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RunFree.Co delivers a strategic season of executive coaching, ministry design and visionary planning to church teams called the "Pivvot Process"

It's time to stop the chase for church attenders in "program church" and to run free into what Jesus started. Based on the celebrated methodologies of "Vision Framing," RunFree.Co is my next venture. It's all about activating the real disciple-making potential of the local church.

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The Vision Frame Cheat Sheet is my gift to you as I cover the 5 Linchpin Practices of Future Church Vision Framing in my Instagram Reel Series at Will_Be_Clear. Download it today for the definitions, metaphors, and key insights on how to lead with compelling clarity. There are five irreducible questions of leadership. Have you answered them?

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4 Kinds of Vision Idolatry

I often remind people that I was a spiritual formation pastor before I starting coaching leaders around clarity and vision. This often flavors how I see the world. Even though I have committed my life [...]

Nov 19, 2010

The Vision Frame of the RightNow Organization

Today and tomorrow, I am in Dallas for the RightNow Conference. Today was a fantastic experience. Follow the tweets tomorrow at #RN10 or if you live the Dallas-Forth Worth area swing on by Irving [...]

Nov 12, 2010

People are Talking about the Field Manual for Missional Vision

I ran into Marian Liautaud with Christianity Today last week. She made the remark, "Gosh it seems like Church Unique is staying active as a book." She meant it as a compliment which I gladly received. [...]

Nov 11, 2010

FREE Chapter From Sam Chand's New Book on Church Vision and Culture

Sam Chand is one of the few thought leaders today that discusses the relationship between culture and vision in the church. His new book is entitled, Cracking Your Church's Culture Code, Seven Keys to [...]

Nov 6, 2010

41 Thoughts on Living with Clarity

Last year on my birthday, I tweeted 40 thoughts on clarity. I thought it would be a good excuse to send more tweets than usual in a day. Since I never included them in a blog post, here they are, a [...]

Nov 5, 2010

Tyranny of More: 6 Common Myths that Drive Churches to Do Too Much

Tyranny is a good word to capture the dominance that myths can have over our mind. It's so easy in ministry to do the wrong things for the right reasons. Imagine that- totally pure motives, great [...]

Nov 3, 2010

About Will

Would you like to fall in love with ministry again?

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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