Moral Leadership: Integrity, Courage, Imagination

by Robert Michael Franklin

Whether in a local community, an educational institution, or a global organization, the key to addressing the current crisis in American public life is genuine moral leadership. Moral leadership is anchored in intellectual and ethical integrity, a vision of and commitment to the public good, and personal investment in transformative community. Drawing on a lifetime of witnessing, emulating, and nurturing such leadership, Robert Michael Franklin proposes a model for moral leadership and ways in which readers in any context can discover and foster those qualities in themselves.

200 pages, Paperback

Published February 21, 2024

Reviews

[Paul Womack · Rating 5 out of 5]

I cannot be objective since I am acquainted with Dr. Franklin and read this volume while at Chautauqua (a place and Institution he mentions in this volume). It is a very fine primer on moral leadership and is germane to these vexing times and the conflicting and paradoxical needs of the American public for certainty on the one hand and aspirtional and visionary possibilities on the other. It is too bad this work was not around in my formative educational years; perhaps ot would have given me the energy to be less the Reverend on a gray flannel suit and more an exemplar of the beloved community.

[Jean-Bernard (JB) Faton · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really loved this book! Franklin’s insights are rich and deeply connected to history in a way that makes leadership feel both meaningful and possible. It left me feeling genuinely hopeful about what strong, moral leadership can look like today.