Kinast, Robert,

Director of the Center for Theological Reflection, Indian Rocks Beach, Florida, Kinast is a leading authority on theological reflection.

Let Ministry Teach: A Guide to Theological Reflection, Order of St Benedict, Minnesota, 1996
Making Faith-Sense: Theological Reflection in Everyday Life,

Kotter, John P.

Professor of leadership at Harvard Business School. He is widely regarded as one of the best speakers in the world on the topics of leadership and change

Power and Influence: Beyond Formal Authority, Free Press, NY, 1985
Leadership Factor, Free Press, NY, 1988
A Force for Change: How Leadership differs from Management, Free Press, 1990
Leading Change, Harvard Business School Press, 1998
What Leaders Really Do, Harvard Business School Press, 1999
The Heart of Change, Harvard Business School Press, 2002

Kouzes, James M. & Posner, Barry Z.

Kouzes is cofounder and chairman of TPG/Learning Systems, a company in the Tom Peters Group.   Barry Posner is Dean of the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University, located in the heart of Silicon Valley. Jim and Barry developed The Leadership Practices Inventory, a 360' questionnaire assessing leadership behavior - see their web site at www.theleadershipchallenge.com

Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It, Jossey Bass, 1995
Encouraging the Heart: A Leader's Guide to Rewarding and Recognizing Others, Jossey Bass, 1999 (with Barry Z. Posner)
The Leadership Challenge: How to Keep Getting Things Done in a Organizations, Jossey Bass, 1996 (updated version). (with Barry Z. Posner)
The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership : When Leaders Are at Their Best, Jossey Bass, 2000. (with Barry Z. Posner)

Leas, Speed B.

Senior Consultant with The Alban Institute and Visiting Professor of Congregational Leadership, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California. Leas specialises in  conflict management, long-range and short-range planning, organizational analysis, management by objectives/time management, multiple-staff ministries, consulting skill for church executives, leadership development, interpersonal communications clergy assessment, development of volunteer programs, assimilating new members and systems theory. His home page is http://home.att.net/~speedleas/

Understanding Your Congregation As A System , Alban Institute, 1993 (manual and Congregational Systems Inventory, with George D. Parsons)
The Inviting Church: A Study of New Member Assimilation,  Alban Institute, 1987 (with Roy Oswald)
Moving Your Church Through Conflict, Alban Institute, 1986
A Lay Person's Guide to Conflict Management, Alban Institute, 1985
Discover Your Conflict Management Style, Alban Institute, 1983, Revised 1998
Leadership and Conflict, Abingdon, 1982

Lee, Blaine

Blaine is a founding vice president of FranklinCovey and has been a contributing author to books by Stephen R. Covey and Norman Vincent Peale. He has provided leadership programs for major companies around the world. He lives in Salt Lake City.

The Power Principle: Influence with honor, Simon & Schuster, NY, 1998

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