I’m available to speak at your conference, leadership or staff gathering on a variety of topics related to leadership, ministry strategy, social media and building volunteer and staff teams. In the past, I’ve had opportunities to speak at events hosted by organizations like the Willow Creek Association, Saddleback Church, ChurchPlanters.com, WiredChurches.com and various church and denomination gatherings.

Contact me about your event or if you’re interested in learning more.

Sample Topics

• Finding Your Focus — Whether you know it or not, your church is probably bowing down to the perceived power of the “giant inflatable blue monkey.” It’s impacting how you define and communicate your discipleship strategy. It’s impacting how you promote what’s happening at your church. And, it’s impeding your ability to help people take their next steps toward Christ. I will help you discover a few simple strategies to deflate the giant blue monkeys lurking in your ministry.
• Leading Your Team — Based on my recent book, Killing Cockroaches, I will both inspire and challenge leaders to consider a new approach for building your team and empowering leaders. This session will touch on your obedience, calling and influence. I will offer insights from my experiences in ministry, the marketplace and Scripture, to stretch how you look at leadership. Why keep “killing cockroaches,” forever bogged down in the mundane and small details, when you could be making a big impact with your leadership and life?
• Simply Strategic Volunteers — In case you haven’t figured it out, you’ll never have enough money to hire enough staff to accomplish your ministry vision. The only way it’ll happen is if you engage volunteers. I will share 10 simple strategies to connect people in serving opportunities at your church. These proven principles will help you grow the impact of your ministry while reducing the need to hire staff.
• How to Get Unstuck: Turning Vision into Reality – Feeling stuck as a leader? Do you feel like your church’s ministry has stalled? Consider a football coach who wants to turn his team around. He develops an offensive and defensive system built around coaches, players, strategies and plays to make it happen. The coach develops the system and then practices it daily with the hopes that it’ll lead to victory. Whether it’s discipleship, volunteer connections, family ministry or any other aspect of ministry, the systems we develop will ultimately determine the church we become and the life change that does or doesn’t occur. Maybe it’s time you got unstuck.

Don’t see the topic that fits? No worries. I’ll shape a talk to address your audience’s specific needs.