You are the right leader in the right place. Right now.

A Mission Brief. In conversation, in person or on Zoom, or on your own time.

Six sections: who you are, who you serve, how you sound, what you value, what you’ve actually got to work with, and what brought you here. I take it from there and send back a report — your organization described in its own language, with one next choice sized to the capacity you named. I read every line before it leaves my desk.

In conversation is the version I point people toward. Sixty to ninety minutes, in person or on Zoom. You talk, I ask the next question, and the Brief gets built out of what you actually said. I am hearing your tone, catching what you hesitate over, and reading the energy behind an answer as much as the answer itself. Before we meet you’ll receive a list of the figures and documents to gather. Have them in hand when we start; sessions run long when numbers have to be hunted down mid-conversation.

On your own is a form you fill out on your schedule: typed at midnight, dictated in the car, spread across a week. Your work saves as you go and a link comes to your inbox so you can pick it back up. Real work comes back either way. The conversation reaches further, because I can follow what you did not plan to say.

Hand the same six sections to your board chair and you’ll learn a second thing: whether the two of you are describing the same organization.

Leading something larger than one congregation? I have scaled the Front Porch for regional ministers, judicatories, and organizations that carry other organizations. Same six sections, built for a body rather than a building.

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Two halves: a deeper Mission Brief with you, then half a day with your organization. In person or on Zoom.

The first half builds on the Mission Brief with you, going deeper than the one you have already filled out: your vision, what breaks your heart, what you are building toward. That part is yours alone and we build the first half together. We’ll also work on organizational history, your read and interpretation of strengths and challenges, and what you’ve learned about yourself during your time in ministry with your organization.

The second is half a day with your organization, in person or on Zoom, with the people you name in the room. They say what they hear, what they want, and what they are afraid of. Both readings go on the table together, which is the only way to find out whether you and your place are building the same thing.

Both halves come with a list of what to gather beforehand. Have it in hand when we start.

Within five business days, you receive a Threshold Finding and three recommendations built for your actual context, along with AI tools to support the recommendations. For many organizations this is the whole engagement. A previously purchased Front Porch credits in full toward it.

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Ninety days · One-to-one · Integrity Audit → Clarity Analysis → Alignment Arc

The Front Porch reads you and your organization from where you stand. The Threshold Session puts the two of you in the room together. The Living Space widens the circle once more, to everyone your organization touches and everyone with a claim on it.

Built for organizations that carry other organizations, or that answer to a constituency wider than their own membership: regions, judicatories, foundations, nonprofits with staff and sites. Your board has a read, your staff has a read, your wider community has a read, and the ninety days weigh all of them against your vision. If you are stuck, or meeting discouraging pushback or demoralizing friction, the ninety days will tell you why.

Days 1–30, the Integrity Audit. A comprehensive gathering, and the part that takes real time. Board, staff, partners, funders, the people you serve, and the community your work sits inside — interviews, documents, budgets, and the record of what your organization has actually done. All of it read against the five diagnostics: what you have, what’s in the way, what shaped you, what breaks your heart, and what you’re building toward. You receive five working memos plus a synthesis, in language that’s actually yours.

Days 31–60, the Clarity Analysis. Why the distance exists. The history, incentives, and unexamined assumptions that let practice drift from values — in your organization, in your own leadership of it, and in the relationships your organization depends on to do its work.

Days 61–90, the Alignment Arc. The plan for closing it: specific next steps with budget implications, a governance structure, and where it matters, how you’ll use AI and where you won’t.

My deliverable is clarity: the honest picture, the roadmap, and connections to the practitioners who should carry pieces of it forward. The implementation stays yours.

A previously purchased Threshold Session credits in full toward it.

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Ongoing, one-to-one, on a rhythm you set.

Some of what is in your way is you. A conversation you keep not having. A piece of the work you quietly handed off because it costs you something to hold. A story about your own capacity that you stopped examining years ago.

This is regular time to look at that with me — someone who has no stake in how you appear. There is no report and no one else in the room. We meet as long as it is useful to you and stop when it isn’t.

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A project engagement, sized to what you are carrying.

Your organization read against your vision. We’ll identify where fortification is needed, where excess is dragging you down, where a little agility would build momentum towards your dream — or tackle the problem of your choice.

I’ll name each problem specifically and help you to see how both your strengths and challenges can shape a way forward for the mutual benefit of both you and your organization.

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A campaign, built and written with you.

Your vision needs resources behind it. I help you articulate one specific way it is embodied in your organization’s work, and then build a campaign your people can answer.

I write the case, the asks, and the materials, and I build the arc across the season. What people are invited to fund is the vision, in the terms you have named.

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Consultation, policy work, or a workshop.

AI is arriving in your sector whether or not you have a position on it, and the pressures it amplifies are the ones your organization already carries.

I work with leaders and teams on what to adopt, what to refuse, and how to write a policy your people can actually follow. The four questions I run every tool through are the four I hand you, so the next decision doesn’t need me in the room.

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Boards, staff teams, judicatories, and conferences.

In-person workshops and keynotes, with practical takeaways your team can use the next morning. I speak on leading change without wrecking trust, on what it means to be the right leader for a place, and on my specialty: the critical engagement of AI by values-driven organizations.

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I offer an occasional hour-long workshop to equip pastors in using Claude, primarily by demonstrating the use of three skills. The skills arrive when you register, and you can buy them without the workshop. All of the skills I teach in the workshop are available for purchase individually or packaged in threes.

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Some situations come before the packages: a merger that needs one voice, a conversation you want rehearsed before you walk into it, a read you want tested by someone standing outside it.

Describe what you’re facing, and I will tell you plainly whether this work fits, and where to start if it does.

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