I’ve been helping organizations adapt their mindset and process for realizing revenue and growth goals for 35 years.
Whether I served in executive leadership, consulting or coaching capacities my responsibilities always focused on assessing, defining and implementing strategies that met the financial and missional goals of my employers and clients. My affinity for strategic planning, process management, and staff skill development have always been strategic partners in that work.
More importantly, my successes came from my passion for cultivating meaningful value-added relationships that served the best interest of the other. From the secular perspective that disposition embodies the practice of servant leadership. From the perspective of faith it embodies the practice of stewardship. When wrapped in the pastoral arms of intentional conversation it provides a framework from which to engage in deep conversations that connect an institution’s mission, programming and capacity to affect change with an individual’s sense of purpose, core motivations and desire for change. It is within that framework that I have worked with organizations to unify leadership and staff level practices and skills to achieve financial and institutional vitality.
In 2009, after spending 30 years looking for the meaning of faith in various spiritual pursuits, I found the Episcopal Church. It was in that tradition that I found a spiritual home that welcomed my ecumenical and inter-religious frame of mind. It was also the place where I discovered that my for-profit skills and experience were both transferable and valuable in helping faith communities reach their funding and missional goals.
Inspired I chose to interrupt my consulting practice in 2012 and enrolled in The Graduate Theological Union to pursue an M.A. in Practical Theology. As a person of faith that choice was a clear call to mission. As a lay professional, it was an opportunity to integrate theology and theological practices with business theory and proven best practices in a way that would equip lay professionals to live their faith more fully in the workplace. It was also a way for me to develop programming that would serve faith communities. Within that context, my academic areas of emphasis included stewardship theology, pastoral theology, lay leadership development, and creating relational cultures built on advocacy.
In 2017, I made the decision to work solely with religious institutions and mission-driven non-profits that were committed to making a difference in the personal, professional and spiritual lives of those they serve. That commitment remains true for me today.
At this stage of my career I view my personal and professional lives as mission-driven and spiritually motivated, and I will continue to engage organizations whose mission and funding needs are in alignment with my professional skill set and personal desire to affect change in the lives of those I work with every day.