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Global Leadership Institute

 

The Global Leadership Institute (GLI) at Andrews University is a professional leadership development initiative that started through support by the General Conference (GC) of Seventh-day Adventists. Administrators, department directors, principles, teachers, and pastors from around the globe have experienced the program and have found a powerful way to grow in leadership, with each other, and with God.

The mission of the GLI is to support the growth and multiplication of leaders across the globe, to help them fulfill their God-given mission. The GLI uses LeadLab—a set of transformational learning experiences and resources—to inspire, equip, and support administrative leaders and their teams.

LeadLab: The Growth Series

Imagine a leadership development program like nothing you have never experienced. Imagine feeling like you belong, but those around you are amazing, accomplished leaders. Imagine a program that does not focus just on great ideas, but it also encourage you to learn and grow in your own way—empowered by the Holy Spirit. The imagination has come to life. We encourage you to visit LeadLab.
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“​​Leadlab is not any other leadership training. It is about reorientation on how to become Christ-like in values, behavior and lifestyle....The lessons we have learned have changed my leadership perspective forever.” 


—LeadLab Growth Series Participant, East Central Africa Division

“LeadLab [led] me to rethink my walk with God and my influence over colleagues and members. I got to realize that God really cares and expects more from me.... So Lord, help me!”


—LeadLab Growth Series Participant, West Central Africa Division

“LeadLab creates a safe environment in which leaders from around our division—from one corner to the other of Europe—come together to confront their ideas with the challenges they face together in a kind of whirlpool of brainstorming to find innovative solutions."


—LeadLab Growth Series Participant, Inter European Division

"For me, LeadLab arrived about 27 years late. I think every student, pastor, or any other professional needs this training. LeadLab has given me the right position of leadership in my mission, and it has strengthened my calling as a pastor."

—LeadLab Growth Series Participant, South Pacific Division

GLI Team

Erich Baumgartner, PhD

GLI Director Emeritus & Co-founder

Randy Siebold, PhD

GLI Executive Director & Co-founder

Anna Piskozub

Operations & Logistics Coordinator

Fred Siebold

Technology & Media Specialist

 

“The church on earth is composed of erring men and women, who need patient, painstaking effort that they may be trained and disciplined to work with acceptance in this life, and in the future life to be crowned with glory and immortality. Pastors are needed—faithful shepherds—who will not flatter God’s people, nor treat them harshly, but who will feed them with the bread of life—men who in their lives feel daily the converting power of the Holy Spirit and who cherish a strong, unselfish love toward those for whom they labor.” 

-Acts of the Apostles, p.526

GLI In The News

LeadLab Local: Program to Train Regional Church Leaders Also Transforms a Local Church (Adventist Review, April 2026)

LeadLab 2.0: A Spiritual Journey Begins in Madrid (TED News, January 2026)

GCSession 2025 - WAD - West-Central Africa Division (ANN News, July 2025)

GCSession 2025 - CHUM - Chinese Union Mission (ANN News, July 2025)

Le pardon, cœur de l’innovation / Façonner le cœur d’un leader - Articles Sélectionnés de Ministry International Juillet 2023 (Ministry France, 1st Quarter 2024)

The case for leadership education among Adventist leaders (Ministry, August 2023)

GLI Guest Editorial of Ministry International July 2023 (Ministry, July 2023)

Transformational Leadership Laboratory Growth Series Equips Administrative Leaders to Fulfill God-given Mission (Adventist.asia/news May 2023)

Q&A with Dr. Erich Baumgartner and Dr. Randy Siebold: Self-Awareness - The Meta-Skill of the 21st Century (Lead Your Life, April 2023)

GLI Shares Innovative LeadLab Program for Adventist Leaders in Southern Asia-Pacific (Aventist.asia/news March 2023)

Leadership Program Inspires and Transforms (Adventist Record, October 2022)

Church Experts Report on Adventist Leadership Training Initiatives (Adventist Review, October 2022)

LeadLab Presentation at GC Annual Council 2022 Session (October 2022)

Adventist Leaders Preview Leadership Program (Adventist News Network, February 2022)

World Church Leaders Back Creation of Leadership Institute (Adventist News Network, February 2020)

For More Information

  1. Check out the LeadLab website for more information (andrews.edu/leadlab)
  2. To schedule schedule a conversation or to donate to life- & organization-changing leadership development: Email us at leadlab@andrews.edu

 

Leadership: Grow & Multiply

"You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also" (2 Timothy 2:2)

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