Executive Coaching for
Clergy and Spiritual Leaders

Leading a congregation or faith community isn’t just a job—it’s a calling.

  • You’re walking with people through the most sacred and vulnerable moments of their lives. But who supports you?

  • Who helps you navigate the complexity of ministry, the weight of leadership, and the pressure to be a source of strength and stability?

Executive Coaching offers you a confidential sounding board, a nonjudgmental advisor, and a trusted partner in leadership and ministry.

Try a free, 45-minute session with Josh Thomas focused on your goals and challenges – and see whether Executive Coaching is right for you. 

FR. JOSH THOMAS

Priest, CEO, Executive Coach

20+ years experience as an Episcopal priest, nonprofit leader, and executive coach.

MDiv, Union Theological Seminary
Executive MBA, Quantic School of Business

Board Certified Coach | Certified Executive Coach

Female pastor spiritual leader counseling young adult member

Why Executive Coaching?

Confidential Thought Partner

Share what’s truly on your heart and mind.

Nonjudgmental Sounding Board

Regain perspective when you’re too close to a problem.

Experienced Leadership Advisor

Expand your skillset as you face new challenges.

Expert training.
Practical wisdom.

What is Included?

Executive coaching can address a wide range of areas, including leadership development, communication skills, conflict resolution, decision-making, strategic thinking, emotional intelligence, and work-life balance.

Coaching is tailored to the specific needs of the client.

Avoid burning out

Manage emotional exhaustion from juggling urgent needs and holding others’ pain and hope. Find your unique approach to sustaining health and wellness.

Lead through conflict

Balance the complex needs of diverse, struggling, or divided faith communities. Learn techniques to heal trauma and constructively address conflict.

Sustain your vocation

Stay connected to your deepest “why,” while navigating the gap between your ideal vision and the messy, often lonely reality of day-to-day ministry.

Keep the faith

Stay centered in your strengths and authenticity while grappling with self-doubt, imposter syndrome, and the pressure to have all the answers.

Manage the business

Develop skills and confidence in budgeting, HR, facilities, investments, operational systems and the high-stakes practical decisions of running a nonprofit.

Drive transformative growth

Rally your people around a hopeful, growth-oriented strategy in the midst of rapid change – within faith communities and in the world.

The Coaching Process

1/ Assessment

Through a research-based assessment tool and honest conversation, we’ll clarify your current challenges and leadership strengths.

  • Where are you struggling?

  • Where are you thriving?

  • And why?

2/ Discernment

Together, we’ll identify 2-3 high-impact goals that align with your calling.

Leadership development works best when we focus on a few small changes at a time. We’ll prioritize the ones that will make the biggest difference to you – personally and professionally.

3/ Growth

During weekly sessions, we’ll talk through your most important priorities – addressing both long term goals and the daily challenges of your ministry.

In this back-and-forth between immediate and big-picture concerns, we’ll deepen your leadership capabilities and make progress toward your goals.

Every spiritual leader needs a coach.

The work is too important, too complex, and too demanding to try and go it alone.

— Josh Thomas

Logistics & Cost

  • Coaching is new for many people, but it’s really just a confidential space to work through your biggest goals and challenges – without pressure or judgment. The focus is on you and the kind of leader you hope to be. I’ll support you, challenge you, and help you grow in your skills and confidence.

    During this first session, we’ll spend about an hour focused on your journey, hopes, and struggles. We’ll talk about where you’re thriving and what’s challenging you right now. And we’ll discuss how coaching can help support you.

    If we mutually agree it’s a good fit, we’ll discuss the details of a 90-day coaching engagement.

  • Over the course of about three months, we’ll meet for one hour every week virtually via Zoom. We start with some personality assessments, move to goal setting, and then work through specific leadership challenges in your daily ministry. We move back and forth between big picture and urgent needs, as you develop new skills, perspectives, and confidence.. Through it all, the focus is on you as a leader – what sustains you in your vocation, ways to build on your strengths, and how to help you thrive, personally and professionally.

  • We offer sliding scale pricing to meet the needs of clergy and spiritual leaders from different contexts. Our goal is for coaching to be affordable and accessible to everyone.

    The sliding scale investment for the 90-day program ranges from $1,000 to $5,000, with most clients choosing an amount near the midpoint of $2,500.