The Academy of Artful Leadership helps gifted leaders continue to grow through hosted conversations around key themes in ministry, peer learning, and individual coaching. The outcome is greater clarity and calculated movement toward transformational congregational leadership.

The Academy utilizes a “coach approach” process, which means that instead of relying on instruction from a teacher or prescriptions from a consultant, a coach helps to mine the expertise and internal wisdom of congregational leaders. This “coach approach” process helps leaders discern the God-sized things that need to happen, develop a plan to get there, and celebrate with them when they do.

Topics Covered

• Spiritual Leadership — How to remain a life-giving adaptive and spiritual leader.
• Adaptive Leadership — Best practices for connecting with the mission field around you.
• The Importance of Vision and the Power of Smart Goals — The power of setting SMART goals for ministry.
• Disruption as Holy Opportunity — What needs to be honored, and what needs to be disrupted for the sake of the Kingdom?
• Enhancing Small Group Ministry — Why leaders should be starting new small groups continuously.
• Empowering Lay Leadership — Tools for developing lay leadership.
• Fresh Expressions of Worship — What one change would increase the vitality of your worship?
• The Coach Approach to Ministry — How to utilize the “coach approach” in ministry.

REGISTRATION IS LIMITED TO EIGHT PEOPLE

Once the group is full, you will have the opportunity to sign up on a wait list. We will open a second group if needed.

Greetings! I am Joanna Hollis, and I am a priest and a Coach in the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey. I am a mother to one, a partner to one, a runner, singer, creator in the yarn arts and lover of all things Divine Feminine.  I offer my clients a loving, nonjudgmental and compassionate space to tap into their truth and find clarity in all aspects their lives.  I believe that my clients, in their deep knowing, already have the answers they seek and that they can come to those answers with gentle guidance and honest conversations.  I work with both groups and individuals and help my clients take actions towards their goals.

Rev. Chris Holmes, PCC,  has been coaching church leaders across many denominations since 2008, with over 1000 hours coaching laity, clergy, denominational leaders and bishops. In the United Methodist Church he leads the coaching team working with new district superintendents and directors of connectional ministry, as well as several conference leadership cabinets.

Chris authored, along with George Howard, the Coach Approach Skill Training (CAST) for ministry, which is an approved training program of the International Coach Federation. CAST has now trained over 1000 church leaders in the basic and advanced skills of coaching for ministry. He also is co-creator and faculty for Auburn Seminary’s coach training and author of The Art of Coaching Clergy, as well as many articles on coaching.

As a founding member of the Maryland Chapter of the International Coach Federation, Chris served as President from 2012-2014. Prior to coaching, he pastored churches for 26 years and served as District Superintendent of the Annapolis District in the Baltimore-Washington Conference. Chris and Margaret have been married for over 35 years, have three grown children. Chris is an accomplished watercolor artist.