Coaches are available!
- A list of coaches who are part of the Leadership Coaching Project are listed below.
- Contact a coach directly or fill out a form to be matched with a coach.
- Each coach will offer an introductory session if you have questions about coaching before you begin.
- Discounted rates are available to leaders who live in a town or country area with a population of fewer than 20,000.
For additional information, contact the Province V Coordinator:
Heather Barta via email or call / text: 989-413-3229
- Contact a coach directly or fill out a form to be matched with a coach.
- Each coach will offer an introductory session if you have questions about coaching before you begin.
- Discounted rates are available to leaders who live in a town or country area with a population of fewer than 20,000.
For additional information, contact the Province V Coordinator:
Heather Barta via email or call / text: 989-413-3229
Leadership Coaching Project Coaches
Reach out to a coach directly or use the form above.
Active Coaches:
David Carlisle *
David Carlisle works for the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan, and a Benedictine in formation with the Canon Communities of Saint Benedict (https://osbcn.org/). He focuses on how coaching can help individuals grow into the kind of community members they are called to be, as well as in how team and group coaching can help a community grow into its vocation in the world. He believes that the Benedictine way of Christian formation through commitment, mutual listening, and transformation of life (traditionally called stability, obedience, and conversion of life) overlaps a great deal with the Christian coaching relationship, and that both processes can offer an authentic path to abundant life in community.
Phone: 906-458-6772
Email: david@upepiscopal.org
Janet Grace Cook
Janet is a lifelong Episcopalian, and a lay leader at St. James in Dexter, Michigan. One of Janet’s favorite quotes is from Rachel Naomi Remen: "Listening creates holy silence. When you listen generously to people, they can hear truth in themselves, often for the first time. And in the silence of listening you can know yourself in everyone." Janet worked with this truth in her 30+ years as a dental hygienist where she co-created hundreds of deep connections with her patients. Each was an opportunity to see people as whole, creative and resourceful. Janet and her husband John seek revitalization at the beaches of Lake Michigan, a trait they have passed down to their two adult daughters. She enjoys cooking, baking bread, kayaking and reading. Janet seeks the holiness in Beauty found in nature, art and fellow humans.
Phone: 810-599-3631
Email: janet.cook114@gmail.com
Margaret D’Anieri
The Rev. Margaret D’Anieri has been an Episcopal priest for 19 years and currently serves as Canon for Mission in the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio, following a business career in consulting and strategic planning. Her coaching interests are in working with individuals who want to design a future of joy and accomplishment; working with leadership bodies that want to challenge themselves and think creatively; and walking alongside those caring for elders living with dementia. Margaret lives with her spouse Chet Bowling on an organic farm outside of Oberlin, Ohio.
Phone: 419-577-9960
Email: mdanieri@dohio.org
Nancy Foster
As a lifelong Episcopalian, Nancy has been a lay leader in many different roles at both the parish and diocesan levels. She understands the challenges our priests, members of the vestry, and other key volunteers face. Nancy is an expert in helping leaders embrace the experience of change, so they become a healthier individual/parish with new energy for ministry. Nancy was a trainer in the Diocesan Church Development Institute for the Dioceses of Eastern and Western Michigan, training parish teams in trust development, the process of change and appreciative inquiry. She’s spent the majority of her professional life in Education, with a PhD in Educational Leadership. She’s spent many years working within her parish and the diocese to create and implement a Covenant with a neighboring parish to enable them to call a full-time rector together. Her mission is to work with parishes to discern God's call for them.
Phone: 231-846-0110
Email: nfoste01@gmail.com
Scheduling: https://calendly.com/nfoste01
Percy Grant
The Rev. Percy Grant has been the Canon for Ministry in the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio for 14 years, and a priest for over 25 years. She attended Virgina Theological Seminary and in 2014 she received a Coaching Certificate from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western University. She uses her coaching skills with individuals discerning their call to ministry, and clergy who are searching for a new call. She also works with vestries and search committees as they weave their way through calling a new rector. She finds it an honor to walk with those listening to God’s call, and to live out their Christian vocation. Percy lives in Cleveland Heights Ohio with her wife, Nan and two large dogs.
Phone: 216-774-0455
Email: Pgrant@dohio.org
Website: https://www.percygrantcoaching.org
Rachel Harrison *
The Rev. Rachel Harrison felt the pull to ministry while looking out the window of her family's bindery business and feeling called to proclaim good news to the poor. From there she discerned a call to priestly ministry in the Diocese of Ohio where she serves today. A 2019 graduate of The Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas with a Masters of Divinity. She began her tenure with St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in June of 2019 where she has helped expand outreach efforts into the community. In her spare time the Rev. enjoys knitting, reading/writing, board games, and taking care of her four cats with husband, Will.
Phone: 419-704-7258
Email: rachel.jagielski@gmail.com
Janet Huff-Worvie *
Janet Huff-Worvie is a lay leader in the Diocese of Eastern Michigan and a member of the Mutual Ministry Support Team at St. John’s, Otter Lake. Janet understands from her work as Standing Committee President that all gifts and talents are needed to do God’s work and reside within individuals and congregations. She believes the work done through coaching only enhances the gifts and talents humans already possess. She is quick to remind us that as we follow Jesus we should remember God doesn’t call us to do small things, God calls us to do big things. Janet retired from Macomb Community College as a Human Resource Administrator and is owner of Graham Equine Center since 2008. In addition to traditional methods of coaching, she partners with her horses and together they work to create a non-riding experiential coaching relationship. Janet was a single mother for 20 years and now lives her husband Frank, on a 120 acre farm home to cats, roller pigeons, cattle, five German Wirehaired Pointers, and of course, her horses.
Phone: 586-615-0331
Email: janethuffworvie@gmail.com
Laura Jackson
Laura Jackson, MDiv MA-C, supports leaders and communities in engaging change and growing resilience, She brings perspectives from developmental psychology, clinical trauma repair work, and pragmatic theology.
Email: laura.w.jackson@gmail.com
Website: http://www.holygroundcoaching.com
Scheduling: https://calendly.com/laura-w-jackson/
Annette Joseph *
Annette is the mother of five and enjoys writing. She writes daily at arjoseph.blospot.com. She is the Regional Missioner for Christ Church, Cape Girardeau and St. Paul's, Sikeston, MO. She has been a priest in the Diocese of Missouri for nine years. She has been published in the Labor Tribune and in Lifting Women's Voices. Annette is excited about coaching. It taps into the creative side of a person and helps them see different opportunities and paths they can take. She likes to deeply listen and coaching is just another way to attune herself to this practice and help the coachee hear themselves as well.
Phone: 573-300-7885
Email: arjoseph7@gmail.com
Scheduling: https://calendly.com/arjoseph7/
Pedro Lara *
Pedro Lara is rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Delavan, in rural southern Wisconsin. He is married and father to 3 daughters. Before going to seminary, Pedro was involved in a Spanish speaking church plant where he began a youth group & a youth boxing program for that community. Before moving to Wisconsin, he served as curate in St. Mary’s Irving, a predominantly Hispanic congregation. As a bilingual Mexican American millennial, Pedro has a deep passion for seeing the Church live out its calling to be a community of reconciliation where people of all nations, languages, tribes and cultures call one another brothers and sisters. Pedro sees the power of coaching and loves that coaching is “fundamentally a ministry of encouragement”. He is excited to encourage and build up clergy, leaders or teams through coaching in either English, Spanish or both.
Phone: 469-422-4140
Email: pedrolara247@gmail.com
Pamela S. Lenartowicz *
The Rev. Pamela Lenartowicz is Priest-in-Charge at St. Andrew Episcopal Church in Gaylord, Michigan. Pam completed her clergy formation through the Coppage-Gordon School of Ministry was ordained in 2012. Prior to her ordination Pam had a long career as an Adult and Geriatric Nurse Practitioner. In 2018, Pam retired from health care to concentrate fully on her ministry. In the 31 years as an NP Pam coached many patients in health issues and life events. At the time she didn’t realize it was “coaching.” Since completing her education as a coach she realized that this is what she has done all along and is now looking forward to helping others achieve any number of goals with the help of a coach.
Phone: 989-858-6199
Email: pamlynch@msn.com
Matthew Lukens
Matthew has been working in ministry in one form or another for the last 13 years, beginning when he started up a campus ministry. Since then he has worked in a wide range of contexts including diocesan level work, congregational redevelopment, and young adult and campus ministry. Matthew currently serves as the chaplain at Canterbury House at the University of Michigan. In his practice, coaching is a process that offers time for you to explore your goals and dreams and how you might take concrete steps towards them. In this work, a coach is not an expert to tell you what to do but a steward for a process that becomes a deeply helpful addition to a leader’s support system.
email: matthew.m.lukens@gmail.com
scheduling: calendly.com/matthew-m-lukens
Lesley MacKellar
Lesley first became interested in coaching while working in global sales leadership development for a large pharmaceutical company. While there, she developed and delivered several coaching workshops and coached some of her colleagues. In 2017, she set up her own executive coaching practice and has now coached over 200 executives in a variety of industries and organizations, including faith-based ones. She recently acquired her Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential from the International Coaching Federation. She is an active member of St. Francis In-The-Fields Episcopal Church in Zionsville, Indiana where she has served on the Christian Formation Leadership Council, the Vestry, where she was Senior Warden. Lesley is married, has a 25-year old daughter and is caretaker to five, very mischievous dogs.
Phone: 317-908-4426
Email: lesleymackellar@gmail.com
Matt Wahlgren *
Matt Wahlgren is priest-in-charge of St Paul’s Episcopal Church in Fremont Ohio. He has beautiful wife and three gorgeous daughters. Matt was raised in the Pentecostal tradition, and found his calling into ministry through the mega-church. He has served as a youth pastor in the Evangelical Covenant Church, and as a teaching pastor for an independent church plant before finding his way into the Episcopal Church in 2013. He is excited to work with you in order to further discover the potential God has placed inside of you.
Phone: 419-388-5806
Email: mattwahlgren@gmail.com
Scheduling: https://calendly.com/mattwahlgren/coaching
Heather Barta
Heather Barta is passionate about how coaching can transform an individual or group as they make goals to move into the future. When she first experienced a coach training, she intuitively imagined a church where every leader has a coach. She can imagine the confidence and support that leaders can have with the support of a coach. Church leadership is hard, overwhelming, and sometimes heartbreaking. A coach deeply listens to a leader while encouraging them to follow their heart and their gut. Regular coaching invites accountability and the ability to be flexible, to try faster and fail, and to then try yet another idea. In her free time, Heather spends her time riding horses, reading, and knitting while watching movies and TV.
Phone: 989-413-3229
Email: revbarta@gmail.com
Website: https://BreathePlanDo.weebly.com
Scheduling: https://calendly.com/revbarta
David Carlisle works for the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan, and a Benedictine in formation with the Canon Communities of Saint Benedict (https://osbcn.org/). He focuses on how coaching can help individuals grow into the kind of community members they are called to be, as well as in how team and group coaching can help a community grow into its vocation in the world. He believes that the Benedictine way of Christian formation through commitment, mutual listening, and transformation of life (traditionally called stability, obedience, and conversion of life) overlaps a great deal with the Christian coaching relationship, and that both processes can offer an authentic path to abundant life in community.
Phone: 906-458-6772
Email: david@upepiscopal.org
Janet Grace Cook
Janet is a lifelong Episcopalian, and a lay leader at St. James in Dexter, Michigan. One of Janet’s favorite quotes is from Rachel Naomi Remen: "Listening creates holy silence. When you listen generously to people, they can hear truth in themselves, often for the first time. And in the silence of listening you can know yourself in everyone." Janet worked with this truth in her 30+ years as a dental hygienist where she co-created hundreds of deep connections with her patients. Each was an opportunity to see people as whole, creative and resourceful. Janet and her husband John seek revitalization at the beaches of Lake Michigan, a trait they have passed down to their two adult daughters. She enjoys cooking, baking bread, kayaking and reading. Janet seeks the holiness in Beauty found in nature, art and fellow humans.
Phone: 810-599-3631
Email: janet.cook114@gmail.com
Margaret D’Anieri
The Rev. Margaret D’Anieri has been an Episcopal priest for 19 years and currently serves as Canon for Mission in the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio, following a business career in consulting and strategic planning. Her coaching interests are in working with individuals who want to design a future of joy and accomplishment; working with leadership bodies that want to challenge themselves and think creatively; and walking alongside those caring for elders living with dementia. Margaret lives with her spouse Chet Bowling on an organic farm outside of Oberlin, Ohio.
Phone: 419-577-9960
Email: mdanieri@dohio.org
Nancy Foster
As a lifelong Episcopalian, Nancy has been a lay leader in many different roles at both the parish and diocesan levels. She understands the challenges our priests, members of the vestry, and other key volunteers face. Nancy is an expert in helping leaders embrace the experience of change, so they become a healthier individual/parish with new energy for ministry. Nancy was a trainer in the Diocesan Church Development Institute for the Dioceses of Eastern and Western Michigan, training parish teams in trust development, the process of change and appreciative inquiry. She’s spent the majority of her professional life in Education, with a PhD in Educational Leadership. She’s spent many years working within her parish and the diocese to create and implement a Covenant with a neighboring parish to enable them to call a full-time rector together. Her mission is to work with parishes to discern God's call for them.
Phone: 231-846-0110
Email: nfoste01@gmail.com
Scheduling: https://calendly.com/nfoste01
Percy Grant
The Rev. Percy Grant has been the Canon for Ministry in the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio for 14 years, and a priest for over 25 years. She attended Virgina Theological Seminary and in 2014 she received a Coaching Certificate from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western University. She uses her coaching skills with individuals discerning their call to ministry, and clergy who are searching for a new call. She also works with vestries and search committees as they weave their way through calling a new rector. She finds it an honor to walk with those listening to God’s call, and to live out their Christian vocation. Percy lives in Cleveland Heights Ohio with her wife, Nan and two large dogs.
Phone: 216-774-0455
Email: Pgrant@dohio.org
Website: https://www.percygrantcoaching.org
Rachel Harrison *
The Rev. Rachel Harrison felt the pull to ministry while looking out the window of her family's bindery business and feeling called to proclaim good news to the poor. From there she discerned a call to priestly ministry in the Diocese of Ohio where she serves today. A 2019 graduate of The Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas with a Masters of Divinity. She began her tenure with St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in June of 2019 where she has helped expand outreach efforts into the community. In her spare time the Rev. enjoys knitting, reading/writing, board games, and taking care of her four cats with husband, Will.
Phone: 419-704-7258
Email: rachel.jagielski@gmail.com
Janet Huff-Worvie *
Janet Huff-Worvie is a lay leader in the Diocese of Eastern Michigan and a member of the Mutual Ministry Support Team at St. John’s, Otter Lake. Janet understands from her work as Standing Committee President that all gifts and talents are needed to do God’s work and reside within individuals and congregations. She believes the work done through coaching only enhances the gifts and talents humans already possess. She is quick to remind us that as we follow Jesus we should remember God doesn’t call us to do small things, God calls us to do big things. Janet retired from Macomb Community College as a Human Resource Administrator and is owner of Graham Equine Center since 2008. In addition to traditional methods of coaching, she partners with her horses and together they work to create a non-riding experiential coaching relationship. Janet was a single mother for 20 years and now lives her husband Frank, on a 120 acre farm home to cats, roller pigeons, cattle, five German Wirehaired Pointers, and of course, her horses.
Phone: 586-615-0331
Email: janethuffworvie@gmail.com
Laura Jackson
Laura Jackson, MDiv MA-C, supports leaders and communities in engaging change and growing resilience, She brings perspectives from developmental psychology, clinical trauma repair work, and pragmatic theology.
Email: laura.w.jackson@gmail.com
Website: http://www.holygroundcoaching.com
Scheduling: https://calendly.com/laura-w-jackson/
Annette Joseph *
Annette is the mother of five and enjoys writing. She writes daily at arjoseph.blospot.com. She is the Regional Missioner for Christ Church, Cape Girardeau and St. Paul's, Sikeston, MO. She has been a priest in the Diocese of Missouri for nine years. She has been published in the Labor Tribune and in Lifting Women's Voices. Annette is excited about coaching. It taps into the creative side of a person and helps them see different opportunities and paths they can take. She likes to deeply listen and coaching is just another way to attune herself to this practice and help the coachee hear themselves as well.
Phone: 573-300-7885
Email: arjoseph7@gmail.com
Scheduling: https://calendly.com/arjoseph7/
Pedro Lara *
Pedro Lara is rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Delavan, in rural southern Wisconsin. He is married and father to 3 daughters. Before going to seminary, Pedro was involved in a Spanish speaking church plant where he began a youth group & a youth boxing program for that community. Before moving to Wisconsin, he served as curate in St. Mary’s Irving, a predominantly Hispanic congregation. As a bilingual Mexican American millennial, Pedro has a deep passion for seeing the Church live out its calling to be a community of reconciliation where people of all nations, languages, tribes and cultures call one another brothers and sisters. Pedro sees the power of coaching and loves that coaching is “fundamentally a ministry of encouragement”. He is excited to encourage and build up clergy, leaders or teams through coaching in either English, Spanish or both.
Phone: 469-422-4140
Email: pedrolara247@gmail.com
Pamela S. Lenartowicz *
The Rev. Pamela Lenartowicz is Priest-in-Charge at St. Andrew Episcopal Church in Gaylord, Michigan. Pam completed her clergy formation through the Coppage-Gordon School of Ministry was ordained in 2012. Prior to her ordination Pam had a long career as an Adult and Geriatric Nurse Practitioner. In 2018, Pam retired from health care to concentrate fully on her ministry. In the 31 years as an NP Pam coached many patients in health issues and life events. At the time she didn’t realize it was “coaching.” Since completing her education as a coach she realized that this is what she has done all along and is now looking forward to helping others achieve any number of goals with the help of a coach.
Phone: 989-858-6199
Email: pamlynch@msn.com
Matthew Lukens
Matthew has been working in ministry in one form or another for the last 13 years, beginning when he started up a campus ministry. Since then he has worked in a wide range of contexts including diocesan level work, congregational redevelopment, and young adult and campus ministry. Matthew currently serves as the chaplain at Canterbury House at the University of Michigan. In his practice, coaching is a process that offers time for you to explore your goals and dreams and how you might take concrete steps towards them. In this work, a coach is not an expert to tell you what to do but a steward for a process that becomes a deeply helpful addition to a leader’s support system.
email: matthew.m.lukens@gmail.com
scheduling: calendly.com/matthew-m-lukens
Lesley MacKellar
Lesley first became interested in coaching while working in global sales leadership development for a large pharmaceutical company. While there, she developed and delivered several coaching workshops and coached some of her colleagues. In 2017, she set up her own executive coaching practice and has now coached over 200 executives in a variety of industries and organizations, including faith-based ones. She recently acquired her Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential from the International Coaching Federation. She is an active member of St. Francis In-The-Fields Episcopal Church in Zionsville, Indiana where she has served on the Christian Formation Leadership Council, the Vestry, where she was Senior Warden. Lesley is married, has a 25-year old daughter and is caretaker to five, very mischievous dogs.
Phone: 317-908-4426
Email: lesleymackellar@gmail.com
Matt Wahlgren *
Matt Wahlgren is priest-in-charge of St Paul’s Episcopal Church in Fremont Ohio. He has beautiful wife and three gorgeous daughters. Matt was raised in the Pentecostal tradition, and found his calling into ministry through the mega-church. He has served as a youth pastor in the Evangelical Covenant Church, and as a teaching pastor for an independent church plant before finding his way into the Episcopal Church in 2013. He is excited to work with you in order to further discover the potential God has placed inside of you.
Phone: 419-388-5806
Email: mattwahlgren@gmail.com
Scheduling: https://calendly.com/mattwahlgren/coaching
Heather Barta
Heather Barta is passionate about how coaching can transform an individual or group as they make goals to move into the future. When she first experienced a coach training, she intuitively imagined a church where every leader has a coach. She can imagine the confidence and support that leaders can have with the support of a coach. Church leadership is hard, overwhelming, and sometimes heartbreaking. A coach deeply listens to a leader while encouraging them to follow their heart and their gut. Regular coaching invites accountability and the ability to be flexible, to try faster and fail, and to then try yet another idea. In her free time, Heather spends her time riding horses, reading, and knitting while watching movies and TV.
Phone: 989-413-3229
Email: revbarta@gmail.com
Website: https://BreathePlanDo.weebly.com
Scheduling: https://calendly.com/revbarta
Other Trained Coaches
Elizabeth Thompson
Where do you want to go in life? What are your hopes for the future of your church? Coaching is a process of listening, exploring and committing to making things happen. As your coach, Elizabeth will listen to you and ask the questions to help you move forward to the future you envision. Elizabeth is a life-long Episcopalian who has viewed the church from many vantage points: from inside the church office, the vestry, and program operations. She brings insight into complex systems, based on experience from a career in state government and public policy, university administration and teaching. She lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and is a member of St. Luke's, Ypsilanti.
Phone: 734-255-8439
Email: eadiethompson@gmail.com
Aaron Gerlach
The Rev. Aaron Gerlach is the rector of Old Trinity, Tiffin in the Diocese of Ohio. In his six years at that parish, they have been exploring new models of clergy leadership as well as building community relationships with the local food movement. Aaron grew up on a generational farm in rural South Dakota (near the Corn Palace if you have heard of that). Before becoming a priest, he was a public school math teacher and IT specialist.
Phone: 815-441-1333
Email: revgerlach@gmail.com
Carol Mader
Carol has been an active ordained minister, a community college teacher and advisor, and community volunteer for over 35 years. She currently serves as a parish priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan and as an Academic Advisor at Lansing Community College (a “global village where she teaches life”). She has Master of Divinity and Master of Personality Theory and Religion degrees, and is currently completing her thesis for the Doctor of Ministry. Carol has done professional work in family systems, conflict resolution, and congregational redevelopment, among other training. Carol’s coaching philosophy is to help clients (individuals or teams) realize and actualize their goals. You and she will talk about “where you are now” and what is your project or life calling you to be and do? What is your “next best faithful step forward”? And how will you take those steps? You can do this meaningful work with a coach by your side. In her spare time, Carol loves reading, yard work, trail hiking, and rock collecting.
Phone: 517-449-8951
Email: revcm2010@gmail.com
Mike Newago *
Fr. Mike is a Franciscan Friar of the Community of Francis and Clare and the Priest-in-Charge of St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Havana, Illinois, and also the Mission Strategy Developer for the Episcopal Diocese of Springfield. He is married and has one daughter who is a college student. Mike enjoys helping clergy and congregations navigate mission work and congregational development and leadership and is currently a doctoral student in transformational leadership. Mike has a love for working with rural and small faith communities and is excited to get the opportunity to coach clergy and congregational leaders in the many facets of parish life.
Phone: 605-655-4241
Email: mnewago@midco.net
Anne Schnaare
Mthr. Anne Schnaare grew up in Wisconsin and studied music and theatre in college. After teaching private voice lessons for several years she answered God’s call to the priesthood, and earned a Master of Divinity at The University of the South in Sewanee, TN. She has been serving the people at Trinity Episcopal Church in Marshall, MI since 2011. She especially enjoys making connections in diverse cultural contexts, something she was able to do during her sabbatical in 2019 when she travelled to Germany, France, and Spain. She is looking forward to using her coaching skills to help people explore their creativity in God’s ministry.
Phone number: 269-425-0815
Email: anneschnaare@yahoo.com
Robin Woodberry
Formerly served 25 years as a Baptist Minister and am now a postulant for holy orders for the Episcopal Church in the diocese of Ohio. I know firsthand what it’s like to feel as if you’re going through your ministry and calling all alone. I hope to use my experience and coaching skills to help others rise above the things they face seemingly alone so they can be all that God has called them to be for the sake of themselves, the ministry and the world.
Phone: 330-506-6647
Email: robinw10@prodigy.net
Mary Henton
Mary coaches individuals and organizations who desire to lead with courage, compassion, and integrity. She earned her Associate Certified Coach designation through the International Coach Federation in 2021. However, she has been a coach, mentor, consultant, and teacher for more than 30 years. She has worked with clergy, lay leaders, school and university teachers and administrators, and other professionals across the US and internationally. Between 2009 and 2018, Mary worked with Congo Initiative and Université Chrétienne Bilingue du Congo in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She returned to central Ohio in 2018 and established MH Coaching & Consulting, LLC. In addition to coaching, Mary’s professional experience and knowledge include staff development; curriculum and instructional design; adult education; cross-cultural relationships; experiential and adventure learning; and Enneagram wisdom. Mary grew up in the evangelical tradition and became an Episcopalian as a young adult, drawn in by music, liturgy, and the BCP. She has served in lay leadership positions in the four parishes where she has been a member.
Phone: 614.531.7504
Email: mary@maryhenton.com
Website: https://maryhenton.com
David Clifford
David Clifford has had a long career in health services - in program development and management, and in academia as a senior administrator, professor, and leader on grant funded projects focused on developing the capacity and capabilities of community-based nonprofits. As an active member of the Episcopal church he has served multiple times as senior warden in two different parishes. Both of these parishes were partnerships, one with a Presbyterian Church, and the other with a Reformed Jewish congregation. At the diocesan level he has served on the Commission on Ministry. He has also served as a paid and unpaid consultant to three bishops. At the parish level he has worked on the design and facilitation of vestry and board retreats. In the community he has served as a volunteer, and board member for several nonprofits, and community coordinating bodies.
Phone: 734-476-4488
Email: dclifford@emich.edu
Tammy Prather
Where do you want to go in life? What are your hopes for the future of your church? Coaching is a process of listening, exploring and committing to making things happen. As your coach, Elizabeth will listen to you and ask the questions to help you move forward to the future you envision. Elizabeth is a life-long Episcopalian who has viewed the church from many vantage points: from inside the church office, the vestry, and program operations. She brings insight into complex systems, based on experience from a career in state government and public policy, university administration and teaching. She lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and is a member of St. Luke's, Ypsilanti.
Phone: 734-255-8439
Email: eadiethompson@gmail.com
Aaron Gerlach
The Rev. Aaron Gerlach is the rector of Old Trinity, Tiffin in the Diocese of Ohio. In his six years at that parish, they have been exploring new models of clergy leadership as well as building community relationships with the local food movement. Aaron grew up on a generational farm in rural South Dakota (near the Corn Palace if you have heard of that). Before becoming a priest, he was a public school math teacher and IT specialist.
Phone: 815-441-1333
Email: revgerlach@gmail.com
Carol Mader
Carol has been an active ordained minister, a community college teacher and advisor, and community volunteer for over 35 years. She currently serves as a parish priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan and as an Academic Advisor at Lansing Community College (a “global village where she teaches life”). She has Master of Divinity and Master of Personality Theory and Religion degrees, and is currently completing her thesis for the Doctor of Ministry. Carol has done professional work in family systems, conflict resolution, and congregational redevelopment, among other training. Carol’s coaching philosophy is to help clients (individuals or teams) realize and actualize their goals. You and she will talk about “where you are now” and what is your project or life calling you to be and do? What is your “next best faithful step forward”? And how will you take those steps? You can do this meaningful work with a coach by your side. In her spare time, Carol loves reading, yard work, trail hiking, and rock collecting.
Phone: 517-449-8951
Email: revcm2010@gmail.com
Mike Newago *
Fr. Mike is a Franciscan Friar of the Community of Francis and Clare and the Priest-in-Charge of St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Havana, Illinois, and also the Mission Strategy Developer for the Episcopal Diocese of Springfield. He is married and has one daughter who is a college student. Mike enjoys helping clergy and congregations navigate mission work and congregational development and leadership and is currently a doctoral student in transformational leadership. Mike has a love for working with rural and small faith communities and is excited to get the opportunity to coach clergy and congregational leaders in the many facets of parish life.
Phone: 605-655-4241
Email: mnewago@midco.net
Anne Schnaare
Mthr. Anne Schnaare grew up in Wisconsin and studied music and theatre in college. After teaching private voice lessons for several years she answered God’s call to the priesthood, and earned a Master of Divinity at The University of the South in Sewanee, TN. She has been serving the people at Trinity Episcopal Church in Marshall, MI since 2011. She especially enjoys making connections in diverse cultural contexts, something she was able to do during her sabbatical in 2019 when she travelled to Germany, France, and Spain. She is looking forward to using her coaching skills to help people explore their creativity in God’s ministry.
Phone number: 269-425-0815
Email: anneschnaare@yahoo.com
Robin Woodberry
Formerly served 25 years as a Baptist Minister and am now a postulant for holy orders for the Episcopal Church in the diocese of Ohio. I know firsthand what it’s like to feel as if you’re going through your ministry and calling all alone. I hope to use my experience and coaching skills to help others rise above the things they face seemingly alone so they can be all that God has called them to be for the sake of themselves, the ministry and the world.
Phone: 330-506-6647
Email: robinw10@prodigy.net
Mary Henton
Mary coaches individuals and organizations who desire to lead with courage, compassion, and integrity. She earned her Associate Certified Coach designation through the International Coach Federation in 2021. However, she has been a coach, mentor, consultant, and teacher for more than 30 years. She has worked with clergy, lay leaders, school and university teachers and administrators, and other professionals across the US and internationally. Between 2009 and 2018, Mary worked with Congo Initiative and Université Chrétienne Bilingue du Congo in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She returned to central Ohio in 2018 and established MH Coaching & Consulting, LLC. In addition to coaching, Mary’s professional experience and knowledge include staff development; curriculum and instructional design; adult education; cross-cultural relationships; experiential and adventure learning; and Enneagram wisdom. Mary grew up in the evangelical tradition and became an Episcopalian as a young adult, drawn in by music, liturgy, and the BCP. She has served in lay leadership positions in the four parishes where she has been a member.
Phone: 614.531.7504
Email: mary@maryhenton.com
Website: https://maryhenton.com
David Clifford
David Clifford has had a long career in health services - in program development and management, and in academia as a senior administrator, professor, and leader on grant funded projects focused on developing the capacity and capabilities of community-based nonprofits. As an active member of the Episcopal church he has served multiple times as senior warden in two different parishes. Both of these parishes were partnerships, one with a Presbyterian Church, and the other with a Reformed Jewish congregation. At the diocesan level he has served on the Commission on Ministry. He has also served as a paid and unpaid consultant to three bishops. At the parish level he has worked on the design and facilitation of vestry and board retreats. In the community he has served as a volunteer, and board member for several nonprofits, and community coordinating bodies.
Phone: 734-476-4488
Email: dclifford@emich.edu
Tammy Prather
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