Faith is a category, not a relationship
Prayer is on the list. It has the emotional texture of checking email. You could still teach the class.
Christian Executive Coaching for High-Performing Professionals
Brian BachmanExecutive Coach · MA, LPC
Success and faith should not have to live in separate compartments. For most Christian leaders, they do.
You still believe everything you believed. You just notice that faith shapes your Sunday and not your hiring decisions, your money, or the way you spoke to your wife last night. That is not hypocrisy. It is what happens when professional formation accelerates for twenty years and spiritual formation quietly does not. I am a Covenant Theological Seminary graduate, a licensed counselor with ten years of clinical practice, and an executive coach, and this is the work I care about most.
Does this sound like you?
Publicly faithful. Privately unsure whether the life you are building reflects what you say matters most.
Achievement has become your security
You have not needed rescue in a decade. Somewhere in there, you stopped asking. Competence quietly replaced dependence.
Your best attention goes elsewhere
A pie chart of last week’s mental energy would show work, money, and problems as most of the pie and God as a sliver. You know this without drawing it.
Home receives the leftovers
You lead impressively in public. Your spouse and kids get impatience, absence, or exhaustion, and Christian language does not cover it.
Rest feels like disobedience to your drive
You believe in Sabbath and cannot take one. The gap between the theology you would defend and the life you live is where the distance is.
You cannot name a mission bigger than your wealth
If you cannot, you are probably serving the system more than the kingdom. You suspect this. You have not said it out loud.
What this coaching is
Not pastoral counseling disguised as executive coaching. Not executive coaching with a verse attached.
When it is your goal, the work integrates Scripture, prayer, vocation, marriage, stewardship, and formation directly. It also does the psychological work most Christian coaching skips: finding the old files that say rest must be earned or disagreement means rejection, because those files run your spiritual life whether you have named them or not. Faith does not make personality, family systems, or avoidance disappear. It gives you a reason to face them.
I bring a whiteboard. When your complaints are drawn out and the loop appears, from an old fear to a leadership habit to a quiet marriage to a thin prayer life, most leaders see for the first time that they have one problem, not five. That is where formation actually starts.
A story I see often
An elder felt like a fraud at church. He had not prayed honestly in three years.
Details changed. His faith had been formed in a season of real need, early in the company, when he did not know if payroll would clear. God had been vivid then. Twenty years later he had not been afraid of anything in a decade, and he described it as feeling like God had moved out. When we looked closely, God had not moved. He had.
The work was not more devotions. It was formation: looking at what actually shaped his decisions, his money, and his marriage, and finding the file that said he was only safe while producing. As it loosened, something he had not felt in years came back. Not a mountaintop. Just the sense that he was not alone in the room.
How an engagement starts
Four steps from “something is off” to a plan you can actually run.
A 20-minute call about fit
You tell me what is actually going on. I tell you honestly whether it is the kind of problem I help with, and whether coaching or clinical care is the right door. No pitch, and no pressure to decide on the call.
We pick the right depth
One defined problem is Focused Coaching. A problem that crosses work and home is Integrated Coaching. If you want a full working model of how you operate, that is Private Advisory. I will tell you which one fits, including when the answer is the cheaper one.
I build the map
Integrated and Private Advisory engagements start with assessment and a written synthesis: strengths, blind spots, the patterns connecting your complaints, and the two or three leverage points that will change the most. See a sample Whole-Person Profile
We test it against real life
Meetings roughly every other week. Between them you run specific experiments: a conversation you have been avoiding, a decision, a boundary, a different response under pressure. The map gets corrected by what actually happens.
Three depths of engagement
The engagement should match the problem, not force every client through the same process.
Focused Coaching
$2,750 · 2 months
One defined problem, four private meetings, specific experiments between them, and a written continuation plan. For people who already know what needs attention.
Integrated Coaching
$4,500 · 4 months
Most clients start here. A problem that crosses several areas of life, a targeted whole-person assessment, a written synthesis, eight meetings, and a check-in between them.
Private Advisory
$7,800 · 6 months
A comprehensive Whole-Person Profile, twelve meetings, priority access, optional spouse perspective, and a final synthesis of what changed. For a select few who want the full model.
“Through Brian’s wisdom and direction, we’ve recalibrated my home life. Our family has never been so close. Instead of repeating generational failure, we’re fixing it.”
Questions
What people usually want to know before they book.
How is this different from talking to my pastor?
Your pastor knows the theology and knows you as a member. I bring seminary training plus a decade of clinical practice, which means I can look at the psychological patterns underneath your spiritual life, and I am not inside your church, which makes some things easier to say.
Is this for pastors too?
Yes. Pastors of large churches carry a specific kind of isolation and performance pressure, and several of the people I work with lead congregations. The confidentiality is complete.
Do you coach people who are not Christians?
Yes. Faith is integrated when it matters to the client and left out when it does not. This page is for those who want it central. Whole-person coaching is the pathway for everyone else.
Is this therapy or spiritual direction?
Neither. It is coaching, under a coaching agreement, organized around formation, patterns, decisions, and practice. My clinical license means I will tell you if what you describe belongs in therapy first.
Where do I start?
The spiritual formation assessment is a private, in-browser reflection that takes a few minutes. Or book the call.
Keep reading
Related pages.
Private whole-person coaching
If your success has outpaced your formation, the next season of growth is not about doing more. It is about becoming someone.
A 20-minute private conversation. No pitch. We look at what has been shaping you and decide together whether this is the right work at the right time.
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