Adrian Pei – Healthy Leaders

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Adrian Pei

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Adrian's passion is to make leadership connections about topics that matter. His current job is to oversee leadership training and content development for an Asian American ministry organization. Adrian consults, writes, speaks, and designs content. He loves innovating, collaborating, and seeing a project through from start to finish. Adrian graduated with degrees from Stanford University and Fuller Seminary and lives with his family in sunny southern California.

The Evolution of a Leader

Don’t be discouraged if you wrestle with yourself in leadership … it’s normal, and it can help others truly know you.

Less Is More

Every dialogue can be either a competition, or a bond of connection with another person.

Are You Drained or Tired?

When are we truly loving people, and when are we just getting “sucked dry?”

Great Leaders are Great Observers

Many of the leaders I’ve known aren’t too quick to speak, despite their many years of life. They have a quiet confidence about them and an inner security in who they are. They look at the people and world around them with curiosity and they listen more than they talk.

Why Don’t We “Circle Back” More Often

Even if we make a mistake, it’s almost never too late to “try again.”

Thinking Too Highly of Our Leaders

Do we need to re-humanize the leaders and spokespeople in our lives?

Ambition, Fame and Our Obsession With Success

No matter how big our church or ministry is, no matter how much we are respected, we are never “above” God’s words that remind us that “the first shall be last” and that “those who exalt themselves will be humbled.” If anybody was deserving, it was Jesus, but He chose humility, sacrifice and death for those He loved. May our ambition not [...]

A Perspective on Bad Leadership

Why I’m most grateful for the worst examples of leadership.

Growth Is Hope (a Sweet Taste of the Future)

An update on my garden, and on areas I need to grow in personally.

The Temptation of the “Quick Fix” in Leadership

Sometimes we have to look at things on a deeper, heart level and understand why people and situations are the way they are. Even why we are the way we are, and what we might need to change.

Great Leaders Are Great Observers

This is Part 1 in a series on Listening Over my life, I’ve been fortunate to work with many leaders who are older and wiser. Sometimes when people have that much experience, they’re tempted to be “advice dispensers” – to always need to educate, direct, and caution everyone around them. But many of the leaders I’ve […]

Why Leaders Must Not Be Afraid of Doing Hard Things

As leaders, doing what’s “most needed or important,” and serving others and the greater good, often requires doing the hard things in life, whether it’s confronting somebody or holding them accountable for their actions.

The Role of Patience and Pain in Leadership

Looking around at the most relevant and cutting edge ideas about leadership today, I’m guessing these two ‒ patience and pain ‒ probably wouldn’t make the list..

Great Preacher = Great Leader? Not So Fast!

When a leader admits his or her weaknesses in front of an audience, I think to myself: “That’s great that you see that and can articulate it so well. But how will you follow that up? What kinds of steps will you take over the next few months and years in response to what you just shared with everyone? Are you sharing because you want [...]

Before We Criticize Our Leaders

How do we respond when our leaders fail or disappoint us?

Resisting Temptation: The Urgent and the Loud

Conformity is doing the minimum, the easiest thing … which is usually to see and react to our immediate surroundings and behave like everybody else – whether on e-mail, social media, or at a social gathering. Leadership is about seeing and noticing more.

Great Answers or Great Questions?

Four questions I love to ask, and three unexpected benefits that come with them.

Why Logic Is Overrated

Many people aren’t looking for a rational explanation from their leaders, but for a relational connection.

Ask, Don’t Assume! (Open and Closed Systems)

What I’ve learned is that there are two modes we get into as leaders ‒ closed and open. I wouldn’t let anything or anybody get in so everything stayed the same.

From Passivity to Empowerment

Leading in weakness does not mean passivity, and it’s not just for times of crisis or exhaustion.