Cedarville Magazine, Summer 2014

2 | Cedarville Magazine I began studying leadership as a teenager. Although I didn’t know exactly what God wanted me to do withmy life, I always knew that I wanted to lead. My dad subscribed to John Maxwell’s leadership lessons, and I would listen to these as I drove down the road, in addition to reading any number of books that my father or I purchased on the subject. I still can’t get Maxwell’s simplistic definition of leadership out of my head — “Leadership is influence.” Now, I am privileged to serve at one of the premier Christian universities in the nation. Cedarville University glorifies God by equipping students through academic excellence with a Gospel purpose. More simply put, we train leaders. More precisely, we train leaders from a biblical worldview. A Tradition of Biblical Leadership by Thomas White