Welcome to Leadership Coaching with Tom Nees

This is a rewarding highly personalized approach to lifetime leadership development.  Leaders and leadership teams, like athletes can improve with a coach who can help them take leadership to the next level – with the rewards of leadership that are more than positional authority, wealth or status.

My vision is to coach you to a healthy leadership style that will help you meet your goals and become a learning leader whatever your assignment or life’s work.

As your personal leadership coach I will get a detailed picture of where you are currently and where you would like to be.   A leadership development plan, specific to your individual needs will be developed.   You will receive encouragement, motivation, as well as practical advice and information about improving your leadership skills.

I coach a wide range of leaders as individuals and teams including beginners who want to get started right to seasoned veterans who want to finish strong.   Whether you have become frustrated with your effectiveness or want to become more successful, I can help you.  I enjoy coaching and am prepared to listen and make myself available.

What to Expect From Coaching

  • Feedback and guidance in real time
  • Role definition – being the right kind of leader for specific situations
  • Leadership skill development to achieve performance goals
  • Preparation for a new assignment
  • Gender, ethnic and generational diversity management
  • Time management to enhance leadership performance
  • Leadership training resources
  • Unlimited email support, so you have 24/7 contact with me
  • Accountability and motivational support for progress
  • Regular monthly email newsletters and leadership blog
  • Really listen to you!  How often do you have that?

I take a holisitic approach to leadership coaching.  The most successful coaching occurs when the coach really knows the leader.    Leadership cannot be isolated from the rest of your life.   Leaders juggle family obligations and other responsibilities along with their work.   Together we identify your priorities and come up with a plan to optimize the time you devote to your personal leadership development.   We will set goals and create a plan to help you get there.

The Cost of Your Own Leadership Coach

The initial consultation is free.   We will set a time to speak to one another for an hour, or even a day.   This will give us a chance to discuss your goals and my approach to leadership and coaching.   If we agree to a coaching agreement we will continue face-to-face contact as well as conversation by phone and email.

Fees are negotiated dependant upon the agreed number and scope of assessments as well as the amount of time devoted to interviews and preparing a 360 multi-rater feedback report.

My fee schedule is available upon request.


Vision

  • Started Leading to Serve in 2007 as a means to advance leadership consulting and coaching in nonprofit and faith-based communities.
  • Leading to Serve, Inc., is a learning community of executives and leaders pursuing personal and professional development.

Core leadership values

  • A personal leadership development path leads to strategic effectiveness
  • Investing in others is the critical element of extraordinary leadership

Experience

  • Has been an executive and leadership development consultant/coach in the nonprofit and faith-based world for over 35 years.
  • Since 1975 as the founding director of the Community of Hope, a low-income neighborhood organization in Washington, DC, he has been involved in identifying as well as creating opportunities for others to serve as volunteers and leaders in their own neighborhoods.
    1973 – Founding board member of Jubilee Housing in Washington, DC
    1975 – Founder and executive director of the Community of Hope
    1985 – Developed Nazarene Compassionate Ministries, USA/Canada
    1990 – Organized the Institute for Racial Reconciliation
    1992 – Created Nazarene Disaster Response, USA/Canada
  • As the first director of Nazarene Compassionate Ministries, USA/Canada he designed organizational development resources, including leadership training for over 200 neighborhood-based organizations now located in every major US and Canada urban center with a combined budget of over $25 million.
  • In 1995 he became a director at the International Center of the Church of the Nazarene with responsibilities for leadership development for more than 5,000 parish clergy and judicatory leaders.
  • In 2005 he became an advisory member of FASTEN, the Faith and Service Technical Education Network for the National Crime Prevention Council.  FASTEN is funded by the PEW Charitable Trust as part of a $6 million program to provide training and technical assistance to faith-based organizations.

Published books and lectures

  • Compassion Evangelism – 1997
  • The Changing Face of the Church – 1997
  • Best Practices of Growing Churches – 2007
  • Lectures on Social Justice – 2007