23 Oct 2024
23 Oct 2024

ATS Research Webinar on Chief Financial Officers

  • Price: FREE

Overview

By registration; Designed for those in financial officer leadership positions and CEOs, CAOs, and COOs at ATS schools, this webinar will share findings from the ATS Leadership Study on Financial Leaders in Theological Education, including the status of the role, the changing nature of the work, and key challenges and stressors for CFOs. Participants’ perspectives about how ATS can help and ATS future programming to support financial officers will also be shared.

 


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Presenters
Deborah H. C. Gin

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Deborah H. C. Gin

Deborah H. C. Gin joined the ATS staff in August 2014 as director of research and faculty development. In addition to launching the Association’s new research initiative and directing programs for faculty, she contributes to the ongoing dialogue about educational models that will have future viability and sustainability. Gin came to ATS from Azusa Pacific University, where she served as a senior faculty fellow in the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment and as associate professor of ministry at Azusa Pacific Seminary. She previously served as director of assessment analysis and education and as director of diversity studies at Azusa.

Gin's areas of research include pedagogy, higher education administration, multicultural education engagement, and diversity inclusivity. Prior to coming to ATS, she received a research grant to pursue Asian American faculty perspectives on the pursuit of administration in higher education and presented at an international conference on multicultural education in Seoul, Korea. Her articles have appeared in To Improve the Academy, Theological Education, and Multicultural Education Review. Chapters she has published include “Ruth: Identity and Leadership from Multivocal Spaces,” in Mirrored Reflections: Reframing Biblical Characters; “Loving My Neighbor,” in Strength to Be Holy; and “Asian American Ethnic/Racial Identity Development,” in Asian American Christianity: A Reader.

Gin is a regular blogger on leadership issues related to Asian American women, has been a frequent invited speaker on topics related to race, excellence, and inclusion, and is a member of the Association of American Colleges & Universities’ VALUE initiative Intercultural Competence rubric development team. She earned an MDiv from Haggard Graduate School of Theology, a master’s of music degree in vocal performance from the University of Southern California, and a PhD in higher education from Claremont Graduate University.

Bob Landrebe

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Bob Landrebe

Bob Landrebe retired as senior vice president and chief operating officer of Asbury Theological Seminary in June 2019. Upon retirement, he assumed a part-time position at the seminary as a senior associate reporting to the president. For more than thirty years, he has devoted his professional experience to working with nonprofit organizations in financial planning and management. Landrebe has served a variety of college and seminary clients in consulting engagements designed to improve their financial vitality, develop sustainable economic models, and assist in strategic planning. He has been a conference speaker to chief financial officers and new presidents at annual meetings sponsored by The Association of Theological Schools.  He also served as a speaker for the In Trust Center for Theological Schools and as a mentor to educational leaders and their governing boards exploring the financial capacity schools have to achieve their strategic goals. Landrebe recently completed his term of service with the In Trust Center board of directors, and he continues to serve as a consultant and executive coach with nonprofit organizations with a special focus in theological education.

Chelsea Brooke Yarborough

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Chelsea Brooke Yarborough

Chelsea Brooke Yarborough joined the ATS staff in April 2024 as the associate director of leadership development. She works closely with the director of leadership development to support a holistic approach to the Association’s leadership development programming through the cultivation and facilitation of robust communities of practice within the ATS membership.

 Having previously taught at Wake Forest University School of Divinity and at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary, Yarborough comes to ATS from Phillips Theological Seminary where she was assistant professor of African American preaching, sacred rhetoric, and Black practical theology. Her research reimagines the nature and purpose of preaching and worship through the rhetorical and ritual practices of Black women throughout history and aims to decenter normative systems of power and paradigms of proclamation by considering platforms beyond the pulpit for the voices of preachers. She has published several journal articles and is a contributing author in multiple books.

 Yarborough is a preacher, an ordained minister in the Baptist tradition, a poet, and an enneagram coach. She received her Master of Divinity degree from Wake Forest University School of Divinity and her PhD in homiletics and liturgics from Vanderbilt University.


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Webinar Contact
Monica Laughery

Date & Time
Wed, Oct 23, 2024 , 1:00 p.m. ET
Wed, Oct 23, 2024 , 2:00 p.m. ET

Location
Zoom

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