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No Ceiling: Carol Taylor

Evangel University

BY: Christine Temple, Features Editorctemple@sbj.net

Posted online November 30, 2020 | 3:10 pm

On Leadership

“If you look at the most effective leaders, they somehow have figured out along the way that the most effective way to lead any organization is to realize that I’m here to serve you. Our organizations don’t exist to make us rich, famous, to have some privileged life. Our organizations exist so that we can help make them better.”

After 45 years in education, with the last seven as president of Evangel University, Carol retired this fall. Her retirement was postponed so she could stay on to lead the school through the COVID-19 pandemic. That move was in Carol’s nature as she’s not one to back down from a challenge. In this podcast, Carol discusses her abrupt appointment to lead Vanguard in California, as the university was threatened with losing its accreditation. And stepping into her role at Evangel and succeeding Robert Spence, the second-longest serving college president nationwide. She says she found purpose and power in being her own kind of leader. And those challenges? Well, she says her life has been marked by giving an unqualified yes to anything God has in store.

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