Rendle, Gilbert R.

As a Senior Consultant with The Alban Institute, Rendle consults with congregations using his background in organizational development and systems theory. His areas of expertise include: understanding and managing change, coping with congregational conflict, congregational structure and the accomplishment of ministry, building effective staff teams, and the relationship of ministry to a changing culture.

Leading Change in the Congregation: Spiritual and Organisation Tools for Leaders, Alban Institute, 1998
Behavioral Covenants in Congregations, Alban Institute, 1999

Richardson, Ronald W.

Richardson is a retired pastoral counsellor and marriage and family therapist. He served for ten years as a pastor in the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. He was the former Executive Director of the North Shore Counselling Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of several books on the practical applications of Bowen Family Systems Theory.  www.leadershipinministry.com

Creating a Healthier Church: Family Systems Theory, Leadership and Congregational Life, Augsburg Press, Minneapolis, 1996

Rost, Joseph C

Executive Director and founding Senior Associate of Institute for the Advancement of Leadership, San Diego. Background in University of San Diego. Specialises in a "Post industrial" concept of leadership

Leadership for the 21st Century, Praeger, London, 1991

Roxburgh, Alan

Alan has pastored congregations in small towns, urban centres and in the suburbs as well as serving in denominational leadership and as a seminary educator. Living in Vancouver, he travels extensively lecturing and leading workshops in leadership, transitions, systems change and missional theology. Alan is a core member of the Gospel and Our Culture Network and was a member of the team that authored Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America. He is President of The Institute for Missional Leadership and a consultant with Church Innovations.

Crossing the Bridge: Church Leadership in a time of change, Percept, 2000
Reaching a New Generation, Regent College, 1993
The Missionary Congregation, Leadership and Liminality, Trinity Print, 1997

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