Meet Jon
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.
Background & Experience
Sr. leadership in small to mega-church pastoral leadership
Sr. leadership teams of networks and denominations
Certified coaching educator
10+ years in professional leadership development roles
Executive leadership coach for business, non-profit,
and church
Business entrepreneur
Team assessment and development
Education & Training
Professional Certified Coach, International Coaching Federation
Grip-Birkman Certified Coach
19 years of Enneagram work
Certificate in Neuroscience of Coaching
Masters of Divinity
Let’s Chat
jon@LFTLeadership.com