Sarah Drummond
Professional Role
Sarah B. Drummond serves as Founding Dean of Andover Newton Seminary and Professor in the Practice of Ministerial Leadership at Yale Divinity School. She has been part of Andover Newton, a graduate theological school focused on ministry education for locally governed faith communities, since 2005. At Andover Newton at YDS, Sarah is lead administrator for a professional school for congregational ministry within a world-class ecumenical divinity school. She teaches and writes about leadership and serves as combination advisor/minister/mentor to ministers in-formation. Sarah is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ.
Educational Background
Sarah earned her PhD in Urban Education at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee with a specialization in administrative leadership. Sarah earned her Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School, where she also served on the staff of Memorial Church in Harvard Yard and earned a Hopkins Share award for promise for ministry. Her Bachelor of Arts degree comes from Yale College, where she majored in Ethics, Politics, and Economics. Her thesis on citizenship theory’s implications for North African immigrant women in France earned her Yale’s Wrexham Prize for the best Senior Essay in the social sciences. She was Class Marshall for Saybrook College at Yale.
Writing and Publications
Sarah has written five books on the subject of ministerial leadership and dozens of articles on the same. Her most recent books are Intentional Leadership In Between Seasons, and Sharing Leadership: A United Church of Christ Way of Being In-Community. They were published by the Pilgrim Press in 2022 and 2021 respectively. Sarah ‘blogs weekly on Medium, https://sbdrummond.medium.com/. In that series, she directly addresses dimensions of ministerial leadership too-often approached tangentially or in-passing.
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Books
- Leading with Wonder and Wherewithal. Under contract with Fortress Press for 2024
- Intentional Leadership In Between Times. The Pilgrim Press, 2022
- Sharing Leadership: A United Church of Christ Way of Being in Community. The Pilgrim Press, 2021
- Dynamic Discernment: Reason, Emotion, and Power in Faith Community Change Leadership. The Pilgrim Press, 2019
- Leading Change in Campus Religious Life. Scholars’ Press, 2015
- Holy Clarity: The Practice of Planning and Evaluation. The Alban Institute, 2009
