40: Leading Change in the Catholic Church with David McCallum

Father David McCallum is at the heart of a very interesting
change process taking place in the Catholic Church.  Pope
Francis has called for a 2 year process to advance a synodal
church.  David discusses how a synodal church embraces
leadership from the edges, engaging the laity and being less
hierarchical and clerical in its approach.   Simon and David
share thoughts on how this process might happen, and how synodal
leadership symbolises how the Catholic church is responding to
our disruptive age.  Inspired by early church practices of
discernment, accompaniment and spiritual friendship, David is
working with others to develop new ways of organising, leading
and being in this emergent space that is opening.  Enjoy
this podcast! 





Bio 


Father David McCallum, S.J., Ed.D is a Jesuit priest and
leadership educator. He serves as the founding Executive Director
of the Program for Discerning Leadership. The Program provides
leadership formation for senior Vatican officials and major
superiors of religious orders in Rome, Italy, as well as
internationally. 





Born in Buffalo, NY (1968), and raised in Rochester, Fr. McCallum
is a proud Upstate New Yorker.  He serves as a facilitator
for mission driven, personal and organizational development
programs, provides developmentally informed executive coaching,
and delivers leadership development programs and spiritual
retreats internationally. He co-founded the Contemplative Leaders
in Action program (CLA), an initiative of the Office for Ignatian
Spirituality (USA East Coast Province)





Currently, Fr. McCallum lives in Rome and serves as a member of
the Secretariat for the Synod of Bishops Commission on
Methodology, supporting the Synodal process initiative by Pope
Francis.