Strategic Advisory
Leadership often gets complicated when the path forward is unclear.
Maybe your organization is in transition. Maybe your team needs help naming what is changing. Maybe you are preparing for a sabbatical, rethinking your mission, navigating growth, or trying to make wise decisions with limited time, energy, and clarity.
Type 3 Consulting provides thoughtful strategic advisory for leaders, churches, nonprofits, and mission-driven organizations that need a trusted outside voice.
A sabbatical is a special gift and opportunity. Let’s work together to make the most of it!
Rich Henderson brings years of experience in nonprofit leadership, church ministry, community development, mentoring, facilitation, and organizational strategy. His work is relational, practical, and grounded in careful listening. He helps leaders and teams step back, ask better questions, clarify what matters most, and identify a wise path forward.
Strategic Advisory may include sabbatical planning, leadership support, mission and vision conversations, team facilitation, strategic planning, or custom consulting based on the needs of your organization.
This work is not about handing you a generic plan. It is about helping you understand where you are, what is needed, and how to move forward with greater clarity, health, and purpose.
When you’ve been in ministry or in the workplace for a while, as I have, sabbatical is a weird and confusing time… we are often used to charging ahead at full speed and then sabbatical comes and it can be disorienting to slow town or take an extended time for reflection and introspection. Rich’s wisdom, experience, and ability to listen empathically has been a wonderful resource and a blessing to me as I’ve navigated sabbatical and major life transitions. We all need different types of Guides at certain points in our lives. Investing in a Guide as you traverse the uncharted path of sabbatical is well worth it.. or at least it was for me. - Mary
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Not all businesses have the foresight to offer their staff the important opportunity of taking a sabbatical. Thankfully, yours does. We will work to create a win-win scenario - serving both you and the organization. We offer a number of resources and will host regular meetings together during the full process - from the early planning through your reentry back into the workplace.
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Faith communities may offer sabbaticals to some of their staff but are often at a loss for how to make this a productive time away. We will meet regularly to develop a plan, during your sabbatical time away, and when you return to work. We will include elements of sustaining the organization while you are away and including others in your work and relational spheres.
Church Mission Engagement
Healthy missional engagement takes careful and proactive work.
Strong and wise missional involvement is a great calling, opportunity, and responsibility of any faith community. Let’s work to strengthen those efforts.
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Will you or a team be going on a cross cultural trip? Do you have the tools you need to cross cultural boundaries in a healthy way? We can assess your situation and develop a plan for an overview or a number of sessions that will help in this venture. We will work through a set of resources that will help you successfully navigate the unique challenges and opportunities of cross cultures.
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Many primarily white churches are wrestling with how to live out their concerns for racial justice. Numerous people have read the books and are searching for what to do next. We will work to develop meaningful and well-rounded plans for racial justice engagement - encompassing prayer, education, relationships, and meaningful actions (all from the posture of listening to people of color for our guidance). We will consider influencing top-down structural change as well as bottom-up individual and church wide steps.
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In my experience, most churches are reactive or scattered in their approach to missional involvement. We can work together to help church outreach teams align and focus church missional priorities, leveraging the impact of the value resources of time and money. This process will involve looking at church values, current and aspirational commitments, as well as healthy missiological practices.