Education

Wilsey Family College Professor, Department of Theology; Faculty Director, Moreau Program, University of Notre Dame

William Mattison, III^’89

“Leaders have the wisdom to see accurately the way things are, especially regarding the particularities of their arena of leadership (e.g., nation, company, organization, family) within the broader context. They identify and articulate practical goals for the group that enable it to thrive. They both witness these goals in action, and galvanize the group to adopt and live out these goals in a manner attuned to the particulars of all members. ”

Biography

Bill Mattison is the Wilsey Family College Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, where he has served the past ten years as a scholar, administrator, and teacher of students ranging from undergraduates to seminarians to doctoral students. He is also the Faculty Director of the Moreau Program, an anchor of a Notre Dame undergraduate education that reaches all students. His area of expertise is virtue and moral theology, and he has written or edited over a dozen books including the recent Growing in Virtue: Aquinas on Habit (Georgetown Press, 2023) and Follow Me: Walking with Jesus Through the Gospels (Emmaus Road, 2023). He and his wife Courtney have two sons, Billy and Jack.

Positions

- Wilsey Family College Professor, Department of Theology; Faculty Director, Moreau Program, University of Notre Dame

Leadership as Vision: Lessons from Christ

May 1st
2026

1:30 pm -
2:45 pm, EST

Rooms 101/103

Talk

Religion/Faith

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Introduction

This talk offers an account of leadership centered on various components of vision. That account is not dependent on a faith perspective, but the talk devotes extensive attention to what this looks like in the context of Catholic faith.