The Transformational Leadership program at Yale Divinity School offers intensive, two-day weekend courses taught by leaders in church and society, recognizing that such close interaction with notable leaders serves to inspire the vocational vision and build a more expansive understanding of what is possible for the theologically trained leader of the future.
The one-credit courses are limited to matriculated students at YDS and other Yale graduate and professional schools. Friday evening public conversations are open to the public and are broadcast on the YDS Livestream channel, so that a broader audience can experience the witness and the model of our guests.
Students may register for these individual courses just as they register for any other class. No more than two may be taken for credit within a semester, and no more than three may be applied to a degree program. Questions may be addressed to Associate Dean Bill Goettler at william.goettler@yale.edu
See videos of many of our guest speakers at the Yale Divinity School YouTube channel.
Speakers
Fall 2025
Friday and Saturday, October 3 and 4 – Editors and Writers as Transformational Leadership, REL 3900-01
Betsy Shirley ‘15 M.Div., Editor in Chief, Sojourner’s Magazine
Including a Friday, October 3, at 7 pm Public conversation – Writing Religion: Articulating the Call to Faith and Justice, in the YDS Common Room
Friday and Saturday, November 7 and 8, – A Methodist at the Vatican: Leadership in Ecumenical Life, REL 3900-02
Rev. Matthew Laferty ‘11 M.Div. , the Methodist Church’s permanent ecumenical representative to the Holy See
Including a Friday, November 7, 7 pm Public Conversation, in public conversation with Professor Mark Heim, in the YDS Common Room
