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Leading in the Unknown: A New Paradigm for Leaders in Intercollegiate Athletics presents a new vision of leadership for practitioners, scholars, and leaders within higher education. This book is situated within the unprecedented confluence of the global Covid-19 pandemic, societal injustice, and severe economic depression for which intercollegiate athletics was not immune. Dr. Brandon E. Martin is uniquely positioned within the landscape of intercollegiate athletics as a former Division I Athlete, Vice Chancellor/Athletics Director at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Respected Scholar, and Co-Chair of the Black Athletic Director Alliance. This work represents the unique collection of experiences that inform Dr. Martin's approach to leadership that acknowledges current cultural realities and the necessity to reimagine how to engage with athletic programs, institutions, and student-athletes.Traditional leadership strategies and maxims are infused with culturally relevant principles that address current and future challenges facing the world of intercollegiate athletics. In this book, Dr. Martin invites current leadership voices in intercollegiate athletics to illustrate principles of leadership. The following leadership principles are discussed across the first six chapters: 1) Multidimensional Contexts 2) Cultural Agility3) Catalytic Leadership 4) Dynamic Flexibility 5) Mindful Leadership 6) Cultural SafetyEach of these chapters end with practical takeaways that provide an initial "game plan" for leaders seeking immediate guidance on how to approach challenges in their respective institutions. In a final chapter, additional intercollegiate athletics leaders are featured to continue the conversation with leaders facing crises on multiple fronts. This book is designed to give current and future leaders new language, practices, and approaches to leadership that can elevate equity, diversity, inclusion, and social justice efforts across all levels of intercollegiate athletics.

Yes, you can pick up the pieces and walk in your "TRUTH". A collaboration of true stories that speak truth about brokenness, betrayal, pain and loss. Through the power of the Holy Spirit; forgiveness, self love and purpose can be achieved.

"Committed to Love" is a deeply personal one. It details the many issues and experiences I had to confront and deal with in my twenty-five-year marriage to a bisexual man who succumbed to AIDS. The twenty-four chapters in this book range from his diagnosis on June 19, 1992, with AIDS related pneumonia to his death on August 17, 1994. Every aspect of my relationship with Dr. Jeffrey A. Mintz, both as my best friend of thirty-seven years and my husband of twenty-five is explored in explicit detail. The challenge of a marriage under these circumstances was to say the least, both chaotic yet most rewarding. My thoughts about love evoked images of champagne, roses, and chocolates. Yes, I had a lot of all of them in my marriage, but the reality and truth about my life with him was that the word love for me had always meant commitment, unconditional acceptance, and facing every problem with a solution even if I didn't know what the solution would be.It is in this particular area that I feel my most powerful impact. To say that my marriage was unconventional and that it was difficult is an understatement. But, I would do it all over again because my journey with Jeff provided me the opportunity to discover my own true definition of love. For in those twenty-five years, I was able to find my core, my strength, my faith, my hope, and my true understanding that I was chosen to love him. I was chosen to stay with him. And I was chosen to be able to watch him become the stranger in my bed due to the horrific devastation that his virus brought. To this day, I remain in my heart, Jeff's wife, friend, caregiver, and devoted partner. My hope is that with this book, others may gather up the strength and fortitude to commit to their marriage vows before God first and then, commit to their marriage. May this book give you the understanding of how remarkably strong you can be and how capable you truly are when "Committed to Love."

Leanne Burke had a life that would have left many twenty-five-year-old women feeling helpless and alone. After experiencing a run of broken relationships, Leanne finds herself in a relationship with someone who makes her sacrifice much of her dignity, morality and self-esteem. Getting involved with Junior, a big-time drug dealer she barely even knew, commits her to a marriage she would keep secret from her friends and family. Life quickly takes a turn for the worse as Leanne is repeatedly abused and resorts to a life of crime just to pay the bills. Finding herself in a downward spiral Leanne vows to break free from the life that threatens to keep her in the shadows of drugs, physical abuse, and crime. Her newfound faith in God and doing what is right for herself and for others becomes the stepping stone for Leanne to begin a new life based on hope, willpower and love.