HARPERONE GROUP COLLABORATES WITH VIOLA DAVIS, JULIUS TENNON, AND LAVAILLE LAVETTE’S JVL MEDIA ON NEW PROJECT
From the release:
“Call & Response: 10 Leadership Lessons from the Black Church by L. Michelle Smith is a captivating exploration of why many high-ranking, high-performing Black professionals attribute their leadership skills to their origins in the Black Church.”
Read all about it here.
I’m eternally grateful for this opportunity, and I am looking forward to working closely with everyone involved to get this important, first of it’s kind, evidence-based, culturally-nuanced leadership book out into the world!
This has been quite an amazing journey.
A huge congratulations to Amistad Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishing / and JVL Media on this genius partnership and accomplishment! I appreciate my work being seen and valued, because it’s collaborations like these that move the needle forward for authors like myself. It also sparks the most vital and creative conversations.
Call & Response: 10 Leadership Lessons from the Black Church. (Amistad/HarperCollins/JVL/), Winter 2026.
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