Geoffrey Vandermolen

Results-driven and visionary leader with a deep commitment to formative development of organizations, growth, and individual leaders. Vast leadership experience growing and renewing both organizations and the leaders within them. Skilled strategic planner, dynamic team leader, , and committed to comprehensive resource and program development. Capably built two new organizations, lead adaptive and catalytic change within 3 other mid-large sized organizations. Preference for leading/ supervising empowered and equipped teams. Vibrant track record of consistently cultivating a thriving and healthy organizational culture. Experience in course and program development. Dynamic teacher in residential, hybrid and online modalities at Certificate, Bachelors, Master, and Doctoral levels. Committed to collective and shared decision making, discernment, and execution. Track record of providing capable resource acquisition and oversight. Seeks to develop the thriving well-being of every context in ways that reflect justice and equity.

Leadership and Administration

• Envisioned and developed the Vocational Formation Office at Calvin Theological Seminary including constructing delivery systems, courses, mentor training material for 70+ recruited local mentors from diverse denominational backgrounds
• Partnering with faculty colleagues for the integration of in-class and in-context learning for global delivery of impactful programming (2016-present)
• Chairperson: Next Steps Team for re-imagining the vision and action steps at Calvin Seminary (2018)
• Chairperson: Academics and Programs overseeing courses, vision adherence, program assessment (2019-2021)
• Chairperson: Student Care Team in partnership with the Candidacy Committee of the Christian Reformed Church in North America (2016-present)
• Member of the Master of Divinity and Master of Arts in Christian Leadership Curriculum Revision Team (2020)
• Initiated and delivered Diversity, Equity and Inclusion training for Masters level students (2017-present)
• Member of President's Administrative Council (2016-present)
• Member of Faculty Status and Development Committee (2021-present)
• Emerging comprehension and utilization of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) for team development and task effectiveness

Staff/ Team Development

• Lead the Vocational Formation Office team including weekly meetings, reviews of work, goals, strategies, assessments as this team develops and grows
• Mentor for team development of skills, character and overall impact
• Formation of cohesive and vision directed teams in established churches and emerging organizations
• Led hiring processes for internal team development

Consulting and Ministry Leadership

• Leadership consultation with various churches and organizations for increased productivity
• Consultant to establishing a curricular formation processes at another seminary
• Mentor students for leader development

Service to Church and Community

• Part of the Thriving Leadership Initiative for the city of Grand Rapids
• Advisor to the Financial Shalom Project for ministry leaders
• Serve on the CRCNA study team on matters related to bi-vocationality for leaders
• Served on the leadership formation team for missional leaders via Resonate Global Mission
• Seminar leadership for Grand Rapids Chamber of Commerce
• Serve on the Professional Advisory group for assessing church planters for Resonate Global Mission
• Mentor in Harvard Divinity School Formation Project for Leaders
• Strategic Advisory Team member for in my local church
• Member of the Professional Advisory Group for Pine Rest Clinical Pastoral Education program
• Advisor to the Distance Clinical Pastoral Education program at Pine Rest Mental Health Hospital
• Member of the Competency Based Educational team

Leadership In Teaching

• Impactful teaching in the Bachelor, Master of Divinity, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Ministry degree programs including such courses as: Leading Out of Who You Are, Leadership in Ministry, Missional Church Planting, Leadership Coaching, Seeds of Justice and Shalom, The PERSON course, The Abbey, Transformational Leadership, Interpreting Culture and Ministry Contexts
• Led learning tour of St. Milletus seminary (London, England) and their adaptive formation of leaders process
• Supervise independent studies in matters related to organizational leadership, leader development, and personal/ spiritual formation for leaders across the globe
• Taught in partnership with Timothy Leadership Training and Union Seminary (New Delhi, India)

Association of Theological Field Educators - Minneapolis, January 2017

Theological Educators and the Military - San Antonio, May 2017

Pastoral Theology at the Margins - Washington, October 2017

Association of Theological Schools Roundtable Seminary for Faculty - Chicago, October 2018

Association of Theological Field Educators - Asheville, 2019

Israel, Egypt, Jordan Learning Tour Participant - May 2019

Samuel DeWit-Proctor Leadership Conference - Washington DC, 2019

Association of Doctor of Ministry Educators - Virtual, Spring 2020

Competency Based Theological Education - Virtual, November 2020

Competency Based Education - November 2021

Association of Doctor of Ministry Educators - April 2022

Academy of Religious Leadership - April 2022

Competency Based Theological Education Consultation - May 2022

Samuel DeWit-Proctor Conference - February 2023

Association of Doctor of Ministry Educators - April 2023