Leadership Development By Design: Intentional Pathways for Spiritually Formative Leadership

By Dr. Gary H. Woolverton

Healthy churches depend on healthy leaders-men and women who are called by God, formed through discipleship, and equipped to serve with humility, wisdom, and faithfulness. Leadership Development By Design provides a biblically grounded and intentional framework for cultivating leaders who can sustain ministry health and guide the church into the future.
This volume helps pastors and ministry leaders move beyond informal or reactive leadership development by establishing clear pathways for identifying, training, mentoring, and releasing leaders at every level of ministry. Grounded in Scripture and enriched by pastoral experience, the book addresses character formation, spiritual maturity, leadership skills, and accountability as inseparable components of healthy leadership.
Rather than offering quick fixes or leadership trends, Leadership Development By Design emphasizes long-term formation-helping churches build leadership cultures that value faithfulness over visibility, service over position, and growth over control. Practical tools and ministry-tested frameworks equip leaders to develop others intentionally while guarding unity and mission.
Whether developing emerging leaders, strengthening ministry teams, or building sustainable leadership pipelines, this resource equips churches to invest wisely in people and cultivate leaders who serve Christ and His church with integrity-By Design.

Ministry By Design: The Series equips churches with biblically grounded, intentionally structured ministry models for lasting spiritual growth.

Current books in the Series include:
Administration and Organizational Ministry By Design
Assimilation Ministry By Design
Church Growth By Design
Church Ministry By Design (Legacy)
Church Ministry By Design, 2nd Edition
Church Operations By Design
Church Staffing By Design
Getting Started: Introduction to the Ministry By Design Series
Leadership Development By Design
Marriage Ministry By Design (Legacy)
Position Descriptions By Design (Legacy)
Position Descriptions By Design, 2nd Edition
Purposes of the Church By Design
Spiritual Authority By Design
Spiritual Disciplines By Design
Spiritual Gifts By Design

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GGZXCVFY
• ISBN13: 9798901843376
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Hartwood Publishers
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"