While attending Samford University, I felt a strong calling from God to become a coach. Initially, I thought that meant being a football coach, but God had a different plan in mind. After several years of coaching high school football and track, I found myself drawn to the world of startups and entrepreneurship. Even then, I was still searching for clear direction in my career, so I turned to coaching for help in defining my personal vision. 

This experience was transformative, leading me into people operations where I guided hiring, onboarding, and engagement efforts for a market research startup. Inspired by the impact my coach had on me, I pursued training through an ICF-accredited coaching program and eventually launched Anchor Coaching.

Through Anchor Coaching, my vision is to increase business ministries across the globe. My mission is to amplify resources to share the Gospel by coaching and equipping entrepreneurs. To date, I’ve coached hundreds of entrepreneurs, helping them improve productivity for themselves and their teams. Additionally, as a Startups.com Advisor, I lead weekly cohorts of founders, helping them launch and scale their startups.

Intrapreneurial Leader Groups

Are you preparing for a more influential role as a leader and dreaming of making a real difference?

Most leaders face significant challenges alone, isolated from Christian peers that 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 lead up to or alongside your executive team, investors, or 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 alone is a recipe for frustration and burnout over time. As someone that aspires to grow their career and organization, it’s important to take care of yourself and develop as a leader both as an investment in yourself and your work.

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.” 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 from a biblical foundation. Intrapreneurial leaders learn to act decisively, problem-solve, innovate, and drive value from within larger organizations and companies instead of as a small business owner.

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 that manage a few million in revenue to over a billion through their Forum teams. These 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. As described below, Convene has multiple types of Intrapreneurial Leader groups. Some are designed for leaders growing teams within a larger organization and others are designed for succession planning.

WHY JOIN AN INTRAPRENEURIAL LEADER GROUP?

If your career has been anything like mine, you have likely had plenty of opportunities to get involved with other professionals through church or community organizations. 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. If you are looking for a high-impact group of Christian peers that can tackle complex business problems with you 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

• 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, also reducing isolation and improving life balance

• Be equipped and inspired towards greater integration of faith and purpose within business

• Process personal growth through bi-annual leadership assessments