Executive Leader Training Cohorts

BY INTENTIONAL CHURCHES

Executive leadership in the local church is uniquely complex—and too important to navigate alone.

Whether you're stepping into executive leadership for the first time or you're a seasoned leader carrying the weight of organizational strategy, team development, and church health, the challenges can feel overwhelming. Vision gets crowded out by urgent demands. Clarity and connection can give way to isolation.

Our Executive Leader Training Cohorts were created to change that.

We believe that intentional leadership doesn’t happen by accident. It takes space to reflect, the right tools to act, and a trusted community to grow alongside. These cohorts offer all three.

  • Practical tools rooted in real-world ministry experience.

  • Personal coaching from veteran Executive Pastors who’ve been in your shoes.

  • Peer collaboration with leaders who understand your world because they’re in the trenches of executive ministry, too.

In a role where so much is expected of you, this is a place where you can be equipped, encouraged, and sharpened—not just for the next decision, but for the long haul.

Because healthy leadership isn’t just good for you—it’s vital for the Church.

Lap 1:

Executive Leader Training Cohort

  • Receive practical tools and training in the 12 Disciplines of an Intentional Executive Leader.

  • Guided by an experienced Executive Pastor (XP) who will serve as your personal coach and cohort facilitator throughout the year-long journey.

  • Be part of a supportive, collaborative learning community—a group of 12 executive leaders who, like you, are in the trenches of ministry.

  • Designed for executive leaders in their first five years of executive leadership or those being developed for a future executive role.

Advanced Lap 2:

Deep Dive Executive Leader Cohort

  • Designed for those with 5+ years of executive leadership experience or who have completed Lap 1.

  • A collaborative environment where 12 executive leaders co-create the year’s learning agenda and tackle their most pressing ministry challenges together.

  • Monthly calls with subject-matter experts who bring targeted insight and tools based on the group’s selected focus areas.

  • Facilitated by two seasoned Executive Pastors, who provide strategic guidance and personalized support to help the group achieve its goals.

  • Modeled after Vistage-style peer groups, this cohort fosters deep, lasting friendships and a coaching community designed for long-term mutual growth.

The 12 Disciplines of an Intentional Executive Leader

1. The Senior Pastor/ Executive Pastor Relationship

2. Building Healthy Teams

3. Staffing & Human Resources

4. Budgeting & Finance

5. Strategic Planning

6. Emotionally Healthy Self-Leadership

7. Communications

8. Generosity Development

9. Facilities and Operations

10. Pastoring in this Cultural Moment

11. Leadership & Volunteer Development

12. Leading through Change and Crisis

What you’ll get:

  • Two and a half days of in-person training

  • Special group dinner

  • Monthly 90-minute Zoom calls

  • The Intentional Executive Leader Toolkit

  • Workbook and materials

Have questions? We're here to help!

Email Jeff Bennett at jeff.bennett@intentionalchurches.com

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