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What Is God Is My CEO About?
Every Christian business leader, every Kenyan entrepreneur of faith, and every professional who takes both their career and their relationship with God seriously eventually faces the same specific tension: the specific moment when what the bottom line demands and what God’s Word requires are not the same thing. The moment when the ethical choice costs money. When integrity means losing the contract. When the right thing is also the hard thing — and the world is watching to see which you choose.
For more than a decade, God Is My CEO has taught readers how to reconcile their work and their faith. Larry Julian — bestselling author, speaker, and executive coach with over two decades of experience working with leaders at companies including 3M, AT&T, General Mills, Honeywell, and Mayo Clinic — has spent his career proving one specific, practically documented thesis: you can do what is right and achieve bottom-line success. You can be both ethical and profitable. God’s principles are not the enemy of business performance — they are its most reliable foundation.
This new 2nd Edition explores the ten most common issues facing businesspeople today and applies God’s principles to these dilemmas. You will learn that leading by faith isn’t just about feeling good — it’s about building employee morale, increasing productivity, and fostering customer loyalty.
This is not a devotional. It is not a theological argument. It is a specific, practically tested, leadership framework for every Christian professional who wants to integrate their faith and their work into a single, coherent, God-honouring life — without choosing between professional excellence and personal integrity.
What Does God Is My CEO Cover? The Ten Principles
Each chapter poses a specific issue that business leaders commonly face and presents God’s principles as the specific solution, transforming workplace problems into both spiritual and bottom-line success stories. The ten issues addressed are: Apple Books
1. Success — Redefining What It Means to Win
The foundational reframe of the entire book: the specific business culture that defines success exclusively by financial metrics versus the specific God-centred understanding that genuine success includes the specific integrity of the means by which results are achieved. Julian interviews real business leaders who faced the specific moment of choosing between worldly success metrics and God’s definition of success — and who discovered that the specific choice of God’s definition consistently produced the specific better outcome, both spiritually and commercially.
The specific Kenyan relevance: Kenya’s rapidly growing Christian entrepreneurial class is navigating this exact tension in every business decision — the specific pressure of a competitive market environment against the specific conviction of a faith that sets non-negotiable ethical boundaries. This chapter gives every Kenyan Christian entrepreneur the specific framework and the specific real-world evidence that the boundaries are not the limitation but the foundation.
2. Patience — The Business Case for Long-Term Thinking
The specific application of the biblical virtue of patience to the specific short-term pressure of business decision-making: how the specific Christian leader who operates on God’s timetable rather than the market’s consistently produces the specific better long-term outcomes that the specific impatient, short-term-reactive leader consistently misses. The specific business case for patience — not passivity, but the specific disciplined willingness to wait for the right moment, the right partner, and the right opportunity rather than forcing premature action that the specific bottom-line pressure consistently demands.
3. Servanthood — The Leadership Model That Outperforms
God Is My CEO shows you that leading by spiritual principles isn’t just about feeling good — it’s also about building morale, increasing productivity, fostering loyalty, and retaining employees. The servant leadership chapter is the practical centre of the book: the specific, documented evidence that the specific leader who serves their team, their customers, and their community consistently outperforms the specific self-serving leader on the specific bottom-line metrics that the specific secular business world uses to judge success. This chapter pairs naturally with Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek — the secular leadership science that confirms what Scripture has always taught about the specific power of the servant leader. Amazon
4. Priorities — Putting First Things First in a 24/7 Business World
The specific priority framework for the specific Christian leader navigating the specific modern business environment’s constant demand for more time, more availability, and more sacrifice of the specific non-business priorities — family, faith, physical health, and community — that God has also specifically entrusted to every leader’s stewardship. How to structure the specific working life around the specific God-given priorities rather than the specific business pressure that consistently tries to invert them.
5. Integrity — The Specific Value That Cannot Be Rebuilt Once Lost
The specific treatment of integrity not as a virtue to be admired in principle but as a specific business asset to be protected in practice: the specific real-world cases of leaders who maintained integrity at specific cost and discovered that the specific long-term business consequence of integrity consistently exceeded the specific short-term cost of the specific moment of choice. The specific Kenyan business context — where the specific temptation of corruption, the specific pressure of competitive undercutting, and the specific normalisation of ethical compromise is a daily reality for every Kenyan business leader — makes this chapter simultaneously the most challenging and the most urgently relevant in the book.
6. Courage — Doing the Right Thing When It Costs Something
The specific leadership courage that God’s principles require in the specific business context: the particular courage to address the specific underperforming employee honestly rather than avoiding the conversation; the specific courage to decline the specific ethically compromised contract rather than rationalising acceptance; the specific courage to speak the specific truth to the specific powerful client, the specific powerful superior, or the specific powerful board that does not want to hear it. The specific real-world examples of leaders who chose courage and discovered that the specific God who called them to it was also the specific God who sustained them through it.
7. Compassion — The Bottom-Line Case for Caring About People
The specific integration of compassion into leadership practice: how the specific leader who genuinely cares about the specific wellbeing of their employees, their customers, and their community consistently builds the specific culture, the specific loyalty, and the specific reputation that produces the specific sustained commercial performance that the specific purely transactional leader cannot match. The specific examples of compassionate business decisions that appeared costly in the short term and proved profitable in the long term — the specific evidence that compassion is not sentiment but strategy.
8. Humility — The Specific Quality That Allows Growth
The specific business case for humility in leadership: how the specific humble leader who acknowledges what they do not know, who genuinely invites the specific expertise of others, and who credits the specific team for the specific outcomes that the specific leader’s ego consistently wants to claim produces the specific better decision-making, the specific better team performance, and the specific better long-term results that the specific arrogant leader’s apparent confidence consistently prevents. The specific Kenyan leadership culture — where the specific authoritarian, top-down management style remains prevalent in many organisations — makes this chapter both countercultural and urgently timely.
9. Trust — Building the Specific Foundation of Every Business Relationship
Trust is the specific currency of every business relationship — the specific element without which no contract, no partnership, no employment relationship, and no customer relationship produces its full potential. Julian documents the specific practices that build the specific trust that the specific God-centred leader cultivates in every professional relationship: the specific consistency between word and action, the specific transparency in difficulty, the specific reliability in commitment, and the specific long-term orientation that the specific transactional business relationship can never replicate.
10. Purpose — Connecting Your Work to Something Larger Than Profit
The specific culminating chapter: the specific understanding that the specific God who created every person also created every person for the specific work that their specific gifts, their specific calling, and their specific position in the specific marketplace makes possible. How the specific leader who understands their work as a specific God-given mission rather than a specific means of income consistently brings the specific motivation, the specific persistence, and the specific moral clarity to their work that the specific purely financially motivated leader cannot sustain through difficulty. This chapter connects deeply with The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren and In Pursuit of Purpose by Myles Munroe — the three books together constituting the most complete Christian purpose framework available to the Kenyan believer who leads in the marketplace.
The All-New Section — Timeless Wisdom from Twenty Leaders
The brand-new section Timeless Wisdom from Twenty Leaders provides insight and encouragement from top members of the business world, including Marc Belton of General Mills, Richard Stearns of World Vision U.S., and Ken Blanchard, author of The One Minute Manager
Julian shares personal stories of twenty Godly leaders — CEOs, multimillionaires, TV managers, a sports coach, and politicians — who have made tough decisions and faced common dilemmas, only to find solutions using Godly principles. This section is the specific practical complement to the ten principles: twenty specific, real-world, documented examples of how the principles work in the specific decisions that real business leaders face. For every Kenyan Christian leader who has ever wondered whether these principles are merely inspirational or genuinely operational, these twenty leaders provide the specific, concrete, business-world evidence.
Who Is Larry Julian?
Larry Julian is a bestselling author, speaker, and executive coach with more than two decades of experience helping CEOs, entrepreneurs, and small business owners successfully lead with their faith and values. His clients have included 3M, AT&T, General Mills, Honeywell, Mayo Clinic, and Qwest. He is also the author of God Is My Coach: A Business Leader’s Guide to Finding Clarity in an Uncertain World and God Is My Success: Transforming Adversity into Your Destiny.
Julian is not a theologian writing about business or a pastor offering workplace application of Sunday sermons. He is a professional leadership consultant with a corporate client roster who has integrated his faith into his professional practice over two decades and documented the specific results. This is the specific credibility that makes God Is My CEO the specific trusted resource it has been for more than a decade.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Can a Christian really follow God’s principles in business and still succeed financially?
Yes — and God Is My CEO documents exactly how. The book presents ten principles with real-world case studies from twenty business leaders who have done precisely this. Leading by faith, Julian demonstrates, is not a commercial disadvantage but a long-term competitive one.
Who is this book written for?
Every Kenyan Christian entrepreneur, business owner, manager, or professional who experiences tension between their faith commitments and the demands of their working environment. It is also ideal for church leaders who work with marketplace Christians and want the most practically grounded resource available.
What is new in the 2nd Edition?
The 2nd Edition includes a brand-new section featuring timeless wisdom from twenty top business leaders including Ken Blanchard (author of The One Minute Manager), updated content addressing current business dilemmas, and expanded application of God’s principles to contemporary leadership challenges.
How does this book differ from a typical Christian devotional?
God Is My CEO is a leadership and business book, not a devotional. Every chapter addresses a specific, practical business dilemma — success, priorities, integrity, courage — and presents documented, real-world evidence for how God’s principles produce the best outcomes in those specific situations.
What other Cliffmatt books pair well with this?
The Purpose Driven Life (Rick Warren) for the foundational purpose framework, In Charge (Myles Munroe) for the Kingdom business leadership theology, and Leaders Eat Last (Sinek) for the secular science that confirms what Julian documents from the faith perspective.
Why Kenyan Christian Business Leaders Are Buying This Book
Kenya’s Christian community is also Kenya’s entrepreneurial community. The specific majority of Kenya’s small and medium business owners, the specific majority of Kenya’s marketplace professionals, and the specific majority of Kenya’s emerging corporate leaders identify as Christian. And every one of them navigates, every working day, the specific tension that God Is My CEO addresses: the specific moment when the world’s business logic and God’s Kingdom logic point in different directions.
Zig Ziglar endorsed the first edition with this: “Larry Julian has written a game plan to help all of us score a touchdown in life.” Publishers Weekly called it “an excellent guidebook to living out one’s faith in a ruthless bottom-line world.” And INC. Magazine said it “will probably spur you to rethink some of the ways in which you do business.” Amazon
At Ksh 100, the book that has reconciled faith and work for a generation of Christian leaders — now available to every Kenyan.
Who This Book Is For:
- Every Kenyan Christian entrepreneur who wants the most practically tested and most credibly endorsed guide to building a God-centred business without sacrificing commercial excellence
- Kenyan corporate professionals and managers who feel the daily tension between their faith and their workplace demands and want the specific framework for navigating it with integrity and confidence
- Kenyan pastors and church leaders who counsel marketplace professionals and want the most practically grounded resource for supporting the specific faith-work integration challenges their congregation faces
- Kenyan business school students and young professionals who want to build their careers on the specific foundation of God’s principles from the beginning rather than correcting a values drift later
- Every reader of In Charge (Myles Munroe), The Purpose Driven Life (Rick Warren), Kingdom Man (Tony Evans), Dare to Lead (Brené Brown), and My Proven Marketing Strategies (Titus Mirieri) who wants the most widely endorsed and most practically structured guide to leading a business by God’s principles to complete their Christian marketplace library
📖 Author: Larry Julian
🏢 Publisher: Adams Media
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