Elevate™
You would leave a lasting legacy.
An ongoing mentoring relationship with Greg and Linda Wallace. Not a seminar, not a course — a continuing relationship, for pastors and nonprofit leaders building something that lasts longer than they do.
The first conversation is free and carries no obligation.
The Commitment
The Wallace Group was founded in 2015 on one mission statement — “to build healthy organizations; to create sustainable results we both care about.” The Wallace Group has held that same commitment for more than ten years.
A healthy organization was defined as one that consistently meets its definition of success by utilizing skills and behaviors of which it is proud.
Note what that does not say. Not our definition of success — yours. Elevate™ exists to get your ministry there and keep it there, working in the three areas The Wallace Group has worked in from the beginning.
Why a relationship
Dr. Greg has spent years arguing, in print, that the way leaders are usually developed does not work. Elevate™ is what he proposes instead.
“We spend an estimated $24 billion a year on leadership development but leadership experts from Harvard to Stanford question whether this extraordinary expenditure is producing better leaders.”Billions with a B, B as in Bad!
“Leadership training is rolled out simultaneously to groups of leaders at a time. As if the needs of each leader were the same; as if the challenges faced by each leader were the same; as if the solutions for each leader were the same.”Billions with a B, B as in Bad!
“Great minds might think alike but great leaders do not. … If the leaders and trailblazers I cited earlier created their own path to greatness, why are we so insistent on following the trails blazed by others?”Great Leaders Think Unlike
“People follow only leaders they trust, they trust only leaders they know. … Take the time to earn trust. And it will take time. Be patient.”How can I follow you if I don’t know you?
To get something we’ve never gotten, we do something we’ve never done. In leadership training, that something we’ve never done is to help people develop their own model of leadership, a model of leadership that flows out of their own identity.
Who you work with
Greg and Linda Wallace equip visionary leaders through mentoring, discipleship, and leadership development. Their focus areas are different on purpose.
J.D., M.A., D.Min.
The organization you lead
Apostolic Leader & Executive Mentor
The leader you are becoming
What it covers
The relationship is built on the five pillars Dr. Greg’s work rests on. Which of them you spend time in is set by where your ministry actually is, not by a fixed syllabus.
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A three-step framework for cultivating Kingdom-minded people who can influence culture wherever they live, work, serve, and play.
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More than leading people — equipping leaders to shape values, influence behaviors, and transform environments.
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The deeper work beneath fixing broken systems: the shared values, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that shape an environment.
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The shift many pastors have not yet made: from pastoral administration to apostolic governance.
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Change management expertise for leaders transforming ministries — and a social transformation framework for those called to transform society.
Where the work lands is decided with you — see all five pillars in full.
What you work with
Every tool an Elevate™ relationship uses is published in full on this site, before you pay anyone anything. What the relationship adds is the two of them applying these to your ministry, in your order, over enough time for it to hold.
A six-step template for hiring, evaluating, equipping, and rewarding people aligned with the ministry’s purpose — with a worked example for an apostolic administrator.
Read it nowAn eight-step approach for moving a leadership team, and then a whole ministry, into the culture you have been describing from the platform.
Read it nowSeven steps for leaders who know where the ministry is going but not how to take the people there — from earning trust to institutionalizing the new normal.
Read it nowFor leaders called beyond their own congregation: a repeatable process for using a social impact movement to create transformation.
Read it nowWho it is for
How it works
The form below asks what you lead, what you are trying to move, and which of the five pillars you think you are standing in. Ten minutes, no account required.
Someone from The Wallace Group follows up directly to arrange a first conversation with Greg, with Linda, or with both — whichever fits what you described.
Rhythm, focus, term, and fee are agreed in that conversation, against your definition of success rather than a package.
Every mentoring relationship is scoped to the leader and the organization, so the terms are set together on the first conversation — including rhythm, term, and fee. That conversation costs nothing and carries no obligation.
Before you ask
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Tell us what you lead and what you are trying to move. Someone from The Wallace Group will follow up directly to arrange the first conversation — free, and with no obligation.
