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Sixty minutes, no charge, no pitch. You tell me what you are seeing and what you wish was different. I tell you honestly whether I am the right person for it.
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I help not-for-profit leaders, boards and churches get crystal clear on where they are heading, build the health underneath it, and turn that into results you can measure. Consulting, training and coaching since 1993.
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Most organisations don't stall because people stopped caring.
They stall because the direction went fuzzy, the structure never caught up with the growth, and everybody is too deep in the day to day to see it.
You can usually feel it before you can name it. Meetings go around in circles. The board asks good questions nobody can answer. Cash is tighter than it should be for the work you are doing. Good people are tired.
That is the point where an outside read is worth more than another internal workshop. Not to tell you what you already know, but to find the root cause, name it plainly, and give you the next steps that actually move it.
How I can help you
Consulting and coaching are very different processes, and treating one like the other is why people get poor results from both. Clients often get good recommendations from a consultant, then need ongoing coaching to actually implement them.
A diagnosis, then a course of action.
I look at the dynamics and the root organisational causes, from outside the internal politics, and hand you a plan you can actually run. Boards, governance, structure, finances, risk.
- An objective read on what is actually going on
- Board and governance structure
- Reporting and financial processes
- Medium-term risks nobody inside has named yet
- A written course of action, in phases
Sessions that build the skill, not just the plan.
On-site work with the people who have to carry it. CEO, staff, board and volunteers in the same room, working on the same thing, leaving with the same picture.
- Leadership effectiveness
- Change management effectiveness
- Communication effectiveness
- Problem solving and decision making
- Team building
Support, encouragement and accountability.
I walk the steps with you and clarify them as we go. Most leaders do not need another report, they need someone in their corner who has done it before.
- One to one, or with your leadership team
- Emotional intelligence strengthening
- Goal setting and follow through
- Listening effectiveness
- Mentoring through a change or a hard season
How it usually goes.
A written proposal
Every project is different, so fees are set after that first meeting and laid out in short phases. You get accurate estimates rather than a number pulled from a rate card.
The work, then the handover
Assessment by phone and email, or a full on-site visit, depending on what the issue demands. The goal is that your team can run the next one without me.
The point is what changes afterwards.
Real numbers from real engagements.
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Annual revenue in a child care division, up from $3.8m in 18 months. The foundations built then went on to produce $35m.
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Second school campus secured while chairing the board, alongside record surpluses and debt reduction.
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Ahead of schedule on the contract goals for a Switzerland based education business, with cash flow re-established.
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Working with boards, churches and not-for-profits since. Church planting, operations, micro finance, bible colleges.
What people say afterwards.
Church Health, specifically.
A lot of my time goes to helping pastors, boards and churches be stronger, so they can help more people, and in better ways. Healthy churches are the thing I keep coming back to.
That means the unglamorous parts as often as the visionary ones. Governance that holds. Reporting a board can read. Structure that fits the size you are now rather than the size you were. Money that lasts past the current season. And a leader who is not carrying all of it alone.
Talk about your churchI think out loud in two places.
If you want to know how I approach this before you call, start here.
The Flourishing Life
The Flourishing Life
Long-form conversations with leaders about what they have actually learned, and the tools you can use to build your own flourishing life.
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The Leadership Anvil
A space for forging deep thought, wise practice, and the slow craft of Spirit-empowered leadership formation.
- Staying in the Zone Where Obedience Makes Sense On how relationship shapes what we can hear
- The Australian Public Is Not Stupid On the language we use about ordinary people
- Notes from London 2026 Leadership, ministry and the long view
- Be a "Good Hang" The overlooked leadership skill nobody teaches
- What Are You Craving? The spiritual power of rightly ordered affections
FAQs
Every project is different, and every client has their own goals and requirements, so I do not publish a rate card. Fees are set after an initial meeting and presented in a short-term phased approach, which means estimates get more accurate as we go rather than being guessed at the start.
Some areas of evaluation are far more involved than others. An organisation might need a simple assessment handled by phone and email. Or the issues might demand a comprehensive on-site visit. Those are not the same job and should not cost the same.
Because the staff time to develop a new program is usually prohibitive when day-to-day operations already need everyone's full attention. I can give it my full attention, and bring new insight and clear direction with it.
The other reason is objectivity. Working out what would make a constructive difference in your organisation usually requires a third-party read on the dynamics and the root causes. That is very hard to do from the inside, no matter how capable your people are.
They get treated as the same thing constantly, and they are not. Consulting diagnoses the problems facing an organisation or its leader and recommends a course of action. A consultant brings expertise from outside to the decision makers, and helps break out of the traps of mediocrity.
Coaching provides support, encouragement and accountability while you accomplish the goal. The coach walks you through the steps, clarifying and affirming along the way. A coach does not have to be the expert, they have to be skilled at helping others perform.
Understanding the difference matters, because you will get poor results from either one if it is mistakenly treated as the other. In practice they go hand in hand. Clients frequently get good recommendations from a consultant, then need ongoing coaching to implement them.
No. Church Health is a genuine passion and a big part of the work, but the same organisational problems show up across the whole not-for-profit sector and in commercial businesses too.
Sectors I have worked in include child care, aged care, schools, tertiary education, community services, youth development, micro finance, drug rehabilitation, sport and recreation, financial counselling, financial literacy and youth housing.
We talk about where you are, what you are seeing, and the "more" you are looking for. I ask a lot of questions. You get an honest read on whether the thing you are worried about is the actual problem.
There is no obligation at the end of it, and no pressure. You decide what is next.
Let's talk about the "more" you are looking for.
We are all on a journey, and it is good to know we are doing well and heading in the right direction. Start with a free 60 minute conversation, then decide what is next.