During the past few years, LCWR has been seeking to support its membership (canonical leaders) by exploring ways to make it easier for executive leaders to be in relationship with one another and in conversation about the many issues that affect all religious institutes. We have spoken with and about executive leaders at Discerning the Emerging Future Hubs, LCWR national assemblies, and most recently, as the LCWR Collaborative Administration Initiative (CAI) was created.
Some congregations have had lay executive leaders serving in key administrative leadership roles for quite some time, other congregations are new to this option. How are elected and executive leaders thinking about the future together, building trust, handling conflict, and serving the mission? What are we learning?
New resources from these ongoing conversations will remain accessible here below.
LCWR defines executive leaders as those lay leaders working within a congregation who are accountable directly to the congregational leader and/or the leadership team as a whole to address high-level administrative objectives. Some examples are chief administrative officers, chief operational officers, chief financial officers, directors of human resources, etc., rather than those managing buildings or healthcare centers and/or consultants.
