For denominational leaders
Keep your pastors by fixing what wears them down.
Most pastor care reaches a pastor after the crisis. We help denominations measure well-being across the whole system, find the root causes, and make changes that last.
Trusted by denominations internationally
The problem
Why pastor care programs see so little use
Denominations care about their pastors. But most support is built to respond to a crisis, not to prevent one.
It arrives too late
Help usually comes after a pastor is already in trouble. By then, many have quietly decided to leave.
It treats a system problem as a personal one
Self-care advice cannot fix workloads, expectations and structures that wear pastors down.
Leaders cannot see the pattern
Without data, the first sign of a problem is often a resignation letter.
“Stabilization is not improvement. When the crisis fades, the urgency fades with it, and the system that caused it stays the same.”
Our approach
Measure. Mobilize. Maintain.
A structured change process, grounded in organizational psychology and your own pastors' data.
Measure
- Every pastor takes the Pastor Well-Being Checkup: 22 measures, seven of them focused on the system itself, from workload to fairness in decisions
- Each pastor receives private personal results, with a free Pastor Well-Being app coming soon
- Leadership receives an aggregate report showing patterns across the system
Mobilize
- A debrief with your leadership team on what the data shows
- A guiding team formed to act on the root causes
- Training for leaders who support pastors day to day
Maintain
- Re-checks every six months
- A trend report that shows whether changes are working
- Adjustments while the improvement is still taking hold
The first step
Start with a Checkup Pilot
See what the process reveals in one part of your denomination before committing to more.
Pricing and timing are shared on your strategy call.
A pilot includes
- The Checkup for one district or division of 25 to 50 pastors
- Private personal results for every participating pastor
- An aggregate report for your leadership
- A results debrief with your leadership team
- One training session for your leaders
Trust and privacy
What leaders see, and what stays private
Pastors answer honestly only when they know their answers are safe. The Checkup is built so that both sides can trust it.
Leaders see
- Patterns across groups of pastors
- Where the system creates the most strain
- Change over time from one check to the next
Pastors keep private
- Their individual answers
- Their personal results
- Anything that could identify them individually
More ways we help
Support for the leaders who support pastors
Organizational consulting
Strategy for pastor support, from policy and structure to the expectations placed on pastors.
Leadership development
360-degree feedback that helps leaders see how they are experienced by the pastors they oversee.
Executive coaching
One-on-one coaching for denominational leaders carrying the weight of many congregations.
Speaking and workshops
Keynotes, cabinet briefings and day-long workshops for leadership teams.
See speaking topics →“By far the best speaker we have had in more than 10 years of planning conferences.”
A denominational leader, after a three-day leadership conference
Talk it through in 30 minutes
Tell us what you are seeing among your pastors. You will leave the call with a clearer picture of the root causes and your options, whether or not we work together.