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Justice and Forgiveness (LDRS 612)

Term: 2020-2021 - SUMMER SESSION A

Faculty

Suzana Veiss

Suzana Dobrić Veiss, PhD

Email: suzana.veiss@uj.edu

Phone: 559-287-2352 (cell phone: text and call)

Office Hours: Available per appointment. 

About Me: Dr. Suzana Dobrić Veiss is a consultant providing services in the areas of organizational leadership, change, communication, and leadership development. She also teaches and serves as a Program Director and Assistant Professor of Strategic and Organizational Leadership in the School of Business at Fresno Pacific University and serves as an adjunct at University of Jamestown. Dr. Veiss holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership from Regent University and was awarded Outstanding Graduate in the School of Business and Leadership. Dr. Veiss has served on the FPU board of trustees’ executive leadership team and on numerous non-profit organizations. Dr. Veiss presents workshops, consults, writes book chapters and articles, and speaks at conferences nationally and internationally. Her latest presentations at the International Leadership Association’s Annual Global Conference were titled: Finding your Feet: 10 Readiness Exercises in Overwhelming Change and Sensegiving During Change: A Guided Process. She lives in California with her husband Victor and three daughters. They love to travel to Europe to visit family in her homeland Croatia. Her joy is to see emerging leaders equipped with the tools necessary to accomplish the work God prepared in advance for them to do. 

Description

This course is a continuation of the exploration of exercising leadership building on the previous courses in the MAL program. We will take a deep dive look at how personal forgiveness, asking for forgiveness from others, forgiving ourselves, and forgiving others leads to our practice of authentic leadership. It requires a maturity that includes but transcends basic emotional intelligence, that is the continued development of self- awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship building that has been a part of your earlier course work. We will deepen our consideration of the practice of servant-leadership as it pertains to justice, both personal aspects of justice and social or corporate justice. This course, then, is a continuation of the exploration of transformational and servant leadership. We will explore the perennial topics of justice and forgiveness from the perspectives of the individual, the group, workplace, and community, as well as local and global systems.