Phillip Underwood:
what we do                     who we are
Coaching
As a leader to leaders, Phil listens, learns and then responds.  Every organization, and even individual, has a need to be heard.  Many times, outside ears can hear without the prejudice of the prevailing ethos or pathology.
Because of this, Phil is uniquely positioned to provide insightful coaching based on a meta- approach to problem-solving, mission strategy and community purpose.
Phil takes an individual approach and not a 'one-size-fits-all' script to address your particular needs and focus.  As a member of an international leadership development organization, reFocusing, Phil is ready to be your partner in change.
(www.refocusing.org)


Speaking
Corporations, community and service groups and even churches are finding that a word, in season, is exactly what they need to catalyze growth, movement and a corporate synergy.
Phil provides inspiration, education, engagement and energy to an event.  Working with you to determine the message you want to communicate or using one of our proven messages of timeless importance, you can be sure that when your event is finished, the movement has really just begun.

Seminars
Phil and his team provide one to three-day learning events to communicate our signature themes -

Awaken & Activate: We have a mission, personally and collectively.  How does one discover mission and then develop a vision of results?
A&A are uniquely designed discovery tools that empower women and men to be and to do what they are on earth to do.  A&A use the latest adult learning technologies and experiences, to date, to create a learning experience that is truly life-defining.  Contact us for more information today.

Follow: An epiK journey in spiritual development that creates an Aha! moment in understanding how to live the way of Jesus, in everyday life, work and relationship.

3Three: Addresses three basic human dynamics necessary for productive living - security, identity and empowerment, and reveals how relationship with God leads the way for effective living.

Ch-Ch-Ch-Change:  Need to address change?  Begin from the beginning, asking the question "Why change?" and end at the answer "Because it is life."  Your people will be change agents instead of change resistors.

Precatus Dei: A spiritual development experience in prayer and meditation.

reFocusing

WHAT? WHAT? reFocusing is a comprehensive leadership development and cultural change process that transforms churches and followers of Jesus Christ into influential members of their community.  It includes training events, coaching, networking and resourcing for pastors, leaders and congregations.

HOW?  Many pastors and Church leaders are not adequately prepared to navigate the complex leadership challenges they face.  Going to a seminar, getting an idea, trying to implement it, adjusting and starting over when it does not fit the context can be pretty discouraging.  When the leader, as change agent, cannot even begin to know how to lead change, everyone suffers. Leaders usually suffer alone and grapple with what to do next.  It seems as if we are facing the greatest challenge: Change or Die.

reFocusing pairs you with like-minded pastors who will allow you to experience deep encounters with Christ, develop supportive relationships, collaborate on real ministry challenges, receive timely coaching, and be trained in a discovery-based curriculum that utilizes the latest in adult learning theory, all in the context of a learning community.  We call it a Pastors' Network.

Plus other custom seminars that are tailored to your particular needs and circumstances.
Working Globally and Locally, Phil Underwood is crossing the boundaries of institutional traditions to foster relationships of courage and innovation in churches and organizations around the world.

Growing up in the developing South in the Civil Rights era galvanized the necessity of deep change in people to bring forth a dream birthed in the heart and mind of God.

Because of this life experience Phil knows and shares the tragedy and the triumph of change.  Leaders who are of faint heart need not apply. Change only comes at great cost, great insight and great peril.  Still the question begs to be asked, "Who will lead change?"

Phil is a follower and a learner and he is committed to share his learning and his insight with you to make you the effective catalyst you are meant to be.

Contact Phil today and begin your journey through The Change Factor.

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Work & Mission

In addition to his personal coaching firm, epiK, Phil is currently an international team member with CRM, a church leadership development initiative based in Anaheim, California.

Leadership is common to culture – be it in a Cambodian village or a white steeple church in New England. This diversity results in the work of CRM looking at times vastly different dependent upon context.

Common to all however is that CRM staff work with churches, pastors, and lay leaders. We walk alongside leaders by coaching and equipping them to plant, lead and grow dynamic, culturally relevant churches. We do this through consistent and long-term relationships, mentoring, and formal training.
 (crmleaders.org)

Phil is also a collaborator, with author and missiologist Alan Hirsch (The Forgotten Ways, Untamed, ReJesus, Right Here Right Now) in Future Travelers, a learning laboratory of churches that are re-forming ministry and mission around organic and seminal movement dynamics (Missional DNA) found in historic shifts that moved the church forward outside the institutional environment so prevalent in the developed world today.

Organizations, churches and leaders are seeking time with Phil to analyze, dream, shape and envision a new future rooted in an ageless past.  You are invited to participate in this movement immediately.
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