Full Description
Walk With Me: Lessons in Transcendent Leadership is a powerful exploration of leadership beyond position and performance—offering a visionary model rooted in spiritual intelligence, ethical courage, and communal elevation. Authored by Dr. Hakim J. Lucas, a transcendent higher education leader, this book reimagines what it means to lead in institutions facing complexity, constraint, and change—especially in the context of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), faith-based organizations, and social-impact institutions.
Transcendent leadership, as defined in this work, is not hierarchical but relational. It is not driven by ego or authority, but by authenticity, resilience, and divine purpose. Through deeply reflective storytelling, institutional case studies, and African fables, Dr. Lucas offers a leadership framework that values transparency over perfection, process over position, and people over politics.
More than a personal memoir or leadership manual, Walk With Me is an invitation: for presidents, provosts, pastors, and changemakers to lead with soul, serve with integrity, and walk with those they lead—not ahead or above, but beside. In a time when higher education, especially at mission-driven institutions, requires bold vision and prophetic imagination, this book is a guide for becoming the kind of leader who not only transforms—but transcends. This is not just leadership. This is a walk of purpose.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. You Drive, and I Ride
Chapter 2. Leave Everything at the Door, Only Bring Your Authentic Self
Chapter 3. Don't Ask for the Vision, Write the Vision
Chapter 4. Don't Defend Mediocrity (B.S.)
Chapter 5. Fail Fast and Fail Forward
Chapter 6. Dance at Your Own Risk
Chapter 7. Don't Fertilize Your Career with Other People's Dung
Chapter 8. Find the Gift in Your Scars
Chapter 9. Work Less and Lead More
Chapter 10. Work to Remove Stains of Inferiority
Conclusion
