Build More Leaders.
Design a leadership pipeline that fits your culture and forms leaders who form leaders.
The church is starving from a famine of leaders
and the typical ways of finding and developing them are not working anymore.
When you don’t have enough strong leaders…
Growth stalls because leadership capacity becomes the lid.
Faithful leaders burn out carrying more than they were meant to.
Culture weakens as fewer leaders are available to guard it.
Turnover rises when people aren’t led, cared for, or developed.
Development becomes reactive instead of intentional.
Discipleship becomes shallow rather than formative.
Even the simplest ministry functions become exhausting, requiring constant pushing.
You feel like you’re stuck in survival mode.
Design a Thriving Leadership Pipeline.
Over 4-5 months we’ll help you build a robust ecosystem for finding, forming, and deploying more strong leaders that perfectly fits your unique context.
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Before we design anything, we take time to deeply understand your church’s current leadership landscape.
This phase includes a simple assessment and discovery call. The process surfaces strengths, bottlenecks, blind spots, and assumptions around leadership development so the onsite work is focused, contextual, and grounded in reality.
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During a 2-day onsite intensive, we work with your leadership team to design a clear, custom leadership pipeline for your church.
Through teaching, discussion, and facilitated working sessions, together we build the framework, pathways, and tools needed to find, form, and deploy leaders over time.
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Designing the pipeline is only the beginning. Over the next 3–4 months, we walk alongside your team as you begin implementing what you’ve built.
Through monthly coaching calls and supporting resources, we help you overcome obstacles, refine the system, and execute your plan—so the pipeline actually takes root instead of staying on paper.
What you’ll walk away with:
A unified definition of leadership for your context
A shared understanding of what leadership actually means in your church, so everyone is working toward the same standard.
Clear, measurable leadership role descriptions
Leadership roles with defined expectations and outcomes so you can hold leaders accountable with clarity.
A potential leader profile (“Leadership Radar”)
Practical criteria for identifying emerging leaders early—and filtering out red flags and land mines.
A core skills and competencies framework
A clear picture of the spiritual, relational, and practical competencies leaders must develop to thrive in your world.
A leadership pipeline dashboard
A simple way to track where leaders are in the pipeline, what they’re being formed in, and what support they need next.
A robust development pathway
A customized pathway that prepares leaders not just to function, but to thrive, multiply, and build others.
A leadership culture plan
A strategy for making leadership aspirational, visible, and compelling—so gifted people want to step into leadership.
An integration plan for launch and sustainability
A clear plan for rolling out the pipeline and embedding it into the rhythms of your church so it lasts beyond the initial build.
They are event-based, rather than embedded in the culture and rhythms of the church.
They are reactive, responding to urgent gaps instead of building a deep bench for the future.
They are one-size-fits-all, rather than adaptable to individual strengths and opportunities.
They focus on content and curriculum, rather than on personal formation.
They rely primarily on classroom-style learning, instead of experiential learning through practice, relationship, and exposure.
They measure activity, rather than attending to who leaders are becoming.
They aim to meet immediate ministry needs, instead of developing people into their full potential.
They depend on a single leader or teacher, rather than being owned and sustained by the culture.
They are copied and pasted from somewhere else, rather than customized within the unique local context.
9 Reasons Why Most Leadership Pipelines Fail:
Effective leadership development takes a different approach. It is embedded in culture, designed proactively, focused on formation, and shared across the organization—so leadership development becomes who we are, not just something we do.
Start with a Free Pipeline Audit
A diagnostic call to assess your current leadership pipeline, identify gaps, and define practical next steps—no pressure.
YOUR GUIDE
As part of the leadership team at Elevation Church under Pastor Steven Furtick, I helped build leadership development systems that fueled growth across 23 campuses. I oversaw expansion, led and pastored campus pastors, and designed development pathways that turned volunteers into leaders, leaders into staff, and staff into high level managers.
For the past several years, I've been coaching churches and organizations across the country, helping them design formation strategies, grow doers into developers, and build development ecosystems that actually produce leaders.
I believe the church should be the greatest developer of people on earth. By integrating deep spiritual formation, learning psychology, and intuitive systems, it can be.
-Greg Basch
Trusted by 100+ leaders and churches around the world.
“Greg's relational approach and firsthand ministry experience were invaluable to our team. His leadership helped us refine our systems and structures. We are better because of his insight.”
Marcus Mecum — Lead Pastor, 7 Hills Church
"Greg develops your leaders to be people developers themselves. This produces a culture of development and brings incredible strength and resiliency to your organization."
Josh Blackson — Executive Partner, True Homes
"Greg uses great questions, personalized strategies, and an understanding of executive challenges to help you become more than a replica of another organization, but a reflection of who God made you to be."
Jaime Goldenberg — Lead Pastor, Transformation Church
