Doctor of Ministry

Organizational Leadership

Collaborative – not solo – leadership requires particular character, vision, and change. In this deep dive into organizational leadership, you and your cohort peers challenge each other to serve your contexts, both locally and globally, by empowering others with both character and strategy. The fast-changing and multicultural realities of ministry demand an informed adaptability that addresses this present age.

Your cohort will tackle current challenges such as:

  • The intersection of theoretical and practical skills to design and facilitate missional leadership development
  • Contextually relevant ways to evangelize and multiply leaders through visionary leadership
  • Supervision, systems, strategy, society, and maintaining a missional leadership lifestyle
  • The leader’s role as a change agent and the dynamic process of organizational change

As you complete your degree, you will:

  • Enter in a space that invites reflection and conversation
  • Engage in robust academics, research, and writing
  • Experience meaningful, vibrant, spiritually formed relationships
  • Explore relevant and adaptive ministry perspectives and practices
  • Enhance local/global ministry capacities

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Organizational Leadership Cohort Degree Plan

Sample Cohort Syllabi

DM910 Core Course Habits that Sustain Ministry 4 credit hours
DM911 Core Course Discovering God’s Missional Heart 4 credit hours
DM(ORG)915 Seminar I Kenotic Leadership 4 credit hours
DM(ORG)916A Seminar II Coaching in Complex Systems 2 credit hours
DM(ORG)916B Seminar II Coaching in Complex Systems 2 credit hours
DM(PLE)917 Seminar III Community Shaping Leadership 4 credit hours
DM(PLE)918A Seminar IV Leading Change 2 credit hours
DM(PLE)918B Seminar IV Leading Change 2 credit hours

Lead Professors/Guest Speakers

Bryan D. Sims is a pioneer, coach, writer, and professor and is the author of Leading Together: The Holy Possibility of Harmony and Synergy in the Face of Change. He has been a Leadership and Change Coach with Spiritual Leadership, Inc. (SLI) since 2001, assisting ministries to bring spiritual awakening and missional effectiveness. He also serves in leadership with the Movement Leaders Collective.

Aaron Perry, PhD, loves helping others to thrive and serve effectively as leaders by teaching theology, leadership theory, and practical leadership tools. He is passionate about helping a generation of leaders to develop a rich theology from contemporary and historical resources so that they can withstand a generation of unique theological, practical, and missional challenges. He has authored, co-authored, and edited books on leadership, preaching, pastoral counseling, lay leadership, and C.S. Lewis.

Dr. Thomas Tumblin served seventeen years in parish ministry before joining the Asbury Theological Seminary faculty in 1999. He has pastored churches as small as 30 and as large as 3000 in attendance. Tom embodies a love for Christ’s Church and a calling to equip leaders for stewarding continuous change.