Jon Hand, MDiv, PCC Lead Trainer

I live with my wife Aimee in Southern Ontario Canada where we have called home since 2015, after leaving our home in the U.S. We have three adulting children. I have been in church and business leadership roles for the past 27 years. In 2011, right before a season of life-altering burnout I was invited to take a training course in coaching skills. After a season of recovery, I realized how providential it was that I found coaching (or coaching found me). The art, skill, and application of coaching approaches helped me re-tool my leadership approach from a command and control paradigm to an non-anxious centered leadership that nurtures the unique gifts and genius of teams in the pursuit of daring vision. 

I was hooked! Since then I have been integrating coaching approaches into my varied leadership roles while also building a thriving professional coaching practice. 

Among other types of coaching I do, I have spent the last ten years developing a unique root level approach to Christian leadership called Soul Coaching where I guide leaders on a Year of Transformation. YoT guides leaders on a coaching journey to deepen the roots of their identity, character, and motivations in the person of Jesus of Nazareth so they can grow new shoots of competency and capacity;  bear powerful fruit that leaves whole communities rooted and flourishing. 

My disorienting season of burnout in my early-mid thirties birthed my life’s vocational pledge: to wake up every day to challenge, equip, and inspire leaders to lead from their own transformation.