Help Families Discover Strengths
A simple assessment that helps families name strengths and talk about next steps they can take together.
Author · Scholar · Advisor
What becomes possible when a pastor gets their time back?
Pastors and community leaders carry more than most people know. When the hours get crowded out, so does the presence, the prayer, and the long-view thinking their people need most.
I build systems, tools, and experiences that return time and clarity to leaders — so their calling has room to breathe and their communities begin to move.
Trusted By
Mission-driven churches, networks, and institutions doing the work.
From local congregations to universities — partners who believe that focused leaders change communities.
Ways We Can Work Together
Every leader needs a different door in.
Whether you lead a local church, a network of churches, a generation of young people, or an institution — there is a lane designed for where you are and where you are headed.
Pastors & Churches
Get your time back. Then watch what your calling does with it.
We start with one focused experiment — a sermon rhythm, a neighborhood signal, a discipleship practice — and use tools like Multiply and Community Playbook to show you what is actually moving.
Explore the 90-Day Lab →Networks & Districts
Align your churches around a shared picture of people and place.
I help networks design cohorts, playbooks, and data stories that connect multiple congregations around local calling, real capacity, and live neighborhood signals — without adding meetings that steal margin.
See Network Playbooks →Youth & Next‑Gen
Give young people space to build, not just consume.
Through Dream Chaser Kids, we design experiences where young people discover their strengths, learn to use AI with wisdom, and launch real projects alongside mentors who believe in them.
Explore Dream Chaser Kids →Boards & Institutions
Long-horizon strategy at the intersection of faith, place, and technology.
For universities, seminaries, foundations, and networks looking for board and advisory partnership — I bring a practitioner's lens on community systems, AI ethics, and the structures that either protect or crowd out leaders' time and calling.
Start a Conversation →About Leslie
I have been studying time, systems, and people since before I knew that's what I was doing.
Twenty years across city halls, church networks, corporate community work, and local neighborhoods — all circling the same question.
What becomes possible when a leader gets their time back?
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Featured Platform
Community Playbook™
See your neighborhood clearly so you can love it on purpose.
Community Playbook helps churches and partners move from disconnected efforts to coordinated impact. It gives you a simple way to connect your local calling, your people’s capacity, and the real signals coming from your community.
- Reveal ZIP‑level indicators for education, health, housing, and food access alongside lived stories, so data feels human and actionable.
- Surface aligned partners and sketch Collaboration Pathways that make mission mutual, not one‑sided.
- Feed insights into StoryWell and Multiply so what you’re learning becomes discipleship and engagement in motion.
Featured Platform
Multiply turns your messages into discipleship, not just content
We’re leading in a noisy, polarized moment. People are hearing a hundred competing stories before they ever make it back to Sunday. Multiply is a purpose‑built tool that helps you carry the right story through the week—using your sermons, testimonies, and teaching as engines for formation, not just events.
- Turn one message into a simple path of prompts, reflections, and actions your people can walk out in real time where they live, work, and scroll.
- Capture stories from your congregation and reuse them as weekly “on ramps” into discipleship journeys around justice, forgiveness, calling, and community life.
- Build short series for different groups—new believers, youth, leaders, digital‑first attenders—without creating a whole new program for each one.
- Use Multiply inside experiments so you can see which stories and pathways actually change behavior, not just fill calendars.
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Featured Platform
Kids aren’t just scrolling a future. They’re building one.
Dream Chaser Kids is a 12‑week journey that helps young people notice their God‑given wiring, learn to use AI as a tool for good, and launch one real project that serves others. Less passive screen time, more holy imagination and agency.
- Discover top talents through TalentExplorer so kids can see how God designed them to create, solve problems, and serve.
- Learn to build with AI in a safe, guided way—turning ideas into simple micro‑ventures, campaigns, or creative projects.
- Launch something real so kids move from consumers to confident young builders with a growing sense of calling and ownership.
Tools Built for Transformation
Experiments, prototypes, and pilots designed to solve real problems for pastors, families, and next‑gen leaders.
Track Spiritual Formation
A custom system for churches to see patterns in engagement, track next steps, and tell a clearer story of growth.
Keep Families Engaged
A board‑game style discipleship journey that turns learning into an adventure families actually finish together.
Prepare Youth for the Future
A hands‑on AI literacy pathway that lets kids experiment safely and see how these tools can serve people, not replace them.
Teach Real‑World Decision‑Making
Scenario‑based journeys that let learners practice judgment calls in safe, realistic contexts before they face them in real life.
Launch Youth Entrepreneurs
A guided experience where learners build a real mini‑business step by step, using e‑learning as a launch pad instead of a worksheet.
Ideas for leaders building real transformation
Short, practical pieces on turning messages into discipleship, coordinating networks, and telling better stories.
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Use Storytelling to Make Your Message Stick
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