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Play: Embrace the wisdom of your inner childEssentialists challenge the Nonessential logic that play is trivial. Instead, they celebrate play as a vital driver of creativity and exploration.The [...]
Play: Embrace the wisdom of your inner childEssentialists challenge the Nonessential logic that play is trivial. Instead, they celebrate play as a vital driver of creativity and exploration.The [...]
Eliminate: How Can We Cut Out the Trivial Many?It’s not enough to simply determine which activities and efforts don’t make the best possible contribution; you still have to actively eliminate those [...]
Edit: The invisible artBecoming an Essentialist means making cutting, condensing, and correcting a natural part of our daily routine – making editing a natural cadence in our lives.The [...]
Execute: How Can We Make Doing the Vital Few Things Almost Effortless?Essentialists invest the time they have saved by eliminating the nonessentials into designing a system to make execution look [...]
Do you like to think ahead as a church leader? Would you enjoy an online resource with a special focus on articulating and advancing your unique vision?That's what the VisionRoom is all about. And [...]
Focus: What’s important now?Essentialists don’t diffuse their efforts with distractions, applying their full energy to the job at hand.The Nonessentialist: [...]
I want you and your ministry to experience the benefits of stunning, God-given clarity. As a pastor turned vision coach, I’ve worked with an unprecedented variety of churches from growing mega-churches and missional communities, to mainline revitalization and church plants. I started several interconnected organizations that help the church embody the movement that Jesus founded. My visionary planning tools, the Vision Frame and the Horizon Storyline are used by thousands of churches every year through my calling to raise up other consultants and trainers. In 2004, I founded Auxano, which I sold to LifeWay and continued to lead until 2020. In 2014, I created Younique to deliver gospel-centered life design through the church. It is now the world's only comprehensive, open-source life plan system.
In 2023, I founded Run Free as my official team-based consulting shop. We deliver the most innovative Vision Framing experiences available to church teams through the "Pivvot Process" and to network/denominational leaders through the "Denominee Process." We also offer team coaching to church leaders using the "Performance Practices" of meta-performance executive coaching.
I've written seven books: Future Church, Church Unique, Younique, Clarity Spiral, God Dreams, Innovating Discipleship, and Building Leaders. I enjoy speaking about clarity, calling, disciple-making, and vision. It's all about helping one another do more than we can imagine. I co-locate in Houston and Chile with my wife, Romy, and the last of my four children, Poema.
If you are interested in Run Free's consulting offerings or want to discuss getting a LifePlan, just reach out to set up a conversation.
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