For Church Executive Leadership Teams and Leadership Boards
Strategic Leadership Development
Why "strategic?"
Because this service is not simply about becoming better leaders, but rather raising our leadership ability to strategically and intentionally advance the Kingdom of God.
Church Strategic Leadership Development Program
The American Church is too Comfortable
The American Church has grown comfortable, settling into familiar routines and leaning on past ministry wins to justify the status quo rather than pursuing fresh, God-sized vision. Too often, we prioritize preserving the institution—our buildings, budgets, programs, and preferences—over positioning the Church to actively advance God’s Kingdom in our communities. Like the ten spies in Numbers 13, we assess reality through a limited human lens instead of God’s perspective, allowing fear and perceived constraints to shape our decisions rather than faith in His power. While we genuinely care, believe, and hope, our faith frequently stops short of action. Scripture is clear that "faith without deeds is dead" (James 2), and that obedience requires movement—setting foot in the Jordan before the waters stop flowing (Joshua 3:8, 15).
Comfort has led us to wait for God to act before we step forward, while biblical faith calls us to move first, trusting that God will deliver as we obey.
Diagnose Your Church Leadership
Lack Clarity
❌ “We’re active and well-intentioned, but we lack a clear, shared sense of where God is specifically leading our church.”
Misalignment Among Leadership
❌ “Misalignment slows decisions, creates tension, and quietly limits our impact.”
Risk-averse
❌ “We default to what feels safe rather than what requires faith, especially when finances and risk are involved.”
Lack a Strategic Vision
❌ “We’re consumed by services, staffing, and issues—leaving little time to think strategically.”
Zero Movement
❌ “We’ve plateaued and feel stuck in maintenance mode.”
Worldly Success
❌ “Success is quietly measured by attendance, budgets, and approval rather than obedience and faithfulness.”
Dull Iron
❌ “Our board tends to agree quickly to keep things comfortable, avoiding tension and hard questions that could sharpen us.”
Read the Word but Don't Live It
❌ “Our people are inspired on Sunday but not mobilized for Kingdom impact throughout the week.”
From Comfortable Leadership to Courageous Kingdom Impact
Most churches are not failing—they are functioning. Busy calendars, faithful people, and steady giving can quietly mask a deeper issue: comfort has replaced conviction, and maintenance has displaced mission.
This program is designed for senior pastors and leadership boards who sense that God is calling their church to more—not more activity, but more faith, alignment, courage, and Kingdom impact.
We work directly with your executive leadership and board to bring clarity to God’s assignment, align decision-making around biblical conviction, and build a strategy that positions your church to advance the Kingdom with confidence rather than caution.
This is not about growth for growth’s sake. It is about stewarding God’s people, resources, and calling with excellence, faith, and obedience.
Here's Exactly What You Get With This Strategic Leadership Development Program:
✅Phase 0 Framework™ Workshop ($25,000 Value)
- This 2-day interactive workshop for leadership teams enables your team to design a strategic plan that aligns with God's vision. It is a "done-with-you" workshop.
- You will gain clarity on your leadership direction and ensure that your strategic vision aligns with the direction God is leading and with a plan to go there.
- You will work with Jordan and use his Phase 0 Framework™ to:
- Define a God-sized objective
- Build an executable strategy
- Anticipate and prepare for opposition
- Chart your course and next steps
✅12-14 month leadership capacity building series ($150,000 Value)
- These monthly group coaching sessions are designed to increase the leadership capacity of each member of the team. Following the Phase 0 Framework™ Workshop, monthly coaching will empower the leaders of the church to direct, guide, coach, mentor, and lead the congregation along the strategy which the team built. It's leadership development training and coaching for a real, strategic purpose.
✅OPTIONAL 3-, 6-, 12-months of 1:1 coaching sessions ($40,000 Value for 6-months)
- Weekly 1:1 coaching calls with the senior executive ministry leader (senior pastor). Jordan will coach and mentor you as you lead the execution your church's strategic plan. He will walk with you through the leadership challenges and course corrections along the way. Jordan will help you to charge ahead with your strategic plan and hold you accountable to its execution. You will achieve the strategic objectives which God is leading you to achieve and have the confidence for the next one He gives you.
✅Complimentary congregation workshop ($15,000 Value)
- This Full Day Phase 0 Framework™ Workshop holds the keys for you to strengthen participation in congregational activities and allow members of the church to replicate this framework in their own lives. This is an opportunity for you to invite members of your congregation and learn the same process which the church leadership is using to cast a God-sized strategic vision, build a strategy, and execute it.
✅Speaking engagement for church events ($7,000 Value)
- This keynote or breakout room speaking engagement is offered to provide an event your church is hosting with leadership value and messaging that Jordan is bringing to the church leaders. It can be crafted across several different leadership topics that fit the theme of the event and the message that you want to offer your attendees.
Total Value: $197,000
If this service could even be quantified in dollars.
YOUR CHURCH'S INVESTMENT: $20,000
(Excludes coaching option)
What This Program Delivers:
✅Unshakeable Clarity of Mission
You will define—and unite around—a clear, God-centered mission that guides every major decision.
✅Alignment Between Pastor, Staff, and Board
You will eliminate friction and ambiguity, enabling faster, wiser, and more unified leadership decisions.
✅Faith-Filled Decision-Making Frameworks
You will replace reactive, risk-averse decisions with biblically grounded, strategically sound leadership.
✅Strategic Leadership Beyond Sunday
You will move from operational overload to proactive, long-range Kingdom strategy.
✅Sharper Iron Leadership Culture
Your board will grow in biblical courage—welcoming healthy tension, asking better questions, and sharpening one another through truth, wisdom, and faith rather than comfort.
✅Mobilized Kingdom Impact
Your church will shift from attendance-focused ministry to community-transforming discipleship.
Why Trust Jordan's Coaching?
Jordan Ames has spent his life leading where certainty is absent and the stakes are real. As a retired Marine Special Operations Officer, he learned firsthand that transformation happens outside the comfort zone—when control is limited and trust in God must be absolute. That same faith-driven resolve now defines his coaching.
Today, Jordan serves as a strategic consultant for a counter-trafficking nonprofit, helping rescue victims and restore lives through vocational training. He lives what he teaches. His coaching equips leaders to clarify God-sized objectives, evaluate risk wisely, and execute actionable plans with discipline and confidence.
Jordan is a strategic leadership coach who helps clients cast compelling vision, build executable strategies, and grow through principled leadership development. He is selective about fit because effective coaching requires trust, alignment, and commitment from both sides.
Just as God declared victory over Jericho before the first step was taken, Jordan helps you move forward in confidence—out of your own way and into your calling.
This Is for Churches Ready to Lead, Not Settle
If your church is willing to move beyond what is comfortable and step into what God is calling you to steward next, this engagement provides the clarity, alignment, and strategic leadership required to do so faithfully.
Email me at [email protected] and let's jump on a call.
Learn more and see a sample 14-month curriculum by downloading the info paper below.
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