A fervent empowerer of people, Beth is a lifelong advocate for ensuring individuals have the right seat on the organizational bus. She loves to ask hard questions and facilitate crucial conversations that leaders know need to happen but are often too concerned with “being liked” to kickstart themselves.
Beth believes deeply that personal and professional development are not clichés; rather, they work hand in hand with spiritual development and who God created us each to be. She is tenacious – and inspires others to show up authentically to enrich their teams, organizations, missions, and bottom lines.
Beth is deeply strategic and results-oriented. She held a highly successful corporate consultancy position for the first twenty-five years of her career, with a strong track record of change leadership and business performance in organizations ranging from one location to Fortune 100 companies. She helped restructure foundations, strategies, and processes - starting with the people who show up to do the work every day. From CEOs and business owners to C and mid-level management, Beth champions best practice execution by helping others lead a culture of authenticity, focus, transparency, accountability, and transformational improvement.
After leaving her consultancy career, Beth became the Chief Advancement Officer and interim CEO at a $30m non-profit organization, where she led a team of 18 people, sat on the Executive Leadership Team, and increased revenue by 20% YoY. She now serves as a Senior Strategist for an agency primarily focused on worldwide NPOs and consults in that role with Ph.D. researchers who conduct work at the intersection of God and humanity. She is a recognized expert in the content services field and speaks not only within corporate client organizations but also at industry conferences. While Beth has an exceptionally strong business process acumen, she also has an exceptional ability to teach, mentor, and increase output among teams. Few things are more professionally fulfilling to her than inspiring change and motivating leaders to implement unapologetic structures and execute winning strategies – all while bridging the gap between expectations and reality.
Beth writes at length about managing expectations in her best-selling Christian-published book, Remorseless: Learning to Lose Labels, Expectations, and Assumptions—Without Losing Yourself, and speaks frequently on this topic, including as a member of the C-Suite for Christ’s Speakers Bureau and as a guest preacher within several churches. Beth holds two master’s degrees in theology and founded her own consulting company, Fisher Strategic. She also holds a Certified Holistic Coaching Accreditation and is a contributing writer to various publications, including Street Smart, a bi-monthly newsletter for Christian missions around the country, and TransplantNATION, a magazine printed six times a year that works to connect and support the growing audience in the United States who are in the organ donation and transplantation world.
As a leukemia survivor, Beth had a life-saving Bone Marrow Transplant in 1999. That experience is what deepened her relationship with Jesus to the point today - unwavering in her faith and determined to show up alongside others on their personal and professional journeys.
Areas of Expertise
Organizational Structure
Culture
Change Management
Increasing Revenue and Gross Profit Margins
Sales & Marketing
Strategic Operations
Business Process Automation
Team Dynamics
Succession Planning
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Testimonials
“Plain and simple, Beth understands business. She is honest in her delivery and knows how to connect the dots, even when it’s hard to hear or unrecognizable to others. As a business owner, relying on Beth as a confidant to weigh out business decisions has been a tremendous asset to our success.”
Terrence Lowis
CEO of Chief Reality Office
“Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things. If there’s a way to describe Beth Fisher, she is the embodiment of this quote by Theodore Levitt. Not only in the way she is able to creatively establish the “new normal” with whatever challenge you have, but also in a way that she takes creative ideas and walks them through a brick wall (with grace) to become reality. She is a visionary, but more importantly, she is an innovator. If Beth is guiding you towards a certain destination, even if you don’t yet have a vision for it, it’s more than likely the place you need to go.”
Charles Lewis
Strategic Accounts Director, Virtuous
"It was wonderful to watch community develop as leaders who may not have otherwise connected shared openly and encouraged each other. People were advocating for each other and asking hard questions together. There’s no doubt in my mind that a unique sense of community was created during this time together that would not have evolved otherwise."
Robin Nawrocki
Associate Director
“I’ve always had a respect and admiration for Beth. I knew that if I were to receive coaching, I wanted it to come from someone just like her – driven and successful, but with a character full of grace, love, and respect.”
Erika Mariglia
Nonprofit Leader
“Beth is inspiring and amazing; she is the most relatable down to earth person I have met in a long time. Her insight, knowledge and wisdom are a breath of fresh air. Sometimes it helps hearing someone else share the thoughts and perspective we dare not share, without fear or judgment. The sessions brought our members closer together as a whole. It felt good to connect, share, and relate to one another in a vulnerable and real way. If you have ever thought you or your employees could benefit from team building for a higher level of performance and to make work fun & enjoyable again, I highly recommend Beth Fisher!”
Jen Dilbeck
Senior Director Operations, Moore
"Our organization is going through a reinvention, and we have a variety of team members from varying backgrounds who are learning to work together in a completely remote environment. To say that we had a serious need to develop community is an understatement, and we found it in our sessions with Beth.”
Chelsea Elsaesser
Director, Moore
“The people that will tell you not what you want to hear but what you NEED to hear are the ones you should listen to. Beth is that person. She is not afraid to have difficult conversations with you because she has your best interest at heart and knows you can achieve more.”
Shannon Luther
Corporate HR Manager, Meijer
Intrapreneurial Leader Groups
Are you preparing for a more influential role as a leader and seeking to make a real difference while empowering others along the way?
Most leaders face significant challenges alone, isolated from their Christian peers who intimately understand the pressures of business leadership or ownership. Our leadership development process brings leaders together to face those challenges in community. We provide time-tested peer group experiences and executive coaching to accelerate their personal and professional growth so that they can have a redemptive impact on their business, direct reports, clients, and community.
Your role as a leader in your organization comes with significant challenges.
How do you deal with imposter syndrome?
How do you lead up to or alongside your executive team, investors, and partners?
How do you gain familiarity with areas of expertise outside of your own?
How do you drive profitability for your organization or business?
Facing these challenges alone is a recipe for frustration and burnout over time. As someone who aspires to grow your career and organization, it’s important to take care of yourself and develop as a well-rounded leader—both as an investment in yourself and your work. Growth and transformation take time, but throughout the course of any career, the best time is spent within the company of other trusted leaders facing similar seasons of life.
WHAT IS AN INTRAPRENEUR?
Whether leading a team within a large organization or leading a company as a small business owner, thinking like an entrepreneur is an incredible asset. As described by the Inc. article by Gene Hammett, “Employees with entrepreneurial mindsets are assets not threats to your company.” My experience is they are a valued asset. The point is to understand why someone operates as a “lone ranger” and someone else operates entirely differently. The most successful leaders and their teams value differences and strategically operate with both respect and joy within them.
Regardless of what role you have in an organization, the goal of our groups is to help you develop an entrepreneurial mindset that looks at the world through a Kingdom lens and a biblical foundation. Intrapreneurial leaders learn to act decisively, problem-solve, innovate, and execute from within larger organizations and companies instead of believing they have no pull.
WHAT IS AN INTRAPRENEURIAL LEADER GROUP?
Our Intrapreneurial Leader groups are designed to give Christian business leaders an opportunity for both spiritual and strategic community regardless of their role within an organization or how far along they are in the business life cycle. Historically, Convene has served CEOs who manage a few million to over a billion in revenue through its Forum teams. Intrapreneurial Leader groups represent the first time that Convene is opening the doors to a much wider audience, allowing leaders in varying stages of development and responsibility to find community, even if they do not meet the criteria for some of Convene’s original offerings.
WHY JOIN AN INTRAPRENEURIAL LEADER GROUP?
If your career has been anything like mine, you have likely had plenty (sometimes, annoyingly so) of opportunities to get involved with other professionals through networks, groups, or other social arrangements. However, these opportunities never allowed you to solve intense business challenges with peers who understood the struggles of business leadership. If you are just looking for a community of Christian peers, there are plenty of options out there and I would be happy to help connect you with them. But if you are looking for a high-impact group of Christian peers that can tackle complex business problems beyond surface level and push you to the next level of your leadership and business, then these groups are for you.
INTRAPRENEURIAL LEADERS JOIN CONVENE TO:
Build capacity for stronger leadership and expanded roles and influence
Leverage best practices for organizational excellence, greater profitability & faster growth for their businesses, clients, and direct reports
Connect to a high-capacity peer group to work through “tough issues” in a risk-free, non-judgmental & confidential environment
Receive executive coaching and leadership development while reducing isolation and improving life balance
Be equipped and inspired towards greater integration of faith and purpose within business…and life
Process personal growth through bi-annual leadership assessments
Beth’s Groups
MEET ONLINE AND ARE: LEADERS WITHIN LARGE ORGANIZATIONS
FOCUS
Leaders who join this group hold significant influence in their organizations and want to build their capacity for stronger leadership. In the future, it is very likely that these leaders will end up in expanded roles within their department or organizations, which is why our group focuses heavily on self-awareness and learning to think like a CEO. This group focuses on leading redemptively and sacrificially stewarding our roles to advance the Kingdom. In adopting a mission-driven worldview and sound business strategies, the leaders in this group will support each other as they drive impact in their organizations. This group has a heavy focus on leadership development, people development, team development, and other organizational development topics—specifically strategy and operational efficiency. Members in this group will develop an entrepreneurial mindset that helps them lead their teams more effectively, drive higher profitability for their organizations, and provide change management during seasons of growth.
IDEAL MEMBER
Rising talent and team leaders with direct reports or training to take over managing others
Desires to develop a deeper strategic and visionary mindset and innovate from within an organization to improve profitability, service delivery, and impact
Is coachable, humble, vulnerable and hungry, and ascribes to the “if you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together” mindset
Potential titles could include President, COO, General Manager, Supervisor, Director of Marketing, VP of Sales, Controller, Data Team Lead, HR Director, etc.
HERE ARE SOME OF THE COMMON CHALLENGES FACED BY MEMBERS IN THIS GROUP:
Leading up to the executive team
Operating on a non-effective executive leadership team
Staying motivated within a difficult culture or org structure
Innovating from within an organization
Managing multiple stakeholders
Finding time/life balance
Managing direct reports and building teams
Talent development and hiring practices (i.e. right seat on the bus)
KPIs to drive personal and team success
Execution of strategy
Integration of faith and business
Imposter syndrome
How are members selected?
In order to facilitate connection and relationships in a virtual setting, each of my Convene teams is limited to 15 members. Because of this, the process to become a member is highly selective. Most leaders will already be in leadership roles within their company, but we are open to having conversations with anyone who demonstrates a humility that attracts influence.
What is the meeting format?
My Intrapreneurial Group meets via Zoom for two hours of group coaching twice per month and each member receives 45 minutes of One2One™ coaching. All members also receive thousands of articles, videos, and tools for maximizing their Kingdom output in the workplace, including access to leadership assessments and additional coaching for their team.
About Convene
Convene’s mission is to connect, equip and inspire Christian CEOs and business owners to grow exceptional businesses and become higher-impact leaders to honor God. Through a community of peer-to-peer advisory teams, executive coaching and world-class consulting, we work with Christian CEOs and business owners to impact the Life of a Leader, leading to an ultimate Kingdom legacy.
We work together to enhance your business and life trajectory, while exploring where God is leading you. Convene provides ongoing business and leadership skill-development with access to One2One™ coaching and advisory teams, nationally-recognized speakers, and break-through content for continuous transformational learning. Particular attention is given to contributing wisdom, encouragement and accountability toward your goals for the purpose of achieving better results in all areas of your life.