Huntley Leadership Podcast
Catholic Leadership Podcast for clergy, entrepreneurs and people of influence looking to be inspired and challenged to be their best!
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Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
Effective church management is essential for creating a culture of mission and purpose within our organizations. By learning how to effectively manage resources, we can better serve our communities and carry out our mission of spreading the Gospel.
In this episode of the Ron Huntley Leadership Podcast, we're joined by Matthew Manion, Faculty Director of the Center for Church Management in the Villanova School of Business and former CEO of the Catholic Leadership Institute.
Matthew shares his expertise on the importance of both leadership and management in building healthy missional church culture. He explains how academic education can help church leaders effectively manage their administration, allowing them to focus on ministry that truly changes lives.
If you're a Catholic church leader looking to build a thriving, missional church culture, don't miss this episode!
Monday Dec 26, 2022
Monday Dec 26, 2022
How do we effectively mobilize our communities around mission, while understanding the realities of the new post-lockdown world we live in? It's no secret that the world has changed since Covid. And when it comes to church leadership, that change can be really hard to navigate.
I had the privilege of speaking with Dan McCarty on this week's podcast. After serving internationally with Alpha Ireland through the pandemic, Dan now serves churches and church leaders locally with Alpha USA. He's passionate about helping parishes and churches from all denominations to reach the lost and fulfill the Great Commission.
Dan shares his journey into communion with the Catholic Church, as well as his hopes for his impact in his new role. This conversation paints a beautiful picture of how churches and parishes can learn from each other and work together to be more effective in building God's Kingdom.
Monday Dec 19, 2022
Monday Dec 19, 2022
In the church, we often judge & evaluate fruitfulness based on external factors–things like the offertory, the October counts, or the number of people coming through the doors each week.
But Jesus himself used a different metric for measuring success: "Did you love the least of these? The forgotten?"
We're not used to judging fruitfulness by how many people we've formed & sent into the community to be living witnesses & disciple-makers. We've moved into an apostolic stage where it's imperative that we learn how to share the gospel through testimony, ask good questions of our neighbours and facilitate groups for authentic conversation to take place.
But what does that look like in practice?
This week's guest, Jason Simon, President of the Evangelical Catholic, is full of hope and passion for the church's future. His experience of being sought after and apprenticed by a zealous disciple maker drives him to help others have the confidence and skills to reach people in the world with the abundant life of Jesus. Under his leadership, the Evangelical Catholic has experienced a consistent expansion in equipping Catholic laity for apostolic impact worldwide. He has seen first-hand the power of lay evangelization fueled by the institution of the Church.
Our conversation is a deep dive into leadership formation and bringing the mission alive in a fresh way in your parish. From forming and training people for this work to supporting them within the community, then finally uniting laypeople in a vision of outreach for the community!
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Parents and youth ministers in the Catholic church want their children to grow up and attend a parish where they can get sustained formation. The problem is that many parishes are not actually equipped with leaders who can do that effectively.
Even with well-trained youth leaders, the capacity is limited in parishes that are not well-led and where the culture isn't healthy at its core. This is how your best people end up burnt out because they aren't being given the support needed to thrive.
As parish leaders, we're often waiting for the "next generation" to come to us, or perhaps they're already here, but they're leaving because we aren't connecting in the way that they need us to. It's vital for us to address these growing concerns, be willing to break away from what no longer works and reimagine the way that we reach the next generation with the love of Jesus!
This week's guest helps parishes create a culture where this type of change can happen.
Joel Stepanek is the VP of Parish Services at Life Teen, an organization that provides a safe and fun place for youth to experience Catholic community, get answers to their questions, and, most importantly, experience Jesus in a profound and personal way.
Our conversation dives into some of our deep-seated cultural norms and offers incredible insight about how we can more effectively engage young people in the Church.
Monday Dec 05, 2022
Monday Dec 05, 2022
Stewarding the physical spaces that God has entrusted to us as the Catholic Church can be daunting! Across the world, there are church leaders realizing that they have more building capacity than they have the staff capacity to maintain; many simply realize that their spaces aren't as effective as they once were.
Conversations around our places of worship are not unique to leaders in 2022 either! Looking at Scripture, we find an incredibly rich history regarding the places God's people gathered to worship.
In this week's episode, I'm joined by Graham Singh, Founder, and CEO of Trinity Centres Foundation–a Canadian charity established to transform historic city centre church properties into impactful community hubs. Our conversation dives into the church's history–as well as the current state of where things are–and provides a hope-filled vision for the future as leaders navigate these challenging topics!
Monday Nov 28, 2022
Monday Nov 28, 2022
Is your Alpha program getting the results you expect? Are people excited about what's happening? Are they experiencing God's presence in an authentic way through Alpha? Is it dynamic? Engaging? Exciting?
Because if not, something has to change!
But how do you bring life to an Alpha program that is getting stale, boring and lifeless? How do you get participants to come back each week and be excited to be there?
This week's guest is Louis Cain, Director of Evangelization at St. John the Evangelist Parish in Saint John, Indiana. After inheriting the parish Alpha program and running it for two years himself, Louis and the leadership team decided to completely overhaul how they ran their program to resemble the Alpha recipe more closely. The results were extraordinary!
If you're ready to bring new life to your own parish's Alpha program, this episode is a must-listen!
Monday Nov 21, 2022
Monday Nov 21, 2022
On the 100th episode of the Ron Huntley Leadership Podcast, I'm joined by Fr. Sammie Maletta & Khalil Hattar for a conversation about generosity as Catholic leaders.
We dive deep into parish renewal, Catholic leadership and what it means to be a parish that blesses & resources others! They share insights gained through their own ministry work, give practical perspective to those who are just starting out, and offer so much value about transforming your mindset & becoming an even greater blessing to the communities around you.
Being a Catholic leader is hard work; being sustainably fruitful is even harder! Becoming competent as a leader takes commitment, humility and drive. And being generous doesn't always come easy. But with the right approach, you can develop a culture of generosity as you increase your own impact, and begin helping others do the same!
Monday Nov 14, 2022
Monday Nov 14, 2022
Mobilizing people for mission is fundamental in church leadership. The fruit of our labours as Catholic leaders should include creating missionary disciples!
But it's one thing to KNOW that you need to mobilize your church for missional impact; it's a whole other thing to actually go about CREATING that kind of culture.
What if creating a missional culture wasn't about fixing everything for everyone all the time, but rather identifying what people are naturally gifted at, and linking the mission with people's natural loves and strengths?
In this episode, I'm joined by Marcel LeJeune, President & Founder of Catholic Missionary Disciples. Marcel is an avid blogger, author, speaker, & Catholic leadership coach, working with his team to equip Catholic leaders for transformational ministry. In our conversation, he provided so much incredible perspective on what it looks like to equip & release your parishioners to share the love of Jesus with the world around them!
If you're a leader who feels your capacity is at its limit, this episode will leave you encouraged & provide invaluable insights that will challenge what you believe is possible!
Monday Nov 07, 2022
Monday Nov 07, 2022
Culture isn't a buzzword, or gimmick; it's not something that you can simply talk about. Culture is the environment and feeling you experience when you walk through the doors of an organization. It's a real thing that's felt, and it needs to be developed intentionally!
Your parish or organization has a culture. Whether that culture was created intentionally or not, it does exist; and people feel it!
What can you do to create a culture where people want to be, where they know they're valued, and that makes them want to continue coming back time-and-time again?
On this episode, I'm joined by Chris Adams, CEO of Ellis Adams Group (EAG), a luxury brand consulting firm working within the hospitality industry! His firm has worked with brands such as the Ritz Carlton, Marriott, and many more. Chris started at the bottom and worked his way up the corporate ladder, and in our conversation, he shared some of his learnings and insight about developing a culture where teams can thrive, and guests are consistently blown away!
Whether you're in business, leading a ministry, or are clergy in the Catholic Church, this episode will give practical insight into equipping your team for impact, and creating an authentic culture that people will want to come back to.
Monday Oct 31, 2022
Monday Oct 31, 2022
How do you gain traction with your organization's vision? How do you get your whole team aligned behind a common goal in a way that creates momentum?
Joe DiPenta helps leaders do exactly that. Joe is a retired NHL Stanley Cup champion who now focuses his passion on helping organizations and teams get traction toward their vision. As a professional EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) Implementer, Joe helps CEOs, parishes, sports teams and other businesses take active steps toward achieving their vision, and see results they previously believed to be unattainable.
Post pro-hockey, Joe joined an organization that had poor staff retention and declining revenue. After implementing the principles of EOS, they began to see things shift & were quickly seeing remarkable results! Since then, Joe has been passionate about helping other companies & leaders experience the same success. He now spends his time speaking & working with organizations to implement these principles into their own businesses.
This episode will challenge your current perspective on what is, or isn't, possible within your organization, and leave you encouraged about your own potential for impact!
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