ENHANCING HUMAN CAPITAL FLOURISHING IN C12: THE BRIDGE MODEL

This Capstone project addresses the persistent gap between personal spiritual formation and its observable impact on organizational culture and performance in faith-driven leadership contexts. While Christian CEOs often invest deeply in spiritual disciplines and values, there is limited clarity about how such formation translates into the flourishing of human capital within complex, multi-faith workplace environments. The guiding research question asks how Christian spiritual formation and leadership virtues can be translated into inclusive, ethically appropriate indicators of human-capital flourishing that meaningfully inform organizational outcomes. In response, the project develops a three-tiered conceptual “Bridge Model” that integrates personal formation, virtue-based human-capital indicators, and organizational performance metrics, drawing on existing C12 tools, including the Balanced Wheel and the Five-Point Alignment Matrix. The model emphasizes purpose, trust, empowerment, and collaboration as the key human-capital conditions that link inner transformation to external outcomes. The significance of this study lies in its ability to provide C12 Chairs and Christian CEOs with a coherent framework for stewarding people development without imposing faith-specific language on diverse employee populations. By employing inclusive measurement language grounded in biblical virtue ethics, the project demonstrates how faith-informed leadership can promote trust, dignity, and flourishing in multi-faith workplaces. The expected contribution is a practical, theologically grounded framework that enhances coaching practice, deepens leadership self-understanding, and offers a replicable approach to measuring what truly matters in organizational life.