Professional Christian Coaching Today

Connection, we all long for it, and yet it can be hard to find. So, we have good news for you today. In this special episode, we not only inform and inspire you to make deeper connections with other Christian coaches, but we also give you a FREE tool to help make that happen.

Tune in to hear:

• How God has been moving throughout the history of the Christian coaching movement • The shared longing we all have to connect more deeply with one another • A practical and free tool that will help you initiate and grow your relationships

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The Christian Coaching movement is growing all over the globe, and in

today's episode, we get to hear first-hand accounts of what God is doing in the continent of Africa. Brian and Debi Zaas, Co-Directors of Navigators

Life and Leadership Coaching, Bora Francois from Rwanda, and Levi

Ndimubanzi from Uganda shares exciting stories, glowing testimonies, and

tremendous insight from their recent "Coach Camp Africa."

Listen in to learn:

• Key drivers that led Navigators Life and Leadership Coaching to

expand to 36 different countries

• The developing coaching culture among the African leaders

• Personal stories of how the Holy Spirit is at work in Africa

• Insights we can learn from Africans and their commitment to coaching

Connect with our guests at: www.Navigators.org/coaching.

About Brian Zaas

Brian Zaas, MA, PCC, CPLC, has the privilege of serving as Co-Director,

Navigators Life and Leadership Coaching as part of their Train, Develop,

and Care organization, serving alongside his wife, Debi. They are also

founders and transformational coaches with Pursuing Promise,

www.pursuingpromise.com.

Within Navigators, Brian & Debi have expanded their coaching presence in

more than 15 countries crossing all continents with the goal of equipping

leaders through a coach approach to achieve the God-sized goal of raising

up 1 million disciples in the next 10 years.

Brian and Debi coach business and ministry leaders and their teams,

integrating a biblical worldview and values into their vision and mission.

They coach influential leaders, exceptional entrepreneurs, and industrious

innovators who guide mid-sized and emerging business enterprises and

ministries seeking to achieve breakthrough goals with boldness and

steadfastness. We also come alongside pastoral and ministry leaders in

their missional organizations and churches to help them grow a disciple-making culture.

Brian's emphatic belief is that lordship and stewardship precede

entrepreneurship and leadership. God knows our full potential, He created

our passion, and through His Word, prayer, circumstances, and godly

counsel, God will grow us to be both difference-makers and disciple-makers in every life we touch and every enterprise we build.

Brian and Debi have been married for 31 years and live near Tampa, FL. They are blessed with two daughters, Jenna & Kayla; and twin grandsons,

Noland & Nash.

About Debi Zaas

Debi Zaas – Lives in Tampa Bay area in Florida. She and Brian have been

married for 32 years and have two daughters and twin three-year-old

grandsons.

She is Co-Director of Navigators Life and Leadership Coaching. After eight

years of serving with Navigator Church Ministries, she transitioned to HQ

with Navigators Train-Develop-Care in hopes of having a greater impact

within Navigators cross-missionally, cities, and beyond. Debi is passionate

about coaching and sees this as an important tool to reach the God-sized

goal of Navigators raising up 1 million disciple-makers in 2030.

She earned her Master's degree in Sports Psychology at the University of

Maryland where she ended a 20-year career in coaching gymnastics. Debi

obtained a Master level of coaching with the Institute of Professional

Excellence in Coaching and has a Professional Coaching Credential (PCC)

with the International Coaching Federation. (ICF). She is a Mentor Coach

and Instructor for Professional Christian Coaching Institute (PCCI) where

she has had the opportunity to walk alongside over 50 Navigators to grow

in their coaching skills to make disciples. Several of these Navigators are

Certified Coaches with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and

many are in pursuit of their ICF credential.

About Bora Francois

Bora Francois lives in Rwanda where he serves as Navigator's National

Director. He is married to Francine and has a 2-year-old son, Robero. Bora

is a PCCI student, Certified Navigator Life and Leadership Coach, and

Mentor in Training.

About Levi Ndimubanzi

Levi Ndimubanz lives in Uganda where he serves as Navigator's National

Director. He is married to Irene and has 2 daughters. He will soon be a

Certified Navigator Life & Leadership Coach, and he is a student at PCCI.

In a success-driven world focused on outcomes and results, coaching helps clients live and lead in a different way. In a new book, Lead Like it Matters to God, Richard Stearns, Former President of World Vision, offers a roadmap and guide for those who want to live in a more values-focused, character-driven way.

Tune in to hear some of our key takeaways from this book, including: • Why the starting point for all leadership is surrender • How trusting God allows us to flourish when times are tough • The importance of apology and forgiveness in promoting organizational health • The reason that excellence is important, but perfection is not

You can learn more about this book at https://www.ivpress.com/lead-like-it-matters-to-god.

Kevin Jackson can be found at: www.todayforyourtomorrow.com

Imagine a coaching session when absolutely nothing is wasted, where every word and every moment builds on the next. Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could hear a coach responding to the entirety of the client, the entire time? That's just a few of the golden nuggets you'll glean from this recording of a live coaching session with Master Certified Coach Brent O'Bannon and added commentary from Master Certified Coach, Cheryl Scanlan. Listen to learn: How to have a truly client-centered conversation When to introduce a new concept for added perspective The importance of creating new awareness and connecting the dots to forward the client's movement How using a simple question to expand the reward of the hard work the client has done

About Brent O'Bannon, MCC Brent O'Bannon is a PCC and the first GALLUP-Certified Strengths Coach in the world. He coaches and champions leaders, entrepreneurs, and multi-million dollar companies to grow stronger, work smarter, and live richer with their strengths.

Brent teaches the PCCI Strengths Based Coaching course and is a recent Amazon #1 best-selling author of Selling Strengths: A Little Book for Executive and Life Coaches About Using Your Strengths to Get Paying Clients.

Join his vision to champion strengths for global excellence at www.brentobannon.com About Cheryl Scanlan, MCC Cheryl Scanlan, MCC, CMCC is a former executive with a multi-million dollar firm in New York, and combines strong business acumen with a passion for the Christian coaching industry, to facilitate the development of confident ambassadors for Christ in both corporate and ministry environments.

Cheryl began coaching in 2004 after a long battle with a difficult disease served as a Divine incubator for growing a focused love for the Lord and His church body. In 2003, her husband and best friend of 34 years, Tom, was the first to suggest coaching as a possible vehicle of ministry to the body. Her work began in her local church of 4000 where she continues to serve as a coach, and leadership developer/trainer after formerly serving in the capacities of Women's Minister and Care Director.

Cheryl is primarily a business and executive coach, having worked with hundreds of C-Levels 1-1 and trained over 1000 CEOs. Examples of work over the past 15 years include developing high-performance organizations, fostering executive health, and preparing organizations for critical transitions. For more information visit www.c3advantage.net. She has clocked over 10,000 hours of coaching.

Her core passion is to see God's people walk in step with Him. An ardent student of God's Word, she is a trained Precept Bible Teacher and has studied the Word inductively for over 20 years. She has recently developed a one-year and six-month Bible reading plan that will be made available through her non-profit, Promised Land Living beginning in 2020. www.PromisedLandLiving.com

We all want to do what matters. To go beyond productivity to investing in the people and things that matter most. But that's much easier said than done. In this episode, the author and coach Teresa McCloy transparently shares her personal story of how God helped her move from being a workaholic to enjoying a whole new way of living.

Tune in to learn: • How to move from rush to rest • The beauty in slowing down and savoring the life God has given you • Ways a modern-day Rule of Life can set you up for daily success • Coaching tools and techniques to help your clients focus on what's most important to them

About Teresa McCloy Teresa McCloy is as ACC Certified Coach with the ICF and a Certified Spiritual Director. She is the creator and founder of the REALIFE Process®, a faith-focused business that helps entrepreneurs, coaches, and consultants develop and diversify their business by providing certification and training using the signature content of the REALIFE Process® as well as coaching and community to grow their impact and increase their income.

When she is not on the road speaking, coaching clients, recording her podcast, The REALIFE Process Podcast, or training new REALIFE Process® Certified Facilitators, Teresa enjoys being on the family farm, tending her wildflower garden where she loves to cut fresh flowers, enjoying a great cup of coffee with a friend, and of course, traveling as much as possible!

Teresa is also the CEO at Professions Christian Coaching Institute and and Instructor for Successful Coach and the Leadership Bridge Class

Get the book "Do What Matters: Live from Rest, Not Rush, Using The REALIFE Process" at www.DoWhatMattersBook.com.

Whether you are new to the coaching field or a seasoned professional, you'll glean great wisdom from this interview with Coach Scott Frickenstein. Drawing from his background as a senior military officer and academic department chair, Scott shares key insights he's gained on his journey to becoming a leadership coach.

Tune in to learn:

• How God can take the various streams of experience in our lives and use them in our coaching • Ways to shift from telling and teaching to asking and coaching • Why good coaching starts with noticing • The importance of growing your skilling and sharpening your trust in the coaching process

About Scott

Scott served as an Air Force officer for over 25 years and was privileged to lead thousands of Airmen. He launched Leading by Design in 2017 to help pastors and other Christian leaders understand God's design for leading and His unique personal design for each leader. Thru this ministry, Scott coaches individuals, couples, and teams, and he leads retreats and seminars on topics related to leader development.

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Contact with Scott at www.LeadingByDesign.us

Values undergird everything we do as coaches. But like many broad themes, the temptation is to talk about values in a theoretical or philosophical way without understanding how they play out in everyday life. In today's podcast, Chris McCluskey is going to use the Professional Christian Coaching Institute as a case study, so you can put real meat on the bones of this critical concept.

In this episode, you'll get a backhand-the-scenes to peek at:

• How key values are identified and chosen

• The importance of weaving core values into every area of life and business

• Operationalizing values on a daily basis

• Getting and keeping the buy-in of the entire team

If you want to transform lives through sharing hope, skills, and encouragement so you and others can move from success to significance to legacy, then tune in to hear from Tom Ziglar, a world-class leader and motivator.

Today, meet a Legacy Coach who:

• Knows the truth of leaving an inheritance to someone and the power of leaving a legacy in someone. • Shows people how to teach and transfer wisdom, so others can make decisions for themselves that ripple into eternity. • Lives for the value of significance, not just temporary success. • Shares openly about how you can become a person who bears fruit, which creates a legacy worth leaving

About Tom Ziglar

Tom Ziglar has had the rare privilege of spending his entire life surrounded by world-class leaders, innovators, and motivators. Family dinner included the presence of the world's TOP motivator, his father, Zig Ziglar.

"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."

Tom speaks around the world to billion-dollar companies, small business owners, and well-known academic institutions like Cambridge and Harvard.

Through Tom's leadership, the Ziglar brand is more relevant today than ever:

• Over 4 million fans on the Ziglar Facebook page. • Over 40 million downloads of one of the top business podcasts on iTunes, The Ziglar Show Podcast. • Over 200 Ziglar Legacy Certified trainers in over 17 countries around the world

The Ziglar Mission, and Tom's mission, is simple:

"To transform lives through hope, skills, and encouragement, and to help you move from Success to Significance to Legacy."

Learn more at https://www.ziglar.com

Sound pretentious? It's not an oversell. It's valid. One year after becoming an "adjunctpreneur" one man sought to replace his regular income with coaching income in 365 days. It didn't happen by dabbling about or attempting osmosis. Tune in to hear about Andy Wood's personal journey and glean the insights you need to build your own fully sustainable coaching practice.

You'll hear more about:

• How to get specific and bold about your goals so you can make the shift from skill development to business-building. • How having a "bias for action" helps you answer the question, "What 3 things do I need for my coaching business to succeed?"

• How to make a difference in someone else's life by being an instrument of growth and transformation.

• How to take the mystery out of networking and zone in on value-added relationships, with no hook attached.

About Andy Wood

You won't find MADISEL in the dictionary… yet. But hang out with Andy Wood for any length of time and you'll hear about it. MADISEL is an acronym for "Make a difference in Someone Else's Life," and that is what has driven Andy for the last 40 years.

Whether as an author, professor, church leader, consultant, coach, or seminar leader, Andy has invested his life in communicating truth with passion and personally encouraging others. He has a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership, 32 years of pastoral ministry experience, and 14 years' experience as a university professor, where he has taught more than 10,000 future leaders.

Andy started transitioning into professional Christian coaching in March 2017 and in just over a year has seen 45 clients in various settings. His main focus is on leaders and performance-driven professionals, including business owners, pastors and ministry leaders.

He's about to celebrate 35 years of marriage to Robin, his wife. Together they have three married children and nine little champions of the heart who call them "Papa" and "Grammy."

Learn more about Andy Wood at http://www.lifevesting.com

Living the coaching lifestyle affords you the freedom, flexibility, and ability to live the life you want to live. Today, we've got 4 seasoned professionals who are eager to share the ins and outs of living out your dream while you build a portable business and serve others through coaching.

Together, we'll:

• Unpack how you can work from anywhere in the world, at any time of the day, so you can spend more time with those you love most. • Discover how to earn a living from your home so you're not just making a living financially but making a living relationally and experientially as well. • Why coaching doesn't have to fit into your lifestyle because you can fit your lifestyle into coaching and engage in your personal, practical everyday life, more often!