Faithful Work and Loving Labor: An Exploration of Christian Leadership and Ethics for Christian Business Leaders
A Two-Day Executive Education Course
Renew your purpose and vocation. Enhance your ethical leadership skills.
This immersive two-day Executive Education course is designed to equip leaders with a better understanding of how to integrate their Christian worldview into their leadership functions, most notably their ethical decision making. Through engaging classroom discussions, case studies, role plays and hands-on activities, leaders will better understand how their Christian faith should shape their ethical approach to leadership in business as well as influence the employees, teams and organizations they serve.
Whether you're new to a leadership role or ethical decision making, seeking to refine or deepen your leadership skills, or a business leader aiming to integrate your Christian faith into your work, this course will provide insights and tools to enhance your effectiveness as a leader.
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, leaders will be able to:
- Establish and express their personal ethical foundation
- Consider practical approaches to living out their Christian faith in leadership
- Design a practical framework for integrating ethical business leadership with their faith and life beyond the office
- Articulate their own vocation to redemptive business as an expression of their Christian faith
Topics Covered
This course will explore a host of topics that under-gird a Christian approach to leadership and ethical decision making, including:
- Business in Salvation History – The goal of business from a scriptural perspective
- Biblical models of leadership – Practical approaches to leadership based solely on scripture
- Ethical frameworks – Discovering the foundations of personal ethical beliefs
- Becoming a Leader of Character – Building a business based on character
- Ethics-based leadership approaches – Identifying personal tendencies and avoiding common pitfalls for aspiring ethical leaders
- Business as part (but not the whole) of the integrated life – Designing and sticking to a rule of life
- Discipleship in leadership – Building relationships at work rooted in trust
- Why business matters today? – Vocation of business and the business leader as redemptive in today’s workplace
Who Should Attend
This course is ideal for:
- Experienced professionals who are new or transitioning into leadership roles who want to root their approach to leadership and ethics in their Christian faith
- Business owners looking to establish organizational frameworks for leadership and ethics that will accentuate their Christian values
- Senior leaders and executives seeking to lead more strategically in a way that aligns with their personal beliefs
- Christian employees who want to have a better understanding of how to integrate their faith into their career
Dates, Format and Delivery
- Duration: 2 days
- Dates: Oct. 17-18, 2025
- Delivery: In-person in Dallas
- Includes: Course materials, activities, templates and reflection guides
Explore Why Your Work and Who You are Matters as a Christian Leader
Renew your commitment to Christ-centered ethical leadership. This course will provide theological and ethical insights to address real world business opportunities and challenges.
Your Instructors:
Matt Quade, PhD
Matt Quade, PhD, is the Kimberly and Aaron P. Graft Professor in Christian Leadership in Business and the director of Christian Leadership and Ethics at the Hankamer School of Business. He earned his PhD in Business Management from Oklahoma State University. Quade is passionate about equipping leaders to fulfill their calling and to prepare students for Christian leadership in business. In his role leading Christian leadership and ethics initiatives at HSB, he organizes and runs programs designed to encourage and equip students and practitioners for the leadership roles they aspire to or currently hold. Quade’s research interests center on behavioral ethics in the workplace, including topics such as ethical leadership, bottom-line mentality and unethical behavior. His research has been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, and Journal of Business Ethics among other outlets.
Elisabeth Kincaid, PhD
Elisabeth Rain Kincaid, PhD, is a theologian and attorney with experience in private equity and campus ministry who is passionate about exploring how Christian faith illuminates our understanding of vocation, business and business ethics. As associate professor of Ethics, Faith, and Culture at Baylor University's George W. Truett Theological Seminary, affiliate professor of Management, and director of the Institute of Faith and Learning, Kincaid teaches and writes at the intersection of theology, law and business. She previously held the Legendre-Soulé Chair of Business Ethics and served as the director of the Center for Ethics and Economic Justice at Loyola University New Orleans. Kincaid has published broadly in both academic and popular publications, including Christianity Today, The Living Church and America Magazine. She is currently working on a book exploring the relationship between business ethics, theology and human flourishing (under contract with Georgetown University Press). Kincaid is a frequent invited speaker at academic campuses, churches and retreats.
