Some leaders look for reassurance more than reality.
I'm not the right consultant for them.
I work with leaders who are accountable to something larger than results — and who understand that genuine organizational health requires the kind of honesty that is often avoided in consulting.
If you want to see your situation more clearly, have the difficult conversations you've been avoiding, and build the kind of organizational health that actually lasts — I can help.
Who This Is For
You might be the right fit if —
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You want honest diagnosis more than comfortable validation.
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You care about the people in your organization — as people, not performance variables.
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You're facing a difficult conversation you've been avoiding.
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You're navigating a significant leadership transition.
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You're building something that stands for something — and you want the way you operate to actually reflect it.
We're probably not the right fit if you're unwilling to examine how leadership, culture, or systems may be contributing to problems. Or if you are looking for someone to confirm what you already think, control how your organization looks from the outside, or help you look good without doing the harder work of actually getting better.
How I Work With Leaders
Executive Coaching is for the individual leader. My first responsibility is to understand how you see your situation before we build out any plan. From there, we work one-on-one to develop the self-awareness, relational clarity, and decision-making capacity that your role actually requires. That means honest examination of how you lead, how you communicate, and what's getting in the way — including things that may be uncomfortable to look at. The work is tailored to you: your context, your blind spots, your specific challenges — and goes as deep as you are willing to go, including the questions about values, accountability, and whether what you're building actually reflects what you say you care about.
Organizational Consulting is for the system. I work with leadership teams and organizations to diagnose what's actually happening beneath the surface — culture, communication, structure, alignment between stated values and lived reality. I don’t optimize around dysfunction — I help you understand what’s actually happening and determine what can be addressed now. Most organizations can’t fix everything at once, so the work is not perfection — it’s honest progress within real constraints, prioritizing what actually moves things forward. I help you address issues at the root — which sometimes means naming what the organization has been carefully avoiding to help you decide how to move forward within real constraints.
Both tracks start from the same conviction: that genuine health requires honest diagnosis, and that the people in your organization deserve leadership that takes honest diagnosis seriously.
You remain responsible for your decisions. My role is to help you see clearly enough to make them with integrity.
How The Work Typically Unfolds
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Understand your perspective and context — how you see the situation, what you’re navigating, and what’s at stake.
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Surface what’s not being said — the dynamics, tensions, or misalignments that are easy to miss or avoid.
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Clarify what’s actually happening — separating signal from noise so you can see the situation accurately.
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Decide how to move forward — working with you to determine what action is required and how to take it.
The diagnosis and clarity aren't the end of the work — it's the beginning of making clear, grounded decisions about how to move forward.
How I'm Different
I understand the difference between the loyalty that protects an organization from accountability and the higher loyalty that holds it accountable because you care too much to let it drift.
Most organizational consulting optimizes for effectiveness. My work goes deeper — to the question of what genuine health actually requires for the person doing the leading and the people affected by it.
My work is shaped by three areas that are often developed separately: nearly a decade in finance, graduate training in organizational leadership and executive coaching, and a theological formation that shapes how I understand institutions, accountability, and what human dignity actually requires in organizational life. These aren't separate tracks. They inform each other constantly — and I work from that integration, where organizational reality and the deeper questions of what an organization is actually for meet.
For leaders of churches and faith-based organizations, that necessary integration runs particularly deep — and its absence poses a specific challenge: the gap between stated gospel commitments and lived institutional reality, which reveals both an organizational failure and a theological wound. Many consultants focus on either the organizational dimension or the theological dimension. This work takes both seriously at the same time. [Learn more about Church & Ministry Leadership work]
“I had the pleasure of working with Joshua during a pivotal moment in my career, and I cannot recommend him highly enough. His unique ability to provide an outside perspective was invaluable. He offered insightful guidance that helped me navigate some challenging situations within the workplace with newfound confidence and clarity.
What truly set Joshua apart was his unwavering support and tailored direction. I left each meeting feeling like I had just been shot out of a cannon — energized, motivated, and ready to tackle any challenge. His inspiration and strategic support were instrumental in helping me overcome obstacles and achieve my goals. If you're looking for a coach or consultant who combines insightful analysis with genuine support, Joshua is the person to see.”
— Brian Heitman, Director of Audience and Email Strategy at Rodman Media
About Me
Music is integrated into how I think. The same instinct that hears what's really happening in a song hears what's really happening in an organization — both require listening for what's actually going on rather than what's most comfortable to acknowledge. That integration isn't just a conviction I bring to client work — it's one I've demonstrated publicly, in sustained engagement with the institutional and theological questions I find most important.
Underneath my finance background and the graduate training is a theological formation that is the foundation of all of it — not an addition to the work but the source of it. It's what shapes what I think genuine health requires, what I think people deserve from their leaders, and what I'm willing to say when the honest answer is uncomfortable.
“Joshua worked with one of our employees as an Executive Coach and completely blew away our expectations. Through the coaching, our employee could delegate more effectively, restructure his department and take on new and important workloads. I could not recommend Joshua more highly. Every step of the way Joshua kept me up to date ... The skills and mentorship he provided will be useful for years to come ... If you get the opportunity to work with Joshua, take it! The personal approach and care Joshua takes is truly worth it.”
— James Zilenziger, COO at Rodman Media
Working Together
My services are tailored to each client's specific situation and goals. I partner with individual leaders through executive coaching and with organizations through consulting engagements. I provide a proposal after an initial conversation where we both assess whether the work makes sense for both of us.
Engagements vary by client and context but I work on retainer or by project. Due to the depth of work, most project engagements will be at least 3-6 months. Executive coaching typically involves regular one-on-one sessions — weekly or biweekly — over a defined period, with the cadence and length determined by what the work actually requires. Organizational consulting engagements are scoped based on the specific challenge or initiative. Most work happens remotely, with in-person engagement available for clients in Austin or when the work calls for it. Everything starts with an honest conversation about fit and scope before any commitment is made.
I primarily work through referrals. If someone whose judgment you trust suggested you reach out — that's the best possible starting point for a conversation.
Most initial conversations are simply an opportunity to understand your situation and determine whether the work makes sense — not anything beyond that.