Name: Catholic Leadership Institute
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Subject Matters

January 30, 2023

While most of our team works remotely, we do have an office at Catholic Leadership Institute, and on any given day, there are usually four to six people sharing space together. Since virtual meetings are a big part of our day, one...

Setting Adjustment

Discerning Insights About Leadership

January 27, 2023

I am blessed with a great parish that consistently has music at Mass that is well done and really helps one offer praise to the Lord. Ever since we joined the parish several years ago, I have loved the tune or, more properly, the ...

Follow the Leader

Discerning Insights About Leadership

January 20, 2023

Several years ago, a friend of mine began working on her dissertation on the topic of “followership.” At the time (and still to this day), I enjoy teasing her about her choice of topic and, more so, the amount of time she gives th...

A Word

Discerning Insights About Leadership

January 13, 2023

Last New Year’s Day, my wife was inspired by the women’s ministry Walking with Purpose to have everyone in our family randomly, but prayerfully, choose a word from a rapidly scrolling digital list. Each word corresponded to a scri...

Yes In No

Discerning Insights About Leadership

January 06, 2023

I just so happened to be in Rome the week before Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI shocked the world with his historic resignation. I hadn’t even processed the jet lag as I attempted to process the news – what had happened, what it meant...

What Child Is This?

Discerning Insights About Leadership

January 02, 2023

My best friend from college is one of those people who I can go months without speaking to and pick up with as if we chatted daily. We are both type-A personalities. We see the world the same way. We banter the same way. It’s l...

Gift Exchange

Discerning Insights About Leadership

December 26, 2022

Ever since Mrs. G’s 4th grade White Elephant party, I have had a strong aversion to all “fun” gift exchange practices and, perhaps, I’ll admit it, to Christmas gift giving in general. You see, at that time, troll dolls were all...

Nickle and Dimed

Discerning Insights About Leadership

December 19, 2022

I was recently facilitating a conversation with Church leaders around the future. As usual, there was that normal tension between wanting to go somewhere different and a fear of leaving the past and present behind. When I’ve be...

What or Who?

Discerning Insights About Leadership

December 12, 2022

Historical Significance

Discerning Insights About Leadership

December 05, 2022

I love my city, just not its airport. Lasting pandemic ripple effects now have all the travelers with expedited security going through only one terminal, seriously decreasing the expeditiousness. As I waited in the line I wasn’...

Pick Up Sticks

Discerning Insights About Leadership

November 28, 2022

It is as predictable as a chemical reaction that, when the weather gets colder and the children are inside longer, I tend to yell more. This past Saturday morning, as the temperature dropped, I could feel my blood pressure rise...

Side Dish

Discerning Insights About Leadership

November 21, 2022

My wife and I were married shortly before Thanksgiving 17 blissful years ago. I remember wanting nothing more than to elevate my standing among the in-laws that first holiday by contributing an amazing side dish that would blow...

Emboldening Our Clergy

CLI serves Church leaders, helping them rediscover their potential and forming them to be more intentional with those they serve.

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Igniting Our Parishes

CLI helps empower and energize Catholic leaders by providing focus and courage to engage the culture with an apostolic mindset.

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Forging Our Future

CLI provides vision and hope about the future of the Church with a humble, yet strategic approach.

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