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Course
Road Ahead
~15 Hours
The Road Ahead course will help you make sense of the season of work you’re in and take the next steps on the road God is inviting you to travel. This course will guide you through the inner work God is calling you to do.
Michaela O'Donnell
About This Course
Walk with confidence in the work God is calling you to.
The Road Ahead course will help you make sense of the season of work you’re in and take the next steps on the road God is inviting you to travel. This course will guide you through the inner work God is calling you to do.
Road Ahead is rooted in research that studied Christian entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurial leaders have a keen ability to press into the fog. They bring a unique lens to the tasks of discernment and taking next steps. Paired with biblical frameworks, this experience will help you develop a toolkit to navigate seasons of transition and disruption, seasons when the road ahead is foggy, the map of your life has become outdated, and courage is needed to keep going.
Learning Outcomes
- Examine and understand your current season of life;
- Discern your vocational longings;
- Practice moving toward yourself and others in empathy;
- Imagine and describe different ways of living into your longing and God’s mission of redemption; and
- Create a plan to take a doable risk and reflect on your experience stepping into God’s call in this particular season of life.
Produced by the De Pree Center, hosted by FULLER Equip.
- Spiritual Formation & Vocation or Calling
- Spiritual Formation
1. Getting Started
Your Story, God’s Calling
2. Framing Our Calling
3. A New Framework for Calling
4. Your Road of Calling
5. Braintrusts
What Do You Long For?
6. The Shape of Change
7. The Story of the Good Samaritan
8. Reflecting on Your Pain Points and Longings
Practice Empathy
9. Mapping Our Journey
10. Empathy Along the Way
11. Moving Toward Someone
Practice Imagination
12. Converting Empathy into Imagination
13. The Power of Stories
14. The Practice of Imaginative Prayer
15. Asking “What If?”
Practice Risk
16. Next Doable Risks
17. Risks, Prototypes, and Following God’s Spirit
18. Finding Your Next Doable Risks
Practice Reflection
19. Looking Back to Move Forward
20. Iteration
21. The Road of Calling Revisited
22. Moving Forward
Your Instructor
Michaela O'Donnell
PhD, Executive Director of the Max De Pree Center for Leadership
Michaela is the Mary and Dale Andringa Executive Director Chair at the Max De Pree Center for Leadership. She is also an assistant professor of marketplace leadership and the lead professor for Fuller Seminary’s Doctor of Global Leadership, Redemptive Imagination in the Marketplace program. She is the author of two books, Life in Flux: Navigational Skills to Guide and Ground You in an Ever-Changing World written with Lisa Pratt Slayton (Baker Books, 2024), and Make Work Matter: Your Guide to Meaningful Work in a Changing World (Baker Books, 2021). In addition to her academic work, Michaela has over fifteen years of experience as a leader in the marketplace. Principally, as the owner and managing director of Long Winter Media, a vibrant creative agency that helps brands make social impact through multi-media content. Long Winter Media’s roster of clients includes Google, YouTube, NBC Universal, the University of Southern California, Presbyterian Church (USA), and many more. Notably, the Oprah Winfrey Network picked up a short film Long Winter Media produced for an episode of Oprah’s show Super Soul Sundays with Glennon Doyle.
