Diocese of Phoenix Announces TLI’s Inaugural Graduating Class

PHOENIX (June 18, 2018) — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix is pleased to announce the Tepeyac Leadership Initiative (TLI) 2018 Graduate Class. Thirty-four Catholic professionals are graduating June 20 as part of TLI’s first cohort, representing a wide range of fields, including the corporate, nonprofit, education, health, finance, and legal.

TLI is a five-month program, comprised of 20 weekly sessions that bring together professional development and growth in faith.

“TLI fulfils the need felt by many Catholics to find meaning and purpose in their careers and personal lives. It will help professionals from all walks of life to understand better who they are, so that they can discover, through prayerful discernment, God’s mission for their lives,” said the Most Rev. Thomas J. Olmsted, Bishop of the Diocese of Phoenix. “It is our prayer that the Holy Spirit will place in the hearts of participants a mission of leadership that they will gladly embrace and fulfil through God’s grace.”

According to Bishop Olmsted, “the true call of the laity, the authentic vocation of lay Catholic men and women, is to be ambassadors of Christ in the world, living among everyone else in secular society, while striving for holiness, sanctifying the world.”

In TLI, the Diocese of Phoenix has invited and invested in Catholic professionals to prepare for a mission in leadership — through an encounter with goodness, truth and beauty — in a first-of-a-kind leadership development program. TLI has equipped graduates to build a community in which people can flourish and the common good be advanced.

The members of the TLI 2018 Graduate Class are: