Master’s of Christian Leadership Degree

Program Objective
The Master’s of Christian Leadership program is designed to help each student develop the confidence, competence, character, and communication skills necessary to be an effective leader for the 21st century. In this track, the student will read, study, and learn from some of the most cutting-edge leaders and authors of our generation including:

Dr. John Maxwell – Rated #1 Leadership Strategist in the World
Tim Story – Celebrity Coach and Best Selling Author
John Bevere – Internationally Known Speaker and Author
Pat Williams – Basketball Hall-of-Famer and Co-Founder of NBA’s Orlando Magic
Dr. Sam Chand – Internationally Known Leadership Expert
The Late Dr. Myles Monroe – Christian Leadership Expert and Government Consultant
Dr. John P. Kelly – President of International Coalition of Apostolic Leaders
Dr. Dave Williams – America’s Pace Setting Life Coach
Dr. Vivian Rodgers – Known as Mr. Excellence
Bobb Beihl – Consultant to the top Christian Leaders in the Evangelical Movement
Flip Flippen – Marketplace Leadership Expert
Dr. Robb Thompson – Relationship Expert
Mark Pfeifer – International Ambassador of the International Coalition of Apostolic Leaders
Dr. Keith Johnson – Success Strategist and Known as America’s #1 Confidence Coach
And many more!

Classes

The Confidence Solution

Instructor: Dr. Keith Johnson

Description: See your inner strengths and talents, and become a confident and more successful person with The Confidence Solution Class. You will learn the keys to unlock transformation in your life, expand your business, career, and relationships, shed unwanted weight and keep the pounds off for good, triumph over your greatest fears, skyrocket your income, and increase your confidence.
Everyone Communicates, Few Connect

Instructor: Dr. John C. Maxwell

Description: Only one thing stands between you and success—your ability to connect. In this extraordinary course, Dr. Maxwell, the world’s most respected leadership expert, shares with you five principles and five practices for breaking the invisible barrier to leadership and personal success, including: • Finding Common Ground • Keeping Your Communications Simple • Capturing People’s Interest • Inspiring People • Staying Authentic in All Your Relationships
The Art of Pacesetting Leadership

Instructor: Dr. Dave Williams

Description: Dr. Dave Williams, America’s Pacesetting Life Coach is recognized as one of America’s foremost authorities on leadership. In this course, you will learn the proven principles of leadership that will launch your life, ministry, business, or job to higher levels of success. Join him on a journey of discovery as he shares the secrets of developing the heart of an authentic leader. This is the course credited with catapulting Mount Hope Church from 226 to over 4,000! Using this course, a church in Grand Blanc, Michigan went from 8 to over 1,000.
Ladder Builder

Instructor: Dr. Samuel R. Chand

Description: Those around you, not you, the visionary, will determine your success. Who’s Holding Your Ladder reminds us that the height of any visionary leader and the fulfillment of the vision are contingent on who’s holding your ladder. It used to be fun climbing this ladder, but the joy and excitement are gone. Dr. Chand discusses 15 challenges that are common to leaders and teaches you how to overcome them.
Stone and Mortar

Instructor: Dr. John P. Kelly

Description: Pastors call this institute one of the most effective tools ever created for building a healthy church. The training is filled with practical application and things you can begin to implement immediately to see change. Designed for church leaders who are trying to break barriers, this stone and mortar teaching will help you achieve numerical growth, increase your effectiveness, and broaden your influence. You will learn how to go from shepherd to leader, from pond to lake—discovering the secret weapon for dynamic church growth. You will learn that proper administration sets the right foundation and how preaching with purpose builds your church. Also taught is the Mission Mirror and the dispensation of times and seasons, and how to become a developer and build a giving church. And finally, you will discover the benefits of building an Apostolic church and network, information vital to building your church and the Kingdom of God.
The Flip Side: Break Free of the Behaviors Holding You Back

Instructor: Flip Flippen & Dr. Micheal Spencer

Description: Flip Flippen is the most influential man you’ve never heard of. This personable Texan is the founder of The Flippen Group, one of the fastest-growing corporate and personal training companies in America, and his philosophy has touched the lives of some of the most powerful individuals in the country—from Wall Street leaders to top sports figures like Terry Bradshaw and his NASCAR team, and from Joel Osteen’s team at Lakewood Church to the 150,000 people who trained with Flip’s company. Great advice for everyone, but particularly appealing to those taking stock of what they want to do with the rest of their lives, Flippen’s approach is surprisingly simple. When we learn how to identify our “personal constraints” and take the necessary steps to correct self-limiting behaviors, we will experience a dramatic surge in productivity, achieve things we have only dreamed of, and find greater happiness overall. Flippen has created a simple process to help
10 Critical Laws of Your Relationships: Your Relationships Define Your Future

Instructor: Dr. Robb Thompson

Description: Those closest to you will determine the outcome of your life. The single most important factor defining your future is the relationships you embrace. The 10 Critical Laws of Relationship enables you to maximize every relationship in your life. You will recognize the special people and the divine links to your future that God has strategically assigned to your life to advance you to a higher level of personal effectiveness. Learn these laws. Practice them, and you will unlock the door to your purpose, your assignment, and your future.
Change Agents - How You Can Change Your World

Instructor: Mark Pfeifer

Description: Understanding our God-given purpose in life is one of the most satisfying and fulfilling discoveries a person could make. In this course, you will come to understand how your assignment in the workplace can bring this enlightenment. Learn how to harness your ambitions and desires and direct them toward personal fulfillment by embracing your God-given call to be a change agent in your world.
Excellence - Driven for Success

Instructor: Dr. Vivian Rodgers

Description: This course will drive you toward reaching far beyond an ordinary lifestyle of mediocrity. You will learn why excellence is so important to God and how you can position yourself for success through Bible-based principles.
The LQ Solution – Influence, Impact, and Increase

Instructor: Dr. Keith Johnson

Description: LQ measures your ability to positively impact others to achieve your destiny, purpose, and mission. The LQ Solution class will help you destroy mindsets that hinder you from living a life of success, significance, and Kingdom impact. While your IQ and EQ (Intelligence and Emotional Quotients) contribute to your maximum potential, your LQ determines how much of that God-given potential you actually put to use in your day-to-day activities. Your LQ—Leadership Quotient—is the significant and primary predictor of the size of your influence, impact, and income.
Becoming a Person of Influence

Instructor: Dr. John C. Maxwell

Description: Creating positive influence is not only a catalyst to your own success, it will become the legacy you will leave behind. In this course, John Maxwell leads you through the principles of influence. He teaches the importance of influence and its direct impact on your leadership ability. You will be introduced to ways to increase your influence within your organization and beyond.
The Art of Distinction

Instructor: Dr. Vivian Rogers

Description: Ten questions are presented to help you separate yourself from the crowd. This class provides a glimpse into what your own distinctive difference can be and helps you to understand that God is committed to your unique development and success.
Leading in Crisis Times

Instructor: Dr. Keith Johnson

Description: This course explores, explains, and demonstrates how God prepares every leader for greatness during crisis times in the stockades of struggle. Discussed is the process all great leaders must go through on their journey to becoming the great persons they were destined to be. This course also provides practical principles how to successfully lead yourself and others out of crisis times.
Put Your Dreams to the Test

Instructor: Dr. John C. Maxwell

Description: What’s the difference between a dreamer and someone who achieves a dream? According to best-selling author Dr. John Maxwell, the answer lies in answering ten powerful, yet straightforward questions. Whether you’ve lost sight of an old dream or you are searching for a new one within you, Put Your Dreams to the Test provides a step-by-step action plan that you can start using today to see, own, and reach your dream. Dr. Maxwell draws on his forty years of mentoring experience to expertly guide you through the ten questions and answers required of every successful dreamer.
Women in Ministry

Instructor: Dr. Keith Johnson

Description: Do you ever hold back from doing what God has called you to do because you are a woman? Has God called you to preach and teach His Word? Do you have questions about the issue of God using women in ministry? Do you need help getting your ministry off the ground? If you answered YES to any of these questions, this course is for you! You will learn the following truths: 14 Bible proofs for women in ministry; why Satan tries so hard to destroy women in ministry; 18 wisdom secrets for women in ministry; and how to have a ministry of excellence.
The Art of Turning Dreams into Reality

Instructor: Dr. Keith Johnson

Description: The Art of Turning Dreams into Reality teaches you to evolve from a leader of history to a leader of destiny, maximize your leadership effectiveness, increase your leadership confidence, unite your team/staff behind your vision, and attract quality people to you.
How to Be a REAL Success

Instructor: Dr. John C. Maxwell

Description: Success is not a destination. Success is a process—a lifelong strategy of building on strengths, minimizing weaknesses, and focusing on the people and points of life that are most important. In How to be a REAL Success, Dr. Maxwell helps you understand the keys you need to succeed in life. Whether you are a civil servant or a corporate executive, you will achieve great things by understanding four very important success-building areas: Relationships, Equipping, Attitude, and Leadership.
Leading with Confidence

Instructor: Bobb Biehl and Dr. Keith Johnson

Description: The number one asset of a leader is confidence. The number one liability of a leader is insecurity. When a leader lacks confidence, the followers will lack commitment. Confidence will take you to the top. In this course, you will learn how to maintain the mental toughness needed as a leader to overcome the negative internal and external forces and voices of fear, uncertainty, and doubt so you can lead like a lion.
The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth

Instructor: Dr. John C. Maxwell

Description: The deepest desire within you is simply to reach your true potential—to become the person you were created to be. Now you can act on that desire as never before and jump-start your journey forward—with The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth, the newest training course taught by John C. Maxwell.This video-and-workbook series draws on a wealth of wisdom from John’s forty-year focus on personal growth. Embracing these fifteen laws will fill your vision with a clear picture of your true passions and purpose—the true foundation for lasting personal growth. You’ll become more convinced than ever of the priceless value of intentional growth—and more motivated than ever to keep growing and never stop. You’ll quickly grasp how these invaluable laws can lead to success in every aspect of your life. You’ll see a clear path forward for growing in character, advancing in career goals, enriching relationships, and enhancing life-management skills.

MASTER'S OF EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP COACHING

Program Objective
The Master’s of Executive Christian Leadership Coaching program is designed to help each student develop the confidence, competence, character, and communication skills necessary to be an effective coach and consultant to other world-class leaders. In this track, the student will read, study, learn coaching and consulting skills, and discover how to build a successful coaching business from America’s #1 Confidence Coach, Dr. Keith Johnson.

Degree Requirements
Life Coaching Certification Academy
• Level 1 – Life Coaching
• Level 2 – Executive Leadership Coaching & Consulting
• Level 3 – Business Coaching & Consulting

Required Master’s of Leadership Courses (15 credits)
• LQ Solution (3 credits)
• The Confidence Solution (3 credits)
• Ladder Builder (3 credits)
• Everyone Communicates, Few Connect (3 credits)
• Leaders of Destiny (3 credits)

Elective Classes (15 credits)
• Student may pick 5 classes from the Master’s of Christian Leadership courses.

Thesis Work
• 100 hours of logged coaching experience.

Total Credit Hours: 30

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Master’s of Christian Leadership Degree

Classes

The Confidence Solution

Everyone Communicates, Few Connect

The Art of Pacesetting Leadership

Ladder Builder

Stone and Mortar

The Flip Side: Break Free of the Behaviors Holding You Back

10 Critical Laws of Your Relationships: Your Relationships Define Your Future

Change Agents - How You Can Change Your World

Excellence - Driven for Success

The LQ Solution – Influence, Impact, and Increase

Becoming a Person of Influence

The Art of Distinction

Leading in Crisis Times

Put Your Dreams to the Test

Women in Ministry

The Art of Turning Dreams into Reality

How to Be a REAL Success

Leading with Confidence

The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth

MASTER'S OF EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP COACHING

Masters of Christian Executive Coaching Degree Investment – $7,500