What the Church Needs to Know About Toxic Leadership | Yulee Lee
How can we recognize harmful leadership when it is hidden behind charisma, competence, or apparent kindness?
In this episode of Hear Women, Tara Beth Leach welcomes Yulee Lee, leadership expert and author of Unmasking Toxic Leadership, for an honest conversation about toxic leadership, healing, discernment, and the kind of leadership that helps people flourish. Drawing from her own experiences with both healthy and harmful leaders, Lee reflects on how our wounds can shape the way we lead and why true leadership renewal requires more than simply trying to avoid becoming like the people who hurt us.
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Lee calls churches to move beyond good intentions and prepare for difficult moments by providing support, protection from retaliation, fair processes, and clear ways to report abuse outside the authority of the person being reported. Drawing from the story of the Good Samaritan, she asks what it would look like for the church to offer practical, costly care to people who have been wounded by toxic leadership.
Rather than simply recycling harmful patterns, this conversation encourages leaders to use their God-given imagination to consider a kind of leadership that heals rather than harms.
This episode highlights the following themes:
✅ How to recognize toxic leadership when the signs are subtle
✅ Why discernment requires awareness, wisdom, and the courage to act
✅ How churches can better care for people who have been harmed by toxic leaders
Links from this episode:
✅ Learn more about Yulee Lee (https://www.ivpress.com/yulee-lee?utm_source=ivpod25&utm_medium=ivp_hw&utm_campaign=show_notes)
✅ Read Unmasking Toxic Leadership (https://www.ivpress.com/unmasking-toxic-leadership?utm_source=ivpod25&utm_medium=ivp_hw&utm_campaign=show_notes) by Yulee Lee
✅ Read Prey Tell (https://link.amazon/B01uZonch) by Tiffany Bluhm
✅ Read the transcript here (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1halDx6sOZGv7ER-NSHoTBwlod46X8INk/view?usp=drive_link)
✅ Learn more about Hear Women
