Carey Nieuwhof
Carey Nieuwhof is a best-selling leadership author, speaker, podcaster, former attorney, and church planter. He hosts one of today’s most influential leadership podcasts, and his online content is accessed by leaders over 1.5 million times a month. He speaks to leaders around the world about leadership, change, and personal growth. His best-selling book, At Your Best: How to Get Time, Energy, and Priorities Working in Your Favor, is designed to help every leader escape stress and begin living at a sustainable pace and has been profiled by Forbes, Fast Company, Entre Leadership, and Business Insider.
Spiritual Disciplines
Monday June 2, 2014 | Carey Nieuwhofby Carey Nieuwhof Discipline is a word most of us don’t like. It’s doing all those things we don’t want to do so that one day we can do the things we do want to do. That’s why you join a gym—because you want to be in good shape 20 years down the road. It’s […] Read more
More Drama, Please
Thursday May 15, 2014 | Carey Nieuwhofby Carey Nieuwhof If you’re like me, you’re probably attracted to drama. We pay money to see it in movies and on TV, and we’re especially drawn to it in other people’s lives. Drama fuels every good plot line. Without drama, there’s no story. “Man eats lunch, cuts lawn, and has zero conflict in his […] Read more
Change Takes Time
Thursday February 6, 2014 | Carey NieuwhofWe are part of a culture that is fast paced and expects immediate results. We want answers and results now. It’s why, every year at about this time, the New Year’s resolutions that we swore we’d keep have become “things we will work on next year.” We have the best of intentions of working out […] Read more
12 Cultural Trends Church Leaders Can’t Ignore (But Might)
Thursday October 31, 2013 | Carey NieuwhofWhen you lead an organization — especially when you are responsible for leading an organization like the local church — there is a temptation to ignore trends or minimize the impact they will have on how you operate. It’s so difficult to gain and keep momentum, that when you have some momentum it becomes tempting […] Read more
The Tension Between Leading and Managing
Monday January 24, 2011 | Carey NieuwhofI’m a leader by nature. I love to try to create something out of nothing, take the 30,000 foot view and dream about the future. I’m also very fortunate to have some very gifted and talented people around me. One of the people on our leadership team is an exceptional manager (and a leader in […] Read more
A Season of Hope for Leaders
Friday December 24, 2010 | Carey NieuwhofAmong all the things a leader deals with, great leaders manage the tension between hope and reality. Hope always focuses on what’s possible. Reality tends to look at what’s actual (which often isn’t all that pretty). The two can almost seem like enemies, but neither is far from the top of a strong leader’s mind. […] Read more
Rest to Refuel
Friday July 16, 2010 | Carey NieuwhofOver the last number of years I’ve had to work a rhythm of rest and refuelling into my life. It’s meant huge changes. In fact, we’ve programmed Connexus so that staff and volunteers are home most nights. I actually take my vacation now. I have work from my home Mondays and Fridays because I write […] Read more
Real Leaders Rest
Thursday July 15, 2010 | Carey NieuwhofI was terrible at this for years. Rest was for people who just couldn’t handle a real workload. If you went home at 4 p.m., it was because you really weren’t committed to the cause. There was a strange justification that happened in the back of my mind that told me the harder I worked, […] Read more
When Church People Behave Like People
Monday February 1, 2010 | Carey NieuwhofYou and I lead imperfect organizations. And sometimes that disappoints us. As much as we think we’ll be part of the perfect church (or start the perfect church), eventually people’s flaws surface (including our own). Bottom line: Church people will always behave like people. If we think of the early church as idyllic, please read […] Read more
Do we stop to ask what happened next?
Thursday January 7, 2010 | Carey NieuwhofIn student and children's ministry, we say that what happens at home is more important than what happens at church. But do we evaluate our effectiveness through that lens? Read more
