Scott Cormode
Hugh De Pree Professor of Leadership Development
School of
Mission and Theology
BS, University of California, San Diego
MDiv, Fuller Theological Seminary
PhD, Yale University
Courses Taught
GM522: Leadership in Context
GM539: Religious Fund-Raising
IS500: Touchstone
Campus Affiliations
Areas of Expertise
Leadership and leadership development, organizational administration, use of technologyVideos
“Stories provide a framework for putting events into a coherent structure that ties together the past, the present, and the future. And practices allow people to take actions that encapsulate the ends to which they aspire. By putting all these together, a pastor can change the way that her congregation sees the world, and by changing the ways that a congregant sees the world, the pastor can change the very world in which that person lives.”
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Bio
A member of the faculty at Fuller since 2006, Scott Cormode (PhD. Yale University) is the Hugh De Pree Professor of Leadership Development in the School of Theology. He also served as academic dean from 2013 to 2015. His most recent book is The Innovative Church (2020).
This faculty chair was established by the family of the late Hugh De Pree, an accomplished leader and brother of longtime Fuller board member Max De Pree, in order to further develop leadership training programs within the School of Theology and the De Pree Leadership Center.
Dr. Cormode has brought significant leadership and teaching experience to this position, as an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) who, prior to joining Fuller, served as George Butler Associate Professor of Church Administration and Finance at Claremont School of Theology.
In 1998, Cormode founded the Academy of Religious Leadership, an organization for professors who teach leadership in seminaries, and, in 2001, created the Journal of Religious Leadership.
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