Christian leaders build significant work. Who's building into them?
Most have advisors for their business and mentors for their career. Almost none have someone speaking honestly into the intersection of their faith, their marriage, and their leadership at the same time.
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The people holding everyone else together are often running on empty.
Christian leaders in the marketplace carry enormous weight. The demands of building something, leading people, and sustaining a marriage through it all are more than most of them anticipated. They have mentors for their business. They have advisors for their finances. What they rarely have is someone who can speak honestly into the intersection of their faith, their marriage, and their leadership at the same time.
Pastors and ministry leaders face a version of the same problem: they are responsible for the spiritual health of hundreds or thousands of people, most of them are doing it while their own marriages and personal formation go untended, and the honest community they need is hard to find at the leadership level.
In both cases, the support exists. What doesn't exist is a way to access it at a price they can afford, from someone who has actually done the work.
Fifteen year. Hundreds of leaders. One Conviction.
Relational Leadership helps faith-driven leaders turn identity and relationships into a strategic advantage.
We combine executive-level operating experience, practical tools, and faith-shaped wisdom to help you lead with clarity, connection, and effectiveness.
Kim and Nick Bogardus have built their ministry around a single conviction: the quality of your life and leadership depends on the quality of your relationships. That conviction has taken them through two church plants, a decade of marriage cohorts, and fifteen years of coaching and consulting with Christian leaders across business, nonprofit, and ministry contexts.
Kim holds a Masters-level Certification in Executive Coaching. She has walked dozens of leaders and couples through some of the hardest seasons of their lives. Nick has led communications, organizational development, and executive teams across business and church contexts, and consults with organizations on strategy, leadership, and culture. Together, they are the couple that leaders call when the door is closed and there is no one else to call.
Both are trained through the Soul Care Institute. What they offer is not counseling, and it is not skills-based coaching. It is harder to categorize and more valuable for it: practical tools, pastoral depth, and the kind of honest community that most leadership development programs never touch. They work in the space between therapy and training, and they have learned to work that space well.
What Others Have Said
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“Because our team grew more comfortable working together and having hard conversations we were able to reduce the stressful workload for certain employees by 50%. This enabled staff to have more time with clients which added 10-15% to our bottom line.”
PJ, President | Ring Digital
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"By using what I learned in Leadership Coaching, I negotiated my largest contract, made partner at my firm, and my marriage and family are in the best place they’ve ever been."
Jeremy, Partner | Baker Hostetler
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“In over a decade of working in communications, few organizations have demonstrated the professionalism, insight, and analytical problem-solving skills that Relational Leadership brings. They don’t just help during a crisis—they teach you how to get ahead of challenges by building proactive strategies unique to your business. Whether it's consulting on PR or creating a plan to foster lasting media relationships, Relational Leadership equips you with the skills needed to tell your story effectively and sustainably.”
Jessica J., Communications Director
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“Nick and Kim have taught, led, coached, and counseled in a number of different venues and circumstances for us over the years. With over two decades of experience in both ministry and the marketplace, they have the scope of experience to help provide coaching and training for your team to flourish. I highly recommend them!”
Dave Owens, Executive Director | Harbor Network
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Our time with Nick and Kim has helped me grow as a leader, in that, it gave me a deeper understanding of how our team relates to each other and tangible things to work on to increase our care for each other and our effectiveness.
Jared
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“Leadership is a future-defining ability that requires great clarity and courage, honesty and humility, passion and persistence. It also requires community—another set of eyes and ears to confirm or confront one’s ideas. If you are serious about reaching your potential by having a leadership coach, I strongly recommend Nick and Kim to you. Both have the education and life experience to help you. Both have the heart to serve you. Both will prove their worth in a short amount of time. So invest in your future as you lead others into their future.”
Jim Cofield, Author | The Relational Soul
How we help
Cohorts
Strengthening Marriage — Premarital and marriage enrichment curriculum refined over ten years of working with couples at every stage.
Lead Together — A marriage alignment cohort for couples who want to lead well together, built on self-awareness, values, purpose, vision, and strategy.
Leadership Cohort — A cohort experience for Christian leaders navigating growth, transition, or the pressure of building something significant.
Women in Leadership — A cohort for Christian women in leadership navigating the specific challenges of leading with clarity and conviction.
Retreats
Leadership retreats for teams and organizations, and marriage retreats that give couples the unhurried time and honest conversation they rarely get anywhere else.
Coaching
One-on-one leadership coaching for executives, senior leaders, and founders. Marriage coaching for couples at any stage, from early in their relationship to couples who have been at it long enough to know they need help.
Teaching & Training
Team Dynamics — Practical training for leadership teams on building trust, navigating conflict, and working well together.
Leadership & Management Competencies — Training on the core skills of organizational leadership.
Speaking & Writing — Nick and Kim speak at conferences, retreats, and organizational events, and are developing books and curriculum grounded in their work with leaders.
What your support makes possible.
Donor support funds the work in two ways.
The first is an income stream for Kim and Nick that frees them to write, teach, and speak without every output needing to generate revenue. The outcome is resources: books, curriculum, teaching content, and speaking engagements that reach leaders beyond the people already in the room.
The second is a subsidy model for retreats and cohorts. Donor support covers Kim and Nick's costs, which means participants only pay for what they directly consume: lodging, food, and travel. The outcome is access. The leaders who need this most and can least afford it can still get a seat at the table.
A gift to this ministry doesn't just fund overhead. It funds the work directly, and it makes the work available to the people who need it most.
The Vision
A home for integrated leadership formation.
Imagine a CEO and his wife sitting around a table in a quiet place, finally having the conversation they've been circling for two years. They're at a retreat because someone else made it possible for them to be there.
Imagine a young pastor and his wife in their third year of church planting, holding on by faith and very little else, now in a cohort with people who know exactly what that costs.
Imagine a woman leading a team of forty, carrying more than anyone around her knows, finally in a room where she doesn't have to pretend.
And then imagine what happens when those leaders go home.
Books in the hands of leaders who will never sit across a table from Kim and Nick. A podcast in someone's ear on the way to a hard conversation. Curriculum being used in rooms we'll never visit.
These are not programs. They are the infrastructure of a community that finally does for leaders what leaders spend their lives doing for everyone else.
We intend for it to last.
How we’ve helped clients like you
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An award-winning marketing agency was in a phase of rapid growth. They were in need of creating trust and cohesion among the team as they prepared to onboard new employees and clients. Our afternoon-long workshop brought trust through greater team and self-awareness, unity through a common language, and confidence through practical steps forward. The company not only saved thousands of dollars spent on time having meetings resolving conflicts or onboarding new members, their earning potential increased as they were able to take on a record number of clients due to the unity on the team.
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We started by conducting a survey to best understand their ideal customers. We then conducted a workshop with the client to identify their core messaging, which was then built into a communication strategy. This strategy led to a 50% increase in their web traffic and 40% increase in their top line revenue.
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Brian, a lawyer at a leading national law firm had been passed over for partner and was struggling to find purpose professionally and personally. By using what he learned in coaching, he negotiated his largest deal ever, made partner, and built renewed relationships with his family.
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Eric and Emily had been married and leading together for 18 years. Through an assessment during a sabbatical, they grew in awareness of relational dynamics and entered the next phase of leadership with greater unity and confidence.
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A non-profit had expanded to multiple locations, with more on the horizon. They were in need of strengthening the relationships of the existing leadership team and assessing emerging leaders. Our morning-long workshop built unity among the team and, having knowledge of the leadership team’s goals and dynamics, over the next year we helped assess and onboard new leaders. The organization saved thousands of dollars that would’ve been the consequence of putting team members in ill-fitting roles, on conflict resolution, and by establishing healthy rhythms to keep team members functioning at a high level for longer rather than burning out. They were able to accomplish record milestones toward their mission due to greater team unity and team members put in roles best suited for them.Item description
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James and Alex are partners in a company they co-founded. Their assessment gave them practical steps to work through relational dynamics in their leadership and teamwork. This brought clarity to their leadership, reduced friction they hadn’t been able to resolve, and made them more effective as they built their business.
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Brian, an Investment Fund Manager in his early 30’s, was starting a new business and entering a new relationship. His assessment gave him new insights for leading and building a team around his strengths as well as relating well romantically.
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Courtney, an Enterprise Relationship Manager in her late 20’s, wanted to grow in her relational skills in her professional and personal life. Through coaching, she accomplished professional and personal goals by growing in resilience, trust, and confidence.Item description
The Lead Together Podcast
The quality of your life and leadership depend on the quality of your relationships. This podcast is designed for Christian men and women striving to lead more effectively at home and work. In a world of constant change and demands, it's common for couples in leadership to feel disunified, unprepared, or reactive. That's why we're here—to guide you with practical leadership skills that will increase your impact in all your spheres of influence.