Explorer's Guide: Starting Your College Journey with a Sense of Purpose

Bill Millard is the founding theorist and Executive Director of the Center for Life Calling and Leadership at Indiana Wesleyan University. This Center enables students to find an overriding purpose for their lives, equips them to make life decisions based on this purpose, and empowers them to develop this purpose into world changing leadership. In addition to Explorer's Guide: Starting Your College Journey with a Sense of Purpose, Bill is also the author of Devotional Guide: Inspiring Your College Journey with a Sense of Purpose, both published by Kendall/Hunt Publishing.

He brings together nearly three decades of research, experience and application as a life explorer and leading theorist in calling and purpose that has helped people discover the components that go into a sense of calling and develop the tools for unleashing the power of purpose in their lives. Bill is also the creator of the Intrinsic Motivation Assessment Guide & Evaluation (IMAGE), an assessment tool that has guided thousands of people on their unique journeys through life, providing a service compass to pilot individuals toward goals that fulfill them in response to people, opportunities and problems in the world, and to help people map out roles to adopt as they interact with others and gain a greater understanding of themselves.

Bill is also a Professor of Leadership Studies at IWU chairing the undergraduate program. He was also one of the chief to developers of IWU?s doctoral program in leadership. Bill also has served as an advisor to businesses and nonprofit organizations in the area of leadership assessment, organizational mobilization, strategic planning, and change implementation. He has extensive professional experience in the corporate and nonprofit sectors as well as in church and education sectors. Bill earned his doctorate in Organizational Leadership from Pepperdine University. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in History, Greek, and Pre-Law and also earned graduate degrees in secondary education, religion, and in geology.

Bill was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, but lived the majority of his life in California. His wife Anita is a registered nurse working in hospice, and they now live in Indiana. Bill is an avid adventurer who has explored all fifty states and four different continents, climbing mountains, rafting whitewater rivers, hiking through dense jungles, enduring scorching deserts and investigating geological, archeological and other natural wonders of the world.