192. Leading Change Without Authority, with Roy Inzunza, Corporate Chaplain

Roy Inzunza is corporate chaplain at Hoehn Motors in San Diego and works as an adaptive leadership coach with Tod Bolsinger.

In this episode, Roy Inzunza shares about his experience as a corporate chaplain.  He shares not only how he began to see needs in the staff and in the organization that no one else saw—or no one was addressing—but he also shares how he began to lead from the margins.  By changing himself he began to change the system.


THIS EPISODE'S HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

• Roy Inzunza is corporate chaplain at Hoehn Motors in San Diego and works as an adaptive leadership coach with Tod Bolsinger.
• Inzunza started his own chaplaincy business called SquarePatch, providing spiritual care and well-being to clients.
• Being a corporate chaplain comes with challenges as the workforce is often diverse in terms of beliefs and issues.
• Roy Inzunza has dealt with various issues like divorce, addiction, health problems, and workplace dynamics in his role as a chaplain.
• His pursuit of a Doctor of Ministry at Fuller Theological Seminary has helped him explore how the Gospel impacts personal and professional thriving.
• Inzunza has expanded his focus to include caring for the shared life and health of the organization.
• The positive response to his recent work has led to requests for training managers to make adaptive shifts in managing conflict.
• Low morale and a lack of joy in the workplace are pain points that Roy addresses in his chaplaincy work.
• Roy Inzunza highlights the importance of making adaptive shifts to increase joy in the workplace.
• Navigating resistance from others when making changes is a challenge that Inzunza has faced.
• Roy reflects on his initial defensive response to resistance and acknowledges the ongoing issue that needed addressing.
• Both Inzunza and Watson emphasize that leadership requires personal change as well.
• Inzunza describes the experiments he is conducting to address adaptive challenges, such as sending a weekly email about workplace courage practices.  The positive responses and conversations sparked by the email have surprised Roy.

RELEVANT RESOURCES AND LINKS:

• Roy Inzunza
  • Squarepatch.org 
• Church Leadership Institute
• Adaptive Church Leadership Cohort
• Books mentioned:
  • Life of the Beloved, by Henri Nouwen
• Fuller Theological Seminary
  • Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) Program

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