"Create Impact: Leadership and Team Development through the Monk Principles"
Leadership Development Rooted in Virtue and Character
I work with leaders, executives, and leadership teams who sense that performance alone is not enough—and that lasting success requires character, clarity, and coherence. Grounded in The Monk Principles©, my coaching integrates ancient Benedictine wisdom, positive leadership research, and practical strategy to help leaders cultivate virtue, build healthy organizations, and create meaningful, sustainable impact.
This work moves leaders from grumbling to thriving—by aligning inner formation with outward action, and strategy with what truly matters.
Individual Leadership & Executive Coaching
Personal formation shapes organizational transformation.
One-on-one coaching is designed for leaders who want to grow not just in effectiveness, but in wisdom, integrity, and purpose. Together, we focus on the interior work that makes durable leadership possible—clarifying vocation, strengthening character, and developing the strategic mindset required to lead well in complex environments.
Using tools such as the Values in Action (VIA) Character Strengths, CliftonStrengths, Gallup BP10, and the Business Planning Funnel, we uncover how your strengths, values, and calling converge. From there, we translate insight into disciplined action—helping you make better decisions, lead with confidence, and stay grounded amid growth and pressure.
Individual coaching is ideal for leaders who want to:
Gain clarity of purpose and strategic direction
Align values with daily leadership decisions
Develop humility, courage, perseverance, and wisdom
Lead with greater presence, discernment, and integrity
Integrate faith, work, and life into a coherent whole
Group and Team Coaching
Building healthy community requires shared language, clear alignment, and disciplined practice.
Group and team coaching applies The Monk Principles© at the organizational level, helping leadership teams understand how they lead together and what kind of culture they are intentionally shaping. This work blends Benedictine wisdom with modern organizational insight—most notably the Competing Values Framework (CVF)—to bring clarity, balance, and cohesion to teams navigating growth, complexity, and change.
Using the Competing Values Framework, we assess your current and desired culture across four critical dimensions—Collaborate, Create, Compete, and Control—and explore how these tensions are being managed (or avoided). The Monk Principles provide the moral and strategic compass that guides this work, ensuring culture is not shaped by accident, personality, or pressure, but by shared values, virtue, and purpose.
Through facilitated sessions, assessments, and applied practices, teams learn how to move:
From fragmentation to alignment
From reactivity to discernment
From transactional performance to genuine community
From short-term pressure to sustainable excellence
Group and team coaching is ideal for organizations seeking to:
Establish a shared leadership and culture language
Understand and intentionally balance competing organizational priorities
Strengthen trust, accountability, and collaboration
Align strategy, systems, and behaviors with stated values
Build resilient cultures that thrive through growth and change
This work helps teams not only perform better—but lead better together, creating cultures where people belong, contribute meaningfully, and stay long enough to be known.
Watch for Mike’s newest book, More Thriving, Less Grumbling: A Field Guide to Five Monastic Principles for Living Well, Leading Wisely, and Working For Impact coming in 2026.
What We Will Work On
Strategic Clarity
Clarify direction and align strategy with purpose, values, and long-term vision. Develop practical plans that support confident decision-making and consistent execution.
Sustainable Growth
Build resilient leadership and organizational systems rooted in Stability. Focus on long-term health rather than short-term wins, enabling steady progress through change and uncertainty.
Stronger Teams & Community
Community creates cultures where people feel seen, respected, and connected to a shared mission—driving engagement, morale, and performance.
Enhanced Leadership Capacity
Develop a strategic mindset grounded in virtue and self-awareness. Lead with empathy, courage, and integrity while drawing out the best in others.
Improved Decision-Making
Apply discernment-based frameworks that integrate data, values, and wisdom—allowing leaders to respond thoughtfully to opportunity, challenge, and complexity.
Innovation & Excellence
Cultivate a culture of excellence that values creativity, learning, and positive change—transforming challenges into opportunities for growth.
Lasting Impact & Fulfillment
Move beyond success defined solely by results. Build a legacy marked by meaning, service, and contribution—remembered not just for what you achieved, but how you led.
Why The Monk Guy?
Character-Based Leadership – Leadership formed from the inside out
Positive Leadership & Strategy – Research-backed, human-centered approaches
Sustainable Impact – Results that endure because they are rooted in virtue
Ready to Discern Your Next Step?
Whether you are considering individual coaching or exploring team or organizational development, the first step is discernment. A Discernment Call is a focused, reflective conversation to explore where you are, what’s calling you forward, and whether working together is the right next step.
The work begins with listening.
“I have had the opportunity to work with Mike on several occasions and his knowledge and expertise on leadership, entrepreneurship, and best organizational methods are some of the best I have seen. He has a tremendous amount of experience and practical wisdom that is extremely valuable to any organization. In addition, his unique content and approach to training our team and in the delivery of unique organizational models is a huge benefit to our team, our board and our organization that will yield a great deal of success for years to come.”