Coaching for Christian leaders that’s grounded in Scripture.

When leadership gets hard, or life hits hard, you don’t have to figure it out alone.
I spent 26 years building and leading an organization from startup to sale, navigating the decisions, setbacks, and pressures that come with leadership. I’ve also walked through deep personal loss and know what it’s like to keep leading when life gets hard. Now I coach other Christian leaders through honest conversation, prayer, and the wisdom of God’s Word.
– Tom Harper

A free, no-pressure conversation — just to see if it’s a good fit.

Real conversation and biblical wisdom applied to whatever season of leadership you’re in.

Conversation & prayer

Whether you’re enduring grief or other heavy leadership challenges, we’ll bring it before God together.

Scriptural focus

I help you define the real problem and approach it through a biblical lens.

Leadership & life, together

Leadership and life aren’t separate. We address both, so you can lead from a healthy foundation.

Who I work with.

1.  Startup Founders & New Leaders

One day you have an idea. The next, you’re expected to know how to lead a company.

Suddenly you’re making decisions about people, money, strategy, sales, culture, investors, technology and growth. You’re solving problems you’ve never faced before, and because you’re the leader, there may not be many people you can ask.

I know what that feels like. I spent 26 years building a company from startup to sale, making plenty of mistakes and learning a lot of lessons along the way.

If you’re starting a business, leading a young organization, or stepping into a bigger leadership role, I can help you think through the decisions in front of you, avoid some of the mistakes I made, and grow into the leader your organization needs. We’ll work through the practical challenges of building an organization while grounding your leadership in biblical wisdom.

In late 1999, I wrote a business plan for a company called Networld Media Group. My partners and I pitched it to venture capitalists and bankers. We eventually assembled a group of investors and launched the enterprise in 2000.

Our business model was based on advertising-supported news websites. It took off. We created sites in new vertical markets every year, and soon we started buying magazines, conferences and other websites. We started our own industry conferences, associations and awards programs. Revenue shot skyward.

The future was one giant dream of thrilling success. What could go wrong?

Oh, just a few things. Like competition from all sides. High staff turnover. Fickle advertisers. Recessions, 9/11, a pandemic, and AI. Lawsuits, partner conflict, phishing scams, unhappy investors, high legal bills and taxes, many years of red ink, broken air conditioning, canceled flights, medical emergencies, tragic loss and sleepless nights.

Those 26 years were a rollercoaster for sure, but God was good to us. He blessed me and my family through the company. Many people built careers at Networld. Several were there so long they ended up retiring. Faith was shared.

If you’re contemplating a new business, are in the fundraising stage, or are zooming down your own rollercoaster hill, I’d love to hear your story. I can offer assistance in the following areas:

  • Leadership development
  • Culture, strategic planning and team building
  • M&A, fundraising and investor relations
  • Tech, AI and website development
  • Content strategy
  • Living out your faith at work
  • Gaining perspective

I’ve also developed a biblical approach to areas like conflict, vision and mission, culture, motivation, fear, worry, criticism and staffing. I’m passionate about building up leaders and growing organizations. If you find yourself in a challenging situation, I’d love to help you discover a way forward.

“The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride.”
Ecclesiastes 7:8 (NIV)

2.  Leaders Who Have Experienced Loss or Failure

Some of the greatest challenges in the life of a leader arrive when loss, grief or failure come knocking.

I’ve experienced all three at the same time. Traumatic grief and an unexpected business downturn devastated me. Somehow, in the middle of it all, I had to keep leading.

After a three-year period, the Lord led me into a new chapter of life. I now guide other leaders who have endured their own deep loss. If this is you, continue reading below to see if my program called the Path to Strength is for you.

A major loss can disrupt far more than one part of your life. It can affect your identity, confidence, relationships, faith, leadership, and vision for the future.

The Path to Strength is a Scripture-based framework of 10 conversations designed to help Christian leaders understand what has happened, regain their footing, lead well in the reality they now face, and build a meaningful path forward.

Each of the conversations below will be tailored to your circumstances. Over 4 or 5 months, we’ll work through the issues that matter most to you while using Scripture as our foundation for wisdom, strength, and direction.

  1. Your Life Map

We begin by understanding the whole picture: your history, loss, relationships, faith, work, pressures, strengths, and hopes. Your Life Map becomes a living guide for the conversations ahead.

  1. Understanding Your Loss

We look beneath the event itself to understand what you actually lost—and what that loss changed in you. We identify the visible and hidden losses that may still be shaping your decisions, relationships, and leadership.

  1. Facing What Has Changed

Loss leaves an imprint. We explore how it’s affecting your emotions, habits, relationships, faith, confidence, and daily life. The goal is to see clearly all the ways grief is impacting you.

  1. Rebuilding Your Identity

When significant parts of life disappear, it can become difficult to know who you are. We examine where your identity and worth have been rooted and begin rebuilding around what remains true.

  1. Trusting God When Life Doesn’t Make Sense

You may believe God is good and still struggle to understand what he has allowed. We confront the questions, uncertainty, control, waiting, and doubt that can make trust difficult—and consider what genuine trust looks like now.

  1. Finding Strength in Weakness

The strength that carried you before your loss may not be enough for this season. We explore what it means to rely more deeply on God, receive help from others, and develop practices that restore your inner strength.

  1. Rebuilding Your Relationships

Loss affects the people around you, too. We look at marriage, family, friendships, colleagues, and other important relationships, including forgiveness, boundaries, difficult conversations, and the ways your pain may be affecting those you lead.

  1. Leading in Your New Reality

You still have people to lead, decisions to make, and responsibilities to carry. We examine how to lead effectively while carrying personal burdens, make wise decisions, communicate well, and determine what this season requires from you as a leader.

  1. Rediscovering Joy, Peace and Contentment

Healing is more than getting through the hard days. We consider what gives you life, where peace and joy have been lost, what “enough” looks like now, and how to receive the good God is giving you without denying what you have lost.

  1. Looking Toward the Future

We bring the work together and look ahead. What will you carry forward? What will you leave behind? What kind of leader do you want to become? What might God be preparing you for? Together, we identify the next faithful steps toward a meaningful new chapter.

The Goal

While you may never get back the life you had, my aim is to help you become strong enough to live, lead, and move forward in the life you have now.

“[God] comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.”
2 Corinthians 1:4

What others are saying.

“One of the best things we can do as Christian leaders is seek wisdom, understanding and sound judgment. I can’t think of a better coach to help do that than Tom.”

Todd Hopkins, Founder & CEO, Strategic Thinking Network

“I highly recommend Tom Harper’s coaching to Christian leaders who want trusted, biblically grounded guidance from someone who understands both the calling and the challenges of leadership.”

Thom S. Rainer, Founder and CEO, Church Answers

“When Tom helps a client, he not only brings a wealth of experience, compassion, and skill to the table, but wisdom.”

Richard Blackaby, President of Blackaby Ministries International and author of over 40 books

“Tom brings the rare combination of hard-earned wisdom and a genuine pastor’s heart. I trust him with leaders I care about.”

Kyle Idleman, Bestselling author and senior pastor of Southeast Christian Church

My Books

Inner Threat:  Combatting Christian Leadership’s Natural Enemy

A gripping novel about a new CEO whose first week in the job spirals into scandal — a story about the enemy leaders wrestle with from the inside.

Servant Leader Strong:  Uniting Biblical Wisdom and High-Performance Leadership

Three years of digging through Scripture, distilled into a biblical playbook for leading with both strength and humility.

Through Colored Glasses: How Great Leaders Reveal Reality – A Biblical Leadership Fable

A quick-read leadership fable about a CEO who can’t see his own motives — and the reckoning that finally forces him to.

Leading from the Lions’ Den: Leadership Principles from Every Book of the Bible

One surprising leadership principle drawn from every single book of the Bible — 66 chapters, 66 lessons.

My Recent Devotions

My coaching rates.

Path to Strength – For leaders who’ve experienced loss
$3,500 (4-month program, 1-on-1)

Executive & Leadership Coaching – $850/month, 2 × 60 min. (3-mo. minimum)

Single coaching session – $475

Ready to talk?

Tell me what’s going on, and let’s find out together if coaching is the right next step.

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