About Paul:
I help ministry boards learn to govern effectively by deploying my God-given strengths and gifts; my experience in and knowledge of business, risk management, and governance; my deep understanding of LCMS culture; and my love for theology as it relates to the joy and power of living as a baptized called and commissioned vocational missionary for Jesus.
My passion is helping ministries advance God’s mission and transform the culture by using a system of effective governance to accountably achieve strategic future-focused results.
I grew up on the Concordia Senior College/Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne where my father served as professor and administrator from 1967-2001. Having graduated from Concordia Lutheran High School and Indiana University (Bachelor’s degree and MBA), I moved with my wife Peggy to Midland, TX where I served as financial analyst with Exxon USA (now ExxonMobil). We subsequently moved to Fort Wayne where I served in a mid-sized independent insurance agency before owning and growing an agency that now is a national agency leader in insuring Fire & EMS organizations.
I became interested in Policy Governance® while serving as a leader of my congregation. After being selected to attend John and Miriam Carver’s Policy Governance® Academy in 2014, I joined in 2015 The Governance Coach, a foremost international Policy Governance® coaching and consulting firm. I have direct experience applying Policy Governance within a board context having served for nine years on the Lutheran Bible Translators board during its transition from “policy-based governance” to Policy Governance.
Ministry boards are often preoccupied with prescribing operational details and managing one-step-up from the ministry leader instead of governing one-step-down from those on whose behalf they govern (“owners” for shorthand) to ensure real results are achieved for those served. Regrettably, too many ministries lack role clarity, leading to decision-making confusion and subsequent relational tension and a lack of proactive and strategic responses to meeting the urgent need of their communities to experience Jesus.
Governing well requires board servant-leadership focused on accountably delegating to the ministry leader the achievement of results for targeted beneficiaries at a specified worth (“Ends” for shorthand) within board-established boundaries of ethics and prudence, both as reasonably interpreted by the ministry leader.
If your ministry has the capacity for this type of governance system, you will be rewarded with the benefits of role clarity and accountability and the joy of knowing you are giving God glory by achieving through His Spirit real results for those you serve.
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