Call and Response: 10 Leadership Lessons from the Black Church
Language: English
Published by Amistad Pr, 2026
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- Title
- Call and Response: 10 Leadership Lessons from the Black Church
- Author
- Smith, L. Michelle
- Publisher
- Amistad Pr
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- Brand New
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0063425939
- ISBN 13
- 9780063425934
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In collaboration with JVL Mediaa captivating exploration of why many high-performing Black business leaders attribute their transformational leadership qualities to their experiences growing up in the Black Church and how we can foster these skills in younger generations despite waning church attendance.
The Black church in the U.S. has long been a ';one-stop shop' for developing Black leaders, teaching them many of the qualities required to lead effectively in today's ultra-competitive, digital, and swiftly transforming corporate world. Many high-performing Black leaders benefited from their experiences growing up in this cultural institution steeped in rich history.
Merging cultural study with applied neuroscience and tenets of positive psychology, L. Michelle Smith dissect how these qualities are demonstrated by leaders across industries, from resiliency to their sense of undeniable purpose, their ability to build community and collaborative environments, the delivery and language of their speaking style to their unique leadership flair. She reveals how this historic institution has served as a timeless wellspring of leadership development, empowerment, and cultural preservation and ultimately, is Black leaders' ';secret sauce.'
Call and Response also explores whether the Black Church will be able to continue to ingrain these skills in future generations. Smith examines how cultural shifts have resulted in a decline in church attendance, how online attendance has risen since the Covid pandemic, and finally, how Black leaders mayor may notbe passing these traditions down to their children.
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About the Author
L. Michelle Smith is an award-winning author, Fortune 100 C-Suite advisor, certified global executive and personal coach, and the CEO/founder of no silos communications llc, a media, coaching, and consulting company that develops high-performing executive leaders, with a specialty in women and women of color. She is a contributor to HuffPost VOICES, and the executive producer and host of The Culture Soup Podcast(R) and the Substack podcast Her Next Power Move. She and her work have appeared in Fast Company, Forbes, Black Enterprise, Blavity, The Griot and on local and national television, and she has been a guest speaker at SXSW, Essence Festival, Black Enterprise Women of Power, The Opera Conference, the NABJ Annual Convention, and for companies like AT&T, Amazon, the Dallas Mavericks, Audible, Capital One, Galderma, Altria, and other Fortune 1000 companies and the arts. She sits on the Board of Visitors at Texas Christian University's Bob Schieffer College of Strategic Communication where she has served as an adjunct professor of strategic communication. Call & Response is her fourth book.
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