Leadership Pathways for Women: Growing through our Internal Hindrances
“If your gift is to lead, do it diligently” Rom 12:8

An online coaching cohort for Great Commission women gifted with leading, initiating, and strategic-thinking.
Limited to 12 women – registration closes when full

Women are making their way into strategic positions of influence and leadership within the church, ministry and missions as we’ve recognized what we are missing without them. They are called by God to serve and flourish in these arenas! At the same time, we’ve seen that a women’s path into leadership is often different than a man’s, involving external and internal challenges that are not all unique to women, but they tend to hinder women in unique ways.

This guided experience of peer-learning involves monthly online meetings around the coaching process, 7 Deadly Sins of Women in Leadership, developed by Dr Kate Coleman. This 8-part investment brings together hard-won wisdom, biblical insight, and practical tools to empower women in leadership.

Discussions will be facilitated by Wendy Wilson, Exec Dir of Women’s Development Track, with coaching sessions facilitated by Beth Eckstein, Certified Executive Coach (see more about them below).  Beth and Wendy will guide us through this process of discovery and peer-learning as follows:

8 Monthly Sessions:  Sept 2025 – April 2026, SECOND Thursday of the month, 12:00 – 1:30pm ET

#1 – September 11: Introductions and Overview
     Laying the Foundation for a Good Experience – Vision, Vulnerability, and Group Guidelines

#2 – October 9: Hindrance #1 – Limiting Self-Perceptions
     Discussion: Identifying Truth and Defeating our Inner Critics
Coaching: Your own Internal Narratives

#3 – November 13: Hindrance #2 – Failure to Draw the Line
     Discussion: Life-Giving Boundaries and Practical Boundary Management
Coaching: Your own Relationship to Boundaries

#4 – December 11: Hindrance #3 – Inadequate Personal Vision
     Discussion: Discerning and Living into God-given Vision in Every Season
Coaching: Ambition Guilt

#5 – January 8: Hindrance #4 – Rhythms of Work and Rest
     Discussion: Worshipping God by Honoring our God-given Limits
Coaching: Neglecting Self-Care

#6 – February 12: Hindrance #5 – The Disease to Please
     Discussion: Balancing Relationships and Leadership
Coaching: Security Idolatry

#7 – March 12: Hindrance #6 – Colluding and not Confronting
     Discussion: Addressing Conflict with Wisdom and Courage
Coaching: Colluding with Dysfunction

#8 – April 9: Hindrance #7 – Neglect in Family Matters
     Discussion: Trusting God with our Nearest and Dearest
Coaching: Self-Reliance over God-Reliance

What you’ll be asked to do: 1) To make the most of our time together, you’ll prepare for our sessions each month by reading one chapter in the book 7 Deadly Sins of Women in Leadership and watching the videos for each month on your own. 2) At the end of each cohort session you will be given a personal action step to process with the group the next month. 3) And we’ll ask you to commit your best intentions to this cohort to be present and prepared every month!

Cost: $250 + purchase of the book, includes:
1) Full access to the video series on your own. Find previews of the video study here. (An individual subscription costs $250 alone but we can get a group rate through Women’s Development Track AND add the essential cohort learning experience together.)
2) Monthly 90-minute online sessions with your cohort for important processing and coaching as peers per the schedule above.

Registration: Register and pay through the button at the top right of this page (Notation for 7DS Online.)  Or Registration online but mail a check made payable to Women’s Development Track    PO Box 894   Coeur d’Alene, ID 83816. Your place will be confirmed when payment is received.

Your Facilitators:
Wendy Wilson brings 40+ years in missions, church ministry, and leadership. After 28 years with a pastoral training ministry in which she led the development of shepherd training for women, Wendy then served as  the Missio Nexus Mission Advisor for Development of Women from 2012-2024, focusing on growing the participation of women in executive leadership roles for member agencies. In 2015 she founded Women’s Development Track as a collaborative platform for training and mentoring Great Commission women. She brings wide experience in the diverse evangelical discussion and practice around women and ministry, and offers perspective on the growing opportunity for the Great Commission community to steward the giftedness of women thoughtfully, actively and effectively.

Beth Eckstein has over two decades specializing in leadership development and change transformation. She is an accomplished Executive Coach and Facilitator, certified Cultural Intelligence Consultant, and Immunity to Change/Developmental Sprint® Facilitator. Her MA in Organizational Change Management involved specific research in effective leadership coaching during change transformation. Beth spent 25 years in Asia with SEND International in various roles including the Asst Dir of Training and Development as well as the Dir of Women’s Ministry. Having  worked with leaders from both non-profit and corporate spaces focused on leadership development and change transformation, she is passionate to see women flourish in whatever sphere of influence they are working in for kingdom impact.

Questions? Wendy@WomensDevelopmenttrack.com