The pandemic season has done two things for a Senior Pastor succession thinking. For many, some long-term senior pastors under 60 years old and now planning to hand over leadership over the next few years.
On the other extreme are those Senior Pastors, even over normal retirement ages who feel like it would be bad to plan to leave now or have been reinvigorated. Either way, it puts the Executive Pastor in a strange and often awkward spot.
Dave Travis has now coached or counseled 118 larger churches in the Pastor Smart Succession Process. This session will focus on how the Executive Pastor can use their role to help in the process.
Resources
- Succession Planning by Dave Travis
- More free resources from Dave Travis: Smart Succession e-book and others
- Fletch’s case study on succession, Exit of a Founding Pastor
- Jeff Jones reflection on that succession
- Fletch’s case study on succession, Succession Plan: A 20-Year Transition
About Dave
Dave Travis is the Director of Strategic Counsel to Pastors and Church Boards at Generis. Dave has a wealth of experience from pastoral ministry and the business world. He has worked as a pastor as well as consulted with many churches in different contexts. Through Leadership Network he has had the privilege of learning from many esteemed mentors. His involvement in this network has taken him all over the country to work with various ministries and with some of the country’s leading pastors. Dave earned a Masters of Divinity in Pastoral Ministry from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a B.S. in Management from Georgia Tech. He also did a short course at the Harvard Business School in Strategic Perspectives for Nonprofit Management. These accomplishments combined help Dave to offer a unique perspective for the churches with which he consults. Dave is the author of three published books and is a noted speaker and consultant to megachurches across the country.
