Leading Well

“We are living in a time that desperately needs insightful, spiritual, and truthful leadership! In Leading Well, Jeanne shares her decades of professional experience, wealth of knowledge, and biblical insight to empower Black women leaders to live into their authentic identity and reach their full, God-given potential. If you’re a leader who is ready to reimagine leadership with principles and practices that will bring new life and longevity to your work and ministry, this book is for you!”

- Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil, author of Becoming Brave and Roadmap to Reconciliation

“Jeanne offers us a long-awaited and desperately needed spiritual road map for Black women’s leadership. Attentive to the unique challenges and cultivated strengths of such leaders, Jeanne provides an insightful narrative, rich biblical exposition and application, and practical steps. In this book, we are seen, valued, equipped, and exhorted to faithful leadership.”

- Christina H. Edmondson, PhD, Certified Cultural Intelligence facilitator, public speaker, and mental health therapist, co-author of Faithful Anti-Racism

“I always pay close attention to the writings of Jeanne Porter King. It is because I know her to be a critical and progressive thinker who passionately advocates for ‘Justice’ in both secular and sacred societies. Once again, through the narrative of another woman’s story, Jeanne creates a pedagogy designed to teach us how to reclaim, reimagine, and reframe our experience of ‘being and becoming’ Black Christian women who lead. This book invites us to see through new lenses as we step into the Gospel of John chapter 4. We are enlightened by principles and practices by which we can live ‘in’ and live ‘out’ King’s fresh revelations needed in these uncertain times. We are empowered to push through the restricting barriers into the dimension of spirituality which fuels all other dimensions of our existence.

This book is an inspirited model written for our healing, health, and well-being.

I highly recommend this book to everyone whose assignment is to heal the world and establish the kingdom counterculture in the earth. A culture in which Black Christian women have a predestined place and purpose. This book summons us to class . . . at the well.”

- Dr. Carolyn D. Showell, author of Discovering Wisdom in Chaos, president and founder of the Women’s Institute of Learning and Leadership

“As an African American, Christian, woman entrepreneur, Leading Well is the book that I needed when my career and life journey began decades ago. It points with precision to the issues, difficulties, challenges, joys, privileges, and realities of being a Black woman in America. I have heard many sermons and lessons about the Samaritan woman at the well with Jesus. None have illuminated the poignant lessons of this well-known Biblical story so profoundly. You will surely see yourself in the pages of this inspirational and empowering book. Jeanne shares transparently and lavishly from her own experiences in a way that makes her supremely relatable and relevant. While reading Leading Well, Jeanne feels like a girlfriend, mentor, instructor, coach, and sister all at once. Leading Well helps the reader ask important questions of herself that are necessary for self-discovery, growth, and liberation. This book is a deep well of insight, instruction, encouragement, and wisdom. Leading Well is a must-read for Black women and our allies. Leading Well will move readers to a place of greater fulfillment and effectiveness.”

- Dr. Debbye Turner Bell, CEO/founder of Debbye Turner Bell Consulting, author of Courageous Faith, pastor, veterinarian, Miss America 1990

“If you’re leading at a feverish pitch, exhausted, short on patience and peace, and thin on time with Jesus, this is YOUR book. Practical, wise, and spiritually vibrant, Leading Well opens barrier-breaking, soul-centered strategies for women in racist, sexist cultures.”

- Mimi Haddad, PhD, president of CBEInternational.org