Winner of a 2025 Excellence in Publishing Award from the Association of Catholic Publishers: Resources for Ministry (Third Place [tie]). Winner of a 2025 CMA Book Award from the Catholic Media Association: Religious Book Series (Second Place). Catholic theologian Ann M. Garrido―author of the bestselling and award-winning book Redeeming Administration ―continues her work on Christian leadership by examining power not as a manipulative force in short supply but as Jesus understood it: an abundant good meant to be shared and put to use for the sake of harmony and holiness. In Redeeming Power , Garrido helps you develop a spirituality of power by considering the skills and personal qualities that will enable a healthy and holy use of power in your role as one who leads. Garrido explores key passages from the creation stories of Genesis where we find the roots of how Jesus understood power. She shows how God shares divine power with all humans and calls leaders to specific ways of exercising power that will benefit the people and institutions they serve. Joining these biblical lessons to her personal experience, and with help from nearly forty interviews of leaders in nonprofit organizations, business, and the Church, Garrido offers insight and guidance into many of the challenges contemporary leaders face, including how to set―and adapt as needed―healthy boundaries for yourself and within the institution or community you serve, - honor confidentiality while seeking to be transparent, - share power with others, - use one’s power on behalf of justice, - stay rooted in the everyday, hands-on work of those you serve, and - discern why and organize how you spend time and energy in order to bring balance to your life and work. Garrido provides you with holy companions for your leadership journey, including Maria Montessori, Nicholas Black Elk, Benedict of Nursia, Kaloli Lwanga, Thea Bowman, Hildegard of Bingen, Mark Ji Tianxiang, Margaret of Scotland, and Jean Baptiste de La Salle. Questions for self-reflection or group study are included at the end of each chapter and a companion discussion guide is available to download for free at avemariapress.com. “This book gave me fresh, practical, and atypically positive insights into my own use of power in leadership. Ann Garrido has helped me reflect on the leadership actions I take every day as creative opportunities to participate in building God’s Kingdom.” -- Crystal Caruana Sullivan , executive director of Campus Ministry, University of Dayton “Profound, impactful, moving. In a simple and brilliant way, Ann Garrido prompts us to become the leaders God called us to be. Her storytelling grants you the opportunity to experience Christ and to delight daily in his power. As a Catholic educator, I find this work is a beautiful, necessary reminder for me not only of who I am, but whose I am.” -- Ashley Rae Mathis , head of school, Notre Dame High School, San Jose, California “Ann Garrido’s analysis of power for contemporary Catholic leaders will open your eyes to various dimensions of this human capacity, which Christians too often refer to pejoratively. We all must use and experience power, and Garrido’s exploration of it within the Christian context will help leaders be more mindful of relationships and how to use power more fruitfully.” -- Scott Bader , director of Parish Financial Services, Archdiocese of Seattle “Ann Garrido masterfully breaks down the stigma around ‘power’ in Christian leadership. Good stewardship of the power God has entrusted to us is imperative for all who seek to witness for Christ in our professional lives. The lessons of this book are applicable to young professionals and longtime leaders alike—anyone who aspires to a position of leadership!” -- Jennifer Baugh , founder of Young Catholic Professionals “Pastoral ministers and all Catholics who lead will find in Redeeming Power a book full of wonderful insights! Using Genesis and the gospels as her foundation, Ann Garrido offers twelve thought-provoking and inspiring theological reflections on the gift of power along with practical lessons and guidance from Church leaders past and present.” -- Brian B. Reynolds , chancellor and chief administrative officer, Archdiocese of Louisville “A timely consideration of power and a joyous call to the vocation of a leader! Ann Garrido’s exploration truly frees leadership from a function of control and management to an imaginative process of living out our baptismal call and working to bring forth the Reign of God in our time. Catholic leaders in any role will benefit deeply from reading and pondering long into the future the stories and questions offered here.” -- Carrie Meyer McGrath , system director for Formation, Commonspirit Health “Accessible, insightful, and thoughtful in the ways that Ann Garrido draws deep connections between leadership, power, and our Judeo-Christian tradition. As a professor who helps aspiring Catholic school leaders