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Chad Hall is a Professional Certified Coach who has applied coaching in a variety of contexts as a church planter and pastor, as a denominational consultant, and as an executive coach within a successful software company. He enjoys coaching ministry leaders, teams, and individuals preparing for coaching credentialing. In 2009, he joined Western Seminary as Director of Coaching after teaching as an adjunct coaching professor since the program began in 2005.
Chad is the co-author of Coaching for Christian Leaders: A Practical Guide (2007, Chalice Press) and more than thirty articles on topics related to ministry leadership, coaching, church and culture, and postmodern ministry. He is currently completing a coaching book for ministry leaders addressing spiritual growth.
Chad is a graduate of Lenoir-Rhyne College (B.A.), Duke Divinity School (M.T.S.),
and Princeton Seminary (Th.M.). He is also a graduate of The Coaches Training Institute, a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), a member of the International Coach Federation, and serves on the board of Christian Coaching Magazine. He currently lives in North Carolina with his wife Holly and their three young children. Chad can be reached at chall@westernseminary.edu.
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Chad Hall, P.C.C.
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Linda Miller believes that successful organizations are supported by strong internal dynamics. Before becoming a coach, Linda worked for 12 years in the behavioral science field, specializing in building productive and collaborative relationships typically dealing with major sources of conflict. Today, Linda is known as an executive coach and facilitator. Her clients include leaders and teams from Alltel, Black and Decker, Boeing, Deloitte, Disney, Duke Energy, Franklin Templeton, KPMG, Newell Rubbermaid, Nissan, Otsuka, and WD40. She has delivered coach training at career resource centers affiliated with Thunderbird, the University of Washington and USC's MBA programs.
Currently, Linda serves as an Executive Coach and Global Liaison for Coaching with The Ken Blanchard Companies. She is a founding recipient of the Master Certified Coach designation from the International Coach Federation and has served on their board.
In the not-for-profit arena, Linda and her husband have served on several church staffs, and Linda has coached a number of senior pastors and denominational leaders. In June 2009, Linda was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Western Seminary based on her contribution to the Christian coaching community.
Linda lives and golfs in Phoenix, AZ with her husband. They have two married daughters.
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Linda Miller, M.C.C.
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James Warrick is an experienced Coach and Coach Trainer. He has a Masters in Coaching and has been on staff at a church as a Pastor of Spiritual Growth. James owns a coaching company, www.takeflightcoaching.org that coaches professionals, leaders, entrepreneurs, and people who want more for their life and ministry. James teaches at Western Seminary’s Coaching program and trains ministry and business leaders in the skills of coaching. He is credentialed with the International Coaching Federation and is energized by helping individuals find clarity, discover God’s direction, and move forward in action. James lives in Portland, Oregon with his sweet wife and 3 incredible kids. |
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At the age of 19, Jane Creswell felt called by God to be a missionary to the business world. Since then, her prayer has been to fully integrate her faith into all aspects of her life, particularly her business endeavors, and to be intentional in her efforts to reach out to corporate employees. She is passionate about partnering with leaders to help them lead from a faith perspective. She takes an active role in her church in small group Bible study and leading efforts to focus on reaching the unchurched.
In recent years, Jane leveraged 17 years of product development and management experience at IBM to invent the role of “Organization Coach” and become the founder of IBM Coaches Network, a group that now consists of 300+ coaches across 26 countries. At IBM, she focused her organization on achieving extraordinary results by individual coaching of the leaders at all levels of the organization.
Jane utilizes those experiences to help organizations wanting to foster a coaching culture. Much of her work is with leaders who want to make the high impact transition from merely influencing others to developing excellent leaders who develop excellent leaders. She agrees with describing excellent leaders as “those who embody deep personal humility and fierce resolve, influencing success which is felt long after they move on”.
As an International Coach Federation (ICF) Master Certified Coach (MCC), Jane enjoys speaking at conferences to inspire other corporate coaches and corporate employees and has spoken in the US, Canada, Europe and Japan. Multiple articles have been published about her internal coaching work including recent ones in HR Magazine and TIME Magazine. In the last several years Jane has served as an adjunct faculty member of Western Seminary where she helped develop and launch the Coaching Program. She is currently working as the Director of Purdue University’s Organizational Leadership Development Lab.
Jane is married to her college sweetheart, has two teenage sons and enjoys quilting and travel. |
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Steve Stratos brings a wealth of experience both as a Pastor and Coorporate Executive. For over 25 years Steve has been involved with a variety of local churches as church planter, senior, associate, and interim pastor. He has also been involved as a consultant with the local church helping them to make transitions in leadership and the developing of strategic plans. He loves to help people and has a passion for creating healthy churches. He also provides coaching for staff and guests of the Portland Rescue Mission.
Steve attended Middlebury College, Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary where he received an MDiv., and Western Seminary where he received his Doctorate of Ministry.
Steve is both Senior Consultant of Wellspring Group, http://www.wellspring-group.com and VP of Business Development at Qmedtrix www.qmedtrix.com . He also functions as coach to the Qmedtrix Executive Team. He enjoys creating compelling and productive cultures within organizations. He consults with senior leaders – and their teams – regarding how to build and encourage healthy work environments, especially where the businesses are going through significant transition. Steve also has a passion for helping people move in the right direction through coaching.
He is a gifted communicator speaking to the hearts and minds of business leaders. His understanding of a values-driven style of leadership empowers others and brings greater productivity. Steve has considerable cross-cultural organizational experience.
He is also certified and is an expert in Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) technology – both in terms of that tool’s usefulness with individuals as well as team.
Has been married to Leslie for 38 years and has 4 adult children and two grandchildren. Steve loves to play basketball whenever and wherever he can. |
Steve Stratos, D.Min.
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