Twelve sessions, built for the Lead Pastor's world.
A dynamic balance of unpacking and workshopping proven tools with 6–8 other Lead Pastors — two hours, once a month, on Google Meet.
Shepherd Leader and Enterprise Leader
Balance the never-ending tension that Lead Pastors uniquely face.
Strategy 101
Build the independent yet interconnected skills of strategic thinking, planning, and execution.
Five Tasks of a Lead Pastor
The core, non-negotiable, highest-leverage things only you can do.
Flourishing
How do you live the John 10:10 life Jesus promised — for you, too, not just your church?
Managing Me: Leadership Operating System
Leadership energy and attention, required of you in five directions at once.
Building a Team
Recruiting, hiring, training, and re-recruiting your staff, elders, and key volunteers — with excellence.
Managing a Team
Productive meetings, performance feedback, firing a team member, managing high performers.
Leading a Team
Right people, right seats, right work — and the three stages of leadership team growth.
Multiplying Leadership
Delegating responsibility and authority across three types of leaders and moments.
Seven Tensions of a Lead Pastor
Not something to be solved — something to be managed.
Accountability in Real Life
How do you serve for the long haul while leading a family and not blowing up your life?
Radical Stewardship
God owns it all — transfer and multiply what He has entrusted to you.
One-to-one coaching, tailored to your leadership context.
The monthly sessions build the shared toolkit. Your quarterly 1-1 with Phil is where it gets applied to the specific situation you're facing right now — like these, navigated by pastors before you.
- Going from one to two Sunday services
- Launching a capital campaign and building project
- Developing a staff hiring roadmap for the next 24 months
- Redesigning the practical elements of the Elder team's function alongside the Lead Pastor
- Re-envisioning the next 5-year direction for the church
- Re-designing the Lead Pastor's job description and focus to suit a church of 500, not 150
- Transitioning a beloved but struggling Associate Pastor into a counseling role
- Managing profound emotional depletion and high daily anxiety caused by a perfect storm of simultaneous crises
- Structuring and executing a Sabbatical for maximum rest and rejuvenation
- Designing a robust hiring process and making 3 key hires over 6 months
- Helping the current Lead Pastor navigate an “overreaching” Founding/Former Lead Pastor who's still on staff
- Equipping the Lead Pastor to navigate a highly sensitive personnel issue with the Elder team and Staff team
