Leadership Forum 2025
Thursday, March 27
10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Leadership Forum is a professional/spiritual development seminar for clergy and laity that kicks off our Annual Gathering each year. This year, the Leadership Forum features Victoria White, managing director of Grants and Awards at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity School. She facilitates capacity building within traditionally marginalized and under-resourced institutions serving pastors and congregations. Victoria regularly speaks, writes, consults and coaches on topics such as wicked problems, design thinking, strategy and sustainability, Christian social entrepreneurship, traditioned innovation, faith-rooted leadership, and holy friendship. She is an ordained pastor within the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and is the author of “Holy Friendships: Nurturing Relationships that Sustain Pastors and Leaders.”