Jim Merhaut
Jim Merhaut has been coaching leaders and leadership teams for 10 years through his coaching business, Coaching to Connect. He specializes in organizational change. Jim holds a Master of Science degree in Religious Education with an emphasis in adult spiritual formation from Duquesne University. Jim also studied coaching through the Institute for Life Coach Training and received his PCC credential from the International Coaching Federation. He is also a Certified Reinvention Practitioner through the Reinvention Academy of Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva.
Jim moves fluidly among Episcopal, Catholic, ELCA Lutheran, UCC, and other mainline denominations in his life and work, and is especially interested in churches that want to engage in dynamic partnerships with community organizations beyond their campus. Jim’s nurtures his spirituality in silence, in nature, in reading, and in small communal spiritual practices.