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Publication Date

2022

Abstract

Perhaps you are like me . . . a reluctant leader . . . in a position you didn’t seek, or were reluctant to take on, or in which you just feel worn out. In the spring of 2020, after my father’s death and right as the COVID-19 curtain was falling, I was asked to serve as executive dean of Portland Seminary, an embedded seminary at George Fox University in Portland, Oregon. I had been on faculty for 31 years and served in every kind of role, including interim dean. But at that time, I had my dream job as the lead mentor for cohorts of doctoral students, as well as a book contract and other writing projects. I was very content. My husband, Randy, had retired, and we had plans. I did not seek the executive dean position or want the position. When the position unexpectedly became vacant, I was as unexpectedly asked to take the role.

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