengthen your resolve in the face of obstacles, and remain hopeful, even in difficult times
- To grow your ability to lead effectively, even in the midst of changing circumstances
- To grow your resilience and bounce back under harsh conditions or after an initial failure
- To grow in your capacity to collaborate with others to get important work accomplished
- To manage the negative emotions that threaten to undermine your leadership effectiveness
Relationships
Series
INSTANT ACCESS
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3 videos introducing the course, including The Role of Virtue
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18 video lessons discussing each of 5 Essential Capacities required of a Virtue-Based Transformational Leader
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Downloadable worksheets as a learning guide
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Quizzes to assess your knowledge of each module
Roles, Responsibilities
and Results Series
INSTANT ACCESS
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12 video lessons discussing the Roles, Responsibilities and Results of a Virtue-Based Leader
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Downloadable worksheets as a learning guide
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Quizzes to assess your knowledge of each module
The Art of Virtue-Based Transformational Leadership
Our Focus
EXECUTIVE COACHING
ONLINE LEADERSHIP COURSES
STRENGTHS-BASED STRATEGY
CONSULTING
Business leaders, non-profit leaders, church leaders and parents will find the book accessible and immediately applicable to their leadership challenges and opportunities. And for those who don’t have a formal leadership role, this book will encourage you to influence your world right where you live.
Purpose matters
You don't need a formal position of leadership to make a difference.
You can have the impact you want without an executive job title, going back to school or having a full bank account. It doesn’t take a lot of money, time or special connections to make a BIG DIFFERENCE. Whether you are a CEO or a high school student, you can have a powerful sense of purpose in your life. You can play a unique role in restoring hope to a leaderless world.
Learning Leadership in a Changing World: Virtue and Effective Leadership in the 21st Century
Learning Leadership in a Changing World provides direction and support in the form of the 4R Model of Leadership—a theoretically sound, conceptually straightforward, and educationally powerful framework.
Tell It Often-Tell It Well: Making the Most of Witnessing Opportunities
Jesus Christ offers His love and forgiveness to a lost and hurting world. This is the most important message your family, friends, and neighbors will ever hear. If the church is to succeed in its evangelistic mission, the good news of the gospel must be boldly, clearly, and sensitively communicated so that as many as possible might listen, and all those who listen may truly understand and experience the transforming power of God’s grace. Followers of the risen, reigning and returning Christ need to tell the good news often, and tell it well.
"While few of us will occupy a position like Nehemiah, with a significant platform and outcomes of historic proportion, all of us are called to make a difference where we are. Anyone with relationships has a platform. It might be your family, your sports team, or your division at work, but we encourage you to consider your platform—the people that may be influenced through your interactions with them. Most of us have no idea how we will impact others. As we move through life, we can be catalysts and set in motion things that will produce chain reactions beyond anything we can imagine. We simply do not know the ripple effect or the number of people who may be touched by our leadership.
Our Team
Mark and Jim met in 2000 through a mutual friend. Since both are extremely interested in leadership and leadership development, they quickly developed a friendship. Mark invited Jim to lecture on Leadership in his Seminary classes and in the process Jim learned Mark’s exceptional 4R Transformational Leadership Model.
Along the way, Mark also introduced Jim to Strengths-Based Coaching. In January 2005, Mark and Jim incorporated JMark Partners LLC, a consulting company that focuses on Executive Coaching, Leadership Development, Strengths-based Coaching, High-Performance Teams, Strategy and Culture Change.
In September, 2005, Mark, Jim and Jim Green teamed up to teach the first course in Bethel University’s MBA program, “Values-Based Leadership.” They taught the course continually through the fall of 2013. Mark and Jim’s strengths complement each other in a way that enables them to deliver high quality products.
Mark McCloskey
Mark is a graduate of Miami University (BA) and Bethel Seminary, Minnesota (MDiv). He earned his PhD at the University of South Florida in the College of Education, Department of Leadership Development. His focus of study was organizational leadership, adult education, and research and measurement.
Jim Louwsma
Jim started his collegiate career at the University of Michigan and graduated from Wheaton College with a BA. After graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War and flew Navy attack jets. After the Navy, he received an MBA from the University of Utah and then worked for Procter & Gamble for almost 30 years. In retirement, he started a consulting company with Dr. McCloskey and co-founded Africaworks in Mozambique, Africa.
Rachel Boudreau
Rachel is an Talent Acquisition professional and a Certified Professional Coach. She obtained her Bachelors in Psychology from Bethel University and her coaching certification from Adler Graduate School.
