Transform Your Leadership Skills with Our Exclusive Coaching Course
Our coaching course is designed to equip mission leaders with the skills and knowledge needed to excel in their roles. Learn from experienced coaches and network with peers.
Overview
Missio Nexus seeks to walk alongside leaders who have been in their role five-years or less. Our desire is to assist these CEOs in their adjustment to the new role, new team, and perhaps new organization. Leaders will be engaged both one-on-one by our OnBoard Coach and will also have the opportunity to interact as a group with other CEOs who are in similar positions.
Key Benefits for CEOs
- Enhanced Self-Leadership: Greater clarity on personal leadership priorities and rhythms for long-term sustainability.
- Strategic Financial Acumen: Increased confidence in reading and interpreting financial reports, enabling better decision-making.
- Clarity of Organizational Purpose: A refined and compelling articulation of the organization’s distinct value proposition and mission strategy.
- Improved Governance Skills: Practical frameworks and increased confidence in board engagement and governance responsibilities.
- Effective Donor Engagement: Tools for mapping and managing financial partner journeys, including levels of fundraising and the CEOs contribution.
- Innovation Readiness: Understanding of innovation tools, language, and process, and how to lead adaptive change within a missions context.
- Strategic Execution: A clearer process for developing and implementing strategic plans aligned with mission and organizational capacity.
- Peer Network Development: Deepened relationships with fellow CEOs, forming a trusted peer advisory network that continues past the cohort experience.
Goals
- Create smooth transitions from previous CEOs
- Encourage CEOs to be Spirit-led learners, team builders, and consensus builders
- Assist CEOs with time management and spiritual development
- Help new CEOs work together as a cohort to learn, ideate, and innovate
- Assist CEOs in building strong relationships with board members
To apply, please fill out the form at the bottom of the page.
Learning peer-to-peer from mutual challenges was a joy. Deepening relationship that allowed for mutual interaction outside of class time.
—CEO Global Outreach
Structure
The OnBoard program will launch each year with a new class of CEOs at the Missio Nexus Annual Mission Leaders Conference. Participants are requested to attend the fall conference, where specific time will be utilized in the schedule for the new group to interact with the OnBoard Coach and meet as a cohort. Following the conference, the individual CEOs will have the opportunity to interact via phone, email, and through an online virtual cohort group with each other and the OnBoard Coach.
Potential Topics for Interaction and Advising
The Leader – Understanding that the most strategic investment a CEO can make is in themselves, this session helps leaders build a foundation for sustainable, values-based leadership through guided reflection and actionable frameworks.
Organizational Purpose – Beyond mission, vision, values, this session helps clarify each organization’s unique value proposition, strategic distinctives, and case for partnership.
Financial Language – Designed for non-financial leaders, this session demystifies key financial statements (P&L, balance sheets), teaches how to “read the story behind the numbers,” and builds confidence in financial conversations.
Innovation – In a rapidly changing global environment, innovation is not optional. This session equips CEOs with a mindset and model for adaptive leadership, enabling them to drive meaningful change and experimentation.
Strategic Planning – Whether starting from scratch or refining an existing plan, this session offers principles and practices for developing, aligning, and executing strategy in a mission-driven context.
Fundraising and the CEO – CEOs must engage with diverse stakeholders, but financial partners are the key constituent that will require both skill and art. This session unpacks donor archetypes, introduces customer journey mapping, and defines the CEO’s role in donor cultivation and partner communication.
Governance – Navigating board relationships is one of the most critical, and often misunderstood, elements of CEO effectiveness. This session provides practical tools for building trust, clarity, and productive board engagement.
To apply, please fill out the form at the bottom of the page.
[It was] just SUPER helpful to be with other CEOs who are experiencing some of the same changes, circumstances, and challenges.
—CEO Life In Messiah
Dynamics
CEO OnBoard is designed for CEOs who are new to their role, up to five years in.
- Length: 9 months (September – May)
- Cohort Size: Maximum 10 participants
- Component Delivery Method: Cohort-based Distance Learning and In-Person Sessions
Cohort-based Distance Learning and In-Person Sessions Include:
- Executive Coaching (Virtual): 3 session at 1-1.5 hours per participant
- Cohort Orientation and Launch at the Mission Leaders Conference (In-person): 3-3.5 hours
- Leadership Style Self Assessments: Tools may vary: focused on leadership style, motivations, behaviors, strengths and gifting themes.
- Organizational Heath and Readiness Review & Action Plans
- Cohort Sessions (Virtual): 6 session at 2–2.5 hours each, including practicums with outside facilitators.
Schedule
- First Meeting: The first meeting will take place at the Mission Leaders Conference in Orlando, September 24–26, 2025. Date and time to be determined.
- Coaching Sessions: TBD
- Cohort Sessions: TBD
- Assessments and Reviews: TBD
Pricing
- Missio Nexus Members: $3,800
- Non-Members: $4,180
To apply, please fill out the form at the bottom of the page.
Interaction with the coach was vital for my growth.
—CEO One Mission Society
If you are interested in learning more about the CEO OnBoard program or would like to apply, please fill out the form below to provide your contact information. We will reach out to you with more details and next steps.