Necessary Burdens
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Leadership looks impressive from the outside, but from the inside, it can feel isolating, relentless, and heavy. Senior leaders carry responsibilities no one else fully understands--decisions without peers, criticism without context, and pressure that follows them long after the workday ends. Necessary Burdens draws on decades of real-world leadership from two preeminent names in leadership and psychology, exploring unseen realities that come with authority: loneliness, identity strain, accountability, temptation, disruption, and the challenge of sustaining personal well-being while stewarding an organization. These pressures are not framed as failures or flaws, but as defining features of leadership itself.
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Barry H. Corey has served as president of Biola University, a top-ranked Christian liberal arts university, since assuming the role in 2007. He is the author of several books including The Treasurer: A Biography of Herbert Stewart Gray, and has contributed to notable publications like The Washington Post, and The National Review. With a PhD. in education from Boston College, Corey is a Fulbright scholar and a leader known for navigating cultural shifts in a polarized world. He and his wife, Paula, have three children: Anders, Ella, and Samuel, and reside in Southern California.
John Townsend, author of more than thirty books with over ten million copies sold, is a business consultant, leadership coach, relationship expert, and psychologist known for the New York Times best-selling Boundaries series with Dr. Henry Cloud. He hosts the Dr. Townsend Podcast and co-hosts New Life Live, offering practical solutions to complex personal and organizational challenges. He is the founder of the Townsend Institute for Leadership and Counseling at Concordia University, Irvine. Dr. Townsend lives in Southern California with his wife, Barbie, and their two grown sons, Ricky and Benny.