Adaptive Leadership Resources from Tod Bolsinger

Thriving teams need adaptive leaders. In these four practical field guides, Tod Bolsinger (bestselling author of Canoeing the Mountains) offers leaders of churches, teams, and non-profits fresh vision for adaptive leadership in today's world. The four fully illustrated volumes in the Practicing Change Series address real-world concerns like leadership in times of crisis, mission-oriented leadership, charting a steady course through change, how to steward trust to bring about transformation, and more.

Written in short, actionable chapters with busy leaders in mind, Tod's powerful wisdom will set your team—and your organization—on a path towards maximum effectiveness and impact.

  • How Not To Waste A Crisis

    Crisis is inevitable. Explore the opportunity available when a reality is shaken by health, financial, social, and political disasters.

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  • Leading Through Resistance

    Resistance to change is natural. Help your teams wrestle with uncertainty and loss through skills gleaned from real-life cases.

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  • The Mission Always Wins

    Keeping the mission on track requires intention. Get practical advice on clarifying your organization's purpose to give your team an aligned mission.

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  • Invest in Transformation

    Leaders don't have to be perfect but they have to be trustworthy. Learn how to build a high-trust account so you can invest in transformation.

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Meet The Author

Tod Bolsinger, MDiv, PhD, the co-founder and principal of AE Sloan Leadership, Inc, an executive coaching and consulting firm that works with church, non-profit, university, and marketplace leaders in leading change.

He is also the Executive Director of the DePree Center Church Leadership Institute, a Senior Fellow of the De Pree Center for Leadership, Associate Professor of Leadership Formation at Fuller Theological Seminary, was the founder of the Fuller Leadership Platform, and served as a Vice President of Fuller Seminary for six years. Prior to his educational career, he served as a pastor for 27 years

  • "As much as we hate it, crises are inevitable in leadership. Tod Bolsinger brings a refreshingly new perspective on how to lead through crisis, and it's not what you think. But it's exactly what heroic leaders who love to jump in, fix things, and rise to the challenge need to do."

    -Carey Nieuwhof, founder of the Art of Leadership Academy and author of At Your Best

  • "The Practicing Change Series is compelling and immediately applicable. Each book weaves us through story, illustration, and discussion to contextualize paradigm-shifting frameworks for thinking. Your leadership, but more importantly the impact through your leadership, will experience a trajectory change through the words penned."

    -Wendy Nolasco, general supervisor and vice president of US Mission for the Foursquare Church

  • "Tod Bolsinger's four short books in the Practicing Change Series are the 'emergency preparedness drill' that you will be grateful to have read when the next 'tsunami' hits your organization. Read them now before the next wave hits your shore."

    -Richard Stearns, president emeritus of World Vision US and author of Lead Like It Matters to God

  • "This book is essential reading for pastors, coaches, and anyone else who has ever felt the pressure to swoop in and save the day."

    -Julia Fabris McBride, coauthor of When Everyone Leads: How the Toughest Challenges Get Seen and Solved

  • "Tod is a master storyteller, carefully threading points, principles, and processes with ease and nuance. Today's era of leadership calls for continual, on-the-go growth, and this series offers solutions to today's demands. For the leader whose time is limited and responsibilities toward self and service are complex, these books are for you."

    -Wendy Nolasco, general supervisor and vice president of US Mission for the Foursquare Church

  • "The Practicing Change Series is like having Tod Bolsinger as a personal coach. He offers practical and powerful wisdom for anyone who is wrestling with the complex challenges of ministry leadership today."

    - Mike Bonem, consultant, coach, and author of The Art of Leading Change

  • "Tod Bolsinger is a prophetic voice to leaders in both the nonprofit and for-profit environments. We are facing a world that doesn’t trust leadership, but in this book Tod provides us with a leadership masterclass on how to reframe our thinking and learn critical lessons as we respond to present challenges."

    -Major Nesan Kistan, divisional commander with the Salvation Army

  • "This series is required reading for anyone who wants to lead change. In the very best way, reading these books was like sitting down with a mentor who has done the hard work of leading change himself and wants to help us work through the mistakes, challenges, and dynamics we can't see by ourselves."

    - Michaela O'Donnell, executive director of the Max De Pree Center for Leadership and author of Life in Flux

  • "This is one of the best real application leadership books I have read given the constant changing environment we all are leading, managing, and living through."

    - Mack B. Rhoades IV, vice president and director for intercollegiate athletics, Baylor University