Leading in Every Direction: Multiplying impact through 360° of Influence
Leadership influence extends far beyond direct reports- it reaches upward to senior leaders, across to peers, and throughout the organization. In this session, we’ll define what it means to lead with 360° influence and explore practical ways to leverage your role as a supervisor, collaborator, and trusted partner to navigate relational dynamics, strengthen culture, and multiply leadership impact at every level.with Sonja Waltman
The Empathy Lens Every Leader Needs
Every leader feels the tension. You want your team aligned, healthy, and moving in the same direction and you want your people to step in, serve, and engage your church’s mission in meaningful ways. Too often we treat those as strategy or motivation issues when underneath them is something deeper, EMPATHY. We'll explore it looks like to lead with empathy in two critical directions, understanding the seasons your staff team is walking through and the desire and friction your people are navigating every day. You will walk away with practical tools to move your team toward greater clarity, health, and alignment.
with Lee Coate
Leadership Development: Your Church’s Most Untapped Growth Strategy
If you’ve felt the strain of rapid expansion, volunteer shortages, staff burnout, or ministries that rely too heavily on a few key people, know there's a better way. Learn how to build a culture of leadership development that forms spiritually mature, emotionally healthy, mission aligned leaders at every level—staff and lay. By identifying emerging leaders, creating clear development pathways, and establishing coaching rhythms that strengthen your teams, you’ll walk away with a clear vision, a practical roadmap, and the confidence to build a leadership pipeline that fuels sustainable ministry impact.with Lori Murillo
The Soul of the Executive Pastor
We'll explore the often-overlooked inner life of second-chair leaders. Drawing from real ministry experience, this session invites Executive Pastors to examine the unique idols, pressures, and spiritual challenges of the role—and to rediscover Gospel-centered soul care, Spirit reliance, and healthy leadership that flows from the heart, not just competence.
LOCATION: TBDwith Phil Taylor
Designing a Generosity Development Culture
Generosity cultures aren’t built through campaigns — they are cultivated through intentional leadership, meaningful communication, and relational discipleship. In this breakout, we’ll explore how to design a generosity development culture with a focused emphasis on giver communication and building authentic relationships with high-capacity givers. You’ll learn how to respond to generosity in ways that make people feel valued, communicate impact with clarity and trust, and represent generosity in weekend services as worship rather than obligation. Participants will leave with practical frameworks and relational strategies that help celebrate impact and invite people into deeper kingdom partnership.with Brandon Beard
Five Principles to Develop a Healthy Volunteer Culture
Laws of Nature are fundamental constants that do not break, no matter what kind of pressure they’re under. Similarly, there are core values that a pastor lives by to develop a thriving volunteer culture in even the busiest of ministry seasons. In this breakout session, we will unpack five guiding principles lived out by pastors who consistently develop healthy volunteer cultures. Through practical examples and transferable stories, you’ll learn how to cultivate an environment volunteers love to be part of.
with Ryland Fox
How to Ignite a Next Gen Movement
Why is our need for leaders so great, and our candidates for leadership so few? The reason you have a deficit of leaders today is because you did not develop them yesterday. Leaders are not bought, they’re built and every single church has a gold mine of potential—your young people. As your church gets older, it needs to get younger. This session will teach and train you how to discover, develop and deploy the next generation of your church so you can go further, faster.with Devon Frye
Accountability: How to Move Your Team Forward
Accountability isn’t about pressure—it’s about clarity, ownership, and growth. Drawing from Division I athletics and executive church leadership, Jeff and Julie Snodgrass will share practical ways leaders can create clear expectations, healthy feedback, and shared ownership that moves teams forward. Learn how the right accountability systems build trust, strengthen culture, and help people perform at their best.