Meet Nick WaltersWhere business leadership meets history
Entrepreneur, public-sector leader, and history professor — Nick merges practical business and leadership principles with lessons drawn from history.
History as a Leadership Laboratory
Nick Walters brings together a combination of experiences that makes his approach to leadership different. He has spent years as an entrepreneur and public-sector leader, while also teaching college-level history at Mississippi Christian University. That background allows him to do something unusual: merge practical business and leadership principles with lessons drawn from history.
Rather than treating history as simply something to study, Nick uses it as a leadership laboratory. The decisions, successes, failures, personalities, and challenges of the past become case studies for leaders dealing with many of the same issues today—building teams, navigating change, making decisions with incomplete information, communicating a vision, resolving conflict, and leading when there is no clear roadmap.
That approach is the foundation of Nick's Finding Your Way program, launching with its first major focus: leadership lessons from the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Leadership in Practice
Presidential Appointee
Appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as USDA Rural Development State Director for Mississippi.
Center for Christian History
Founder and director of the Center for Christian History, where he hosts the podcast This Week in Christian History.
History Professor
Teaches college-level history at Mississippi Christian University.
Seventh-Generation Mississippian
A seventh-generation Mississippian from Wiggins, Nick holds bachelor's and master's degrees in history from Mississippi College. He and his wife, Lisa, live and worship in Ridgeland, Mississippi and have three adult children and a daughter-in-law.