Action Is The Foundational Key To Your Success
Detailed Areas of Expertise Include:
INDIVIDUAL COACHING
Kerry has been coached throughout his life - teachers, sports coaches, ministers and business associates have all added tools helping him succeed. Coaching is a one on one approach that comes with observations, insights, goal setting and skill building techniques to enhance performance, confidence and capabilities. You make decisions everyday - let Kerry provide you life changing insights to make the most productive ones.
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES
Starting out at the young age of 22 years old, Kerry began pastoring his first church in a small town in central Oklahoma. This experience along with a speech communication degree from Oklahoma State University has given Kerry years of practice to build and develop as an excellent speaker to both small and large audiences. Kerry is very accustomed to using an interactive approach to engage his audiences and create an environment and setting that is never boring or lacking enthusiasm. You will not be disappointed when Kerry speaks in either a business setting or preaching opportunity.
WORKSHOPS
As a trained facilitator with a BA in speech communication, Kerry has many years of conducting workshops including but not limited to the following: employee motivational workshops, care giving skills workshops, boundaries, conflict resolution, leadership development and growth, relational enrichment. Kerry has also conducted workshops on several mental health issues such as leadership burnout and depression. As a Mental Health Professional, Kerry uses his psychology background for interesting stories, analysis and structure.
TEACHER / EDUCATOR
To fulfill a passion for teaching and educating the next generation, Kerry has worked as an adjunct professor of psychology for the University of Alaska for over 12 years. These courses have been at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Working with students, both in the classroom and individually, Kerry has received the rewards and praises of students letting him know it was because of his courses and teaching they decided to change their major and pursue a degree and career in psychology. Three times Kerry was chosen by student athletes as their favorite professor and honored at an award presentation.
NON-PROFIT DEVELOPMENT
With years of small group experience and education as an educator, Kerry has developed a passion to work with church pastors / staff / leadership teams and other non-profit organizations through his own successful experiences and positions. Having a philanthropic mindset non-profits have always held a special place in Kerry’s heart to nurture their missions, propel their values to excel and become solvent through planning both financially and goal focused. Non-profit organizations can lose track of their own basic foundation and require grounding and structure to excel. More than just a good idea and wanting to help the cause, it requires passion and goals to be successful. Kerry believes it is important to promote the welfare of others, to live and teach the value of giving and acts of kindness.
PASTORAL CARE
Starting with the first church Kerry pastored at a very young age he was called to provide pastoral care in multiple capacities. As in the other areas of expertise, Kerry learned and grew mostly through trial and error - without the assistance of a life coach or mentor in many areas. He quickly realized he did not possess very good pastoral care skill or insight even though he had the passion and heart to provide pastoral care. This realization was the catalyst for one of his most important decisions to go back to school where he completed 3 graduate level degrees with an emphasis on pastoral care and counseling. He has since worked with people experiencing grief and loss, physical and sexual abuse trauma, addiction, depression and relational conflict. Kerry brings many years of both education and experience to the table to support people going through crisis and difficult challenges life can bring.
ORGANIZATIONAL PLANNING
In the beginning of Kerry’s professional career and as a very young pastor, Kerry realized he needed some understanding of how to set and reach organizational goals. When he began pastoring he had no idea how to create, establish or think of goals or how to be effective. Mentorship through elder ministers, workshops and books on organizational management was vital to his success. He read everything he could get his hands on about organizational management and through college courses, he educated himself on these processes. Following his pastoral career Kerry founded and launched his own successful non-profit counseling center that grew from meeting the first year’s budget to exceeding projections and more than quadruple their financial budget. Kerry has worked in a leadership capacity for multiple organizations - both nonprofit and profit sector. He has honed the skill-set of how to set realistic organizational goals and create the action steps toward attaining those goals.
FACILITATOR
Kerry has facilitated numerous small groups through his years as a mental health professional focusing on his expertise on mental health issues, basic care giving skills, conflict mediation, marriage and relational enrichment and premarital counseling. He has an extensive background as a facilitator of group interaction utilizing the Myers-Briggs 16 Personalities Test, Prepare and Enrich Inventory, Taylor-Johnson Temperament Analysis, and Prevention and Relational Enhancement Program.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
The value of leadership development is forged through relationship. All of us have had mentors in our lives that have nurtured us toward great heights and loftier goals. As an educator, coach, mentor and former pastor Kerry brings his many years of experience built through his own personal growth and development as well as his mistakes and misfortunes to benefit and mentor business leaders, their teams, students and young ministers while enhancing their careers, providing positive outcomes for their discovered decisions.
MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL
Starting with the first episode of spousal abuse in a small church Kerry pastored, he became very aware of the need for greater skill-sets to be a successful pastor and avoid adding more trauma to either party. This continued education was the beginning stages of working with some of life’s toughest issues. This launched Kerry into a desire to attend graduate school to gain a deeper understanding of human pathology and how to treat mental health issues. I have counseled well over one thousand people in most aspects of mental health categories. As an Executive Life Coach with a mental health education and background, Kerry is the ideal person to work with individuals and business leaders in multiple capacities.
TEAM DEVELOPMENT
A leader is only as good as the team that surrounds and supports them. Not as easy as it sounds - most leaders struggle with their own leadership style and create a negative environment and have poor communication skills. Building up your team is the key to success but how does that happen and how does a business or organization create and maintain synergy, harmony and unity all while being productive? Through years of personal growth and being part of a group of highly accomplished professionals throughout his career, with Kerry’s style of motivation and support you will gain the energy, confidence, ongoing skills and tools to bring value to any situation - both professionally and personally.
“A business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership”