Call and Response Book Signing With Fireside Chat at Greater Life Church

A conversation about leading with heart. Join L. Michelle Smith for insights from Call & Response and a live discussion on leadership.

Join award-winning author and leadership expert L. Michelle Smith for conversation, insight, and connection around her bestselling book, Call & Response: 10 Leadership Lessons from the Black Church.

In this special Dallas event, Smith will be in conversation with Pastor Stephen Brown to explore what it means to return to heart-centered leadership at a time when many leaders are navigating burnout, disconnection, and increasingly harsh, machine-centered norms.

Blending history and culture, applied positive psychology and neuroscience, and modern leadership theory, Call & Response reframes the Black Church as one of the most enduring leadership incubators in American life, and offers a timely framework for leading with purpose, resilience, and community today.

This event will include a live panel discussion, a reading, audience Q&A, and book signing. Whether you’re a leader in business, education, the arts, ministry, or community, this evening is an invitation to reflect, reconnect, and reimagine how we lead—together.

Books will be available for purchase on-site.