Empowering lasting transformation through executive coaching for Christian leaders and strategic consulting for mission-driven organizations.
Bio
I didn't come to this work from a consulting background. I came from the inside.
For years I've led All for One Ministries, a nonprofit serving the community in southeastern Indiana. I serve as an elder in a local church. I've sat in the chair you're sitting in — responsible for staff, accountable to a board, trying to hold together a mission and the people carrying it at the same time.
That experience drove me to do something I couldn't find anywhere else: build a leadership framework specifically for ministry leaders, grounded not in corporate management theory but in Scripture. My doctoral research at Liberty University examined how the biblical shepherd motif applies to parachurch executive leadership, and that research became the foundation for everything The Sefton Group does.
I hold a Ph.D. in Christian Leadership, a Master of Public Administration from Indiana Wesleyan University, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Indiana University. But the credential I trust most is this: I've led in the contexts you lead in, and I've built the tools to help you do it better.
I'm based in Greensburg, Indiana, with my wife Chay and our three kids. You'll usually find us spending time as a family, enjoying time outside, reading, or trying a new coffee shop.
Education
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Ph.D. in Christian Leadership - Liberty University (Dissertation: Leading Like Christ: A Phenomenological Study of the Biblical Shepherd Motif in Christian Parachurch Executive Leadership)
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MPA in Nonprofit Leadership - Indiana Wesleyan University
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BS in Business Administration - Indiana University
Experience
Experience
My experience spans the full range of Christian organizational life — founding and leading a nonprofit, running a marketing agency serving churches and small businesses, serving on community foundation grant committees, and sitting in the elder board meeting on Sunday morning.
That breadth is intentional. The leaders I serve don't fit neatly into one box, and neither do I. What connects all of it is a commitment to the same thing: helping mission-driven organizations function as well on the inside as they aspire to on the outside.
My favorite conversations
The conversations I look forward to most are the honest ones — the leader who's trying to figure out whether they're in the right role, the executive director who suspects the gap between their stated culture and their actual culture has gotten too wide, the pastor who has built something significant and is quietly running out of steam.
If any of these are questions for you, we should talk:
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How do I lead in a way that doesn't cost me my health, my family, or my faith over time?
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What does the data actually say about how my organization is functioning — and does my team experience match my leadership perception?
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How do I build a team that can carry the mission without everything depending on me?
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What does faithful, strategic growth look like for a ministry that doesn't want to become a corporation?
How I Help Leaders
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Lead with greater clarity, sustainability, and Kingdom purpose
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Build teams that trust each other and move in the same direction
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Assess and strengthen organizational health from the inside out
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Develop mission, vision, and values that actually shape culture
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Navigate board relationships, strategic planning, and organizational growth
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Build marketing and communications systems that serve the mission