Jerome brings a background in pastoral ministry, book writing, and leadership coaching to his current mission as Managing Editor of the Journal. His passion is to serve the Christian coaching community with everything that fosters exceptional and lasting impact!

Coaching is a profession where we get to help people discover who they are, succeed in life, and reach their potential. We’re all about building relationships and getting into people’s lives, so coaching tends to attract relational, people-oriented people. However, when you actually start coaching for a living, life can turn out to be much less relational than the career you left behind!...

Those of us in the people-helping business are often among the most lonely people on the planet. That’s true of coaches, of counselors, of pastors, and others in helping professions. Isolation just seems to come with the job. It’s a challenge most coaches face at one time or another….

In our marriage, Jill was feeling increasingly distant from me due to the isolation perpetuated by my career. We shared many things, but my work-world wasn’t one of them. Even though she had supported me through graduate school to become a counselor, it was a huge part of my life that she couldn’t share. Distance between us became more obvious, and more painful as my career progressed and I spent more and more time learning and investing in relationships with clients…