IMAGINE-ABLE Leadership: Keys to Unlocking the Transformational Leader Within You

December 3, 2025

IMAGINE-ABLE Leadership: Keys to Unlocking the Transformational Leader Within You

Derrick Rodgers | 2024

Abstract

In a world that demands so much of the role of leadership, this doctoral project operated within the premise that every individual harbors transformational leadership potential, waiting to be awakened and harnessed. Through that lens, this project aimed to address the question: How can anyone unlock and cultivate the transformational leadership potential within themselves to inspire, motivate, and guide themselves, their team, and their organization toward continuous growth, innovation, and learning?

“IMAGINE-ABLE Leadership: Keys to Unlocking the Transformational Leader Within You” was written to serve as a comprehensive guide through three leadership realms into addressing the need for leadership, navigating its challenges, and fostering leadership development. The journey culminates in the last realm, introducing the IMAGINE-ABLE Leadership Framework, a visionary yet actionable approach developed during my academic journey at Regent University.

The project introduces a new leadership framework that combines visionary elements (IMAGINE) with actionable excellence (ABLE), with ten specific competencies and five leadership practices to discover your leadership capabilities for transformation. The project introduces the framework in partnership with a few popular leadership styles, frameworks, and theories to establish a correlation for the reader with how they can use this new framework with existing assessment tools in the marketplace.

This project, the writing of “IMAGINE-ABLE Leadership,” would not have been possible without the deeply personal, introspective scholarly journey into the essence of achieving excellence, embracing vision, and mastering the art of leadership that began five years ago. The spiritual, scholarly, and personal lessons learned over five years unleashed leadership potential, which I infused as personal reflections throughout this manuscript. My prayer is that future readers of this manuscript will be guidedtoward their divinely inspired dreams and goals and become empowered to embrace their identity as IMAGINE-ABLE LEADERS!

Keywords:Transformational leadership, IMAGINE-ABLE Leadership, Leadership Challenges, Leadership Development, Entrepreneurial Leadership, Ministry Leadership, Self-Leadership, Team Leadership, Organizational Leadership

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