Dr. Nace Lanier

Experience

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  Hope Community Church

  Jul 2002 - Jul 2006

  Lead Pastor

  Led, organized, taught and counseled a congregation that grew from 40 to 350 people. • Prepared and delivered weekly presentations as determined by the specific needs of the attenders.• Met weekly with creative team to plan, evaluate and market for expansion of organizational influence.• Met bi-monthly with organizational board to vision cast, plan strategically, and coordinate united efforts for growth. • Performed counseling and instruction for various issues, including life skills and crisis intervention. • Engaged and educated organizational mission, vision, and values to integrate new people into participation. Show less

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  Burke Community Church

  Aug 2006 - Mar 2015

  Discipleship Pastor

  Lead, organize, teach and counsel a congregation that has grown in active participation from 900 to 2700 people. 1. Leadership and Management • Manage, support, evaluate and hire part and full time staff members.• Recruit, direct, and support numerous volunteer leaders serving in over 15 distinct ministries. • Public speaking to over 650 people including conferences and seminars.• Oversee congregational leadership board and their unique ministry teams. • Provide oversight to multiple programs and groups including women’s, men’s, prayer, marriage, assimilations, singles, a homeschool educational co-op, and others.• Develop and guide processes that move people from visitor to active member.• Event planning and coordination both program specific and organization-wide educational and service events.• Created new ministerial programs through development of teams such as Physical Needs, Young Adults, Singles, Meals, and Care.2. Teaching, Training and Counseling• Research and develop curriculum and provide oversight for small groups, adult classes and seminars.• Train over 100 small group leaders from seminars to unique online content.• Supervise and train interns in Discipleship Ministries. • Prepared and delivered variety of presentations based on the specific needs of the attenders.• Provide and give counsel for a broad range of challenging issues including suicide prevention, marital crisis, and harmful addictions.3. Financial and Technological• Part of team development and management of church wide budget of $4 million dollars having full responsibility for execution of Adult budget.• Lead communication and technology conversion of church wide database.• Coordinate and oversee audiovisual and facilities requirements for adult ministries.• Promotion of education and volunteer opportunities through creation of copy and layout design Show less

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  Metropolitan Washington Airports Interfaith Chapels

  Aug 2015 - now

  Provide counseling, support, and services to travelers, airport contractors and MWAA personnel. • Participate in the Family Assistance program for travelers and their family members• Offer crisis pastoral counseling to MWAA employees and families in need• Provide counseling, resources and assistance to families in emergency situations • Provide resources for travelers and MWAA personnel in areas such as stress management, marital relationships, and ethics• Maintain materials and worship space• Coordinate pastoral volunteer services as appropriate• Serve as liaison and subject matter expert with other faiths and clergy in the community • Ensure that personnel of all religions and traditions are offered equal opportunity to practice their faith• Provide informed and empathetic responses to questions of a religious, ethical or vocational nature• Offer prayers at various ceremonies and events• Collaborate with faith teams to provide a variety of accessible worship experiences• Provide sacramental ministries like marriages and funerals Show less

  • Director

    Aug 2017 - now

  • Senior Chaplain

    Aug 2015 - Aug 2017
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  Focusing Forward, LLC

  May 2017 - now

  Executive Coach, ICF Certified

  Focusing Forward Executive Coaching builds relationships where we sharpen the performance of the client that is advantageous to the person, their team, and the business. * Helps the client focus on where they themselves want to go, building a plan, working the steps, and consistently evaluating the process. * Asks penetrating, thought provoking questions that help the client better consider and evaluate themselves, their team, and the company. * Develops a relationship that is personal and professional. * Creates a safe space to do the hard work of executive leadership that is not just urgent but important.Focusing Forward Executive coaching is about the development of the holistic health of the person. The physical body has demands and needs that if fed correctly can enable a leader to press forward in strength and vigor. But if ignored the body can pay some short term successes but can destroy the long term investment. In a similar way the emotional health of the leader is extremely important and must be nurtured. Wounded people wound other people. Having a high emotional quotient is important in business to engage others in a respectful and winning way. The spiritual health of the leader completes the person. How does a person stay calm in the middle of the cycles of business and also anchors them with the ethical and moral compass throughout life? Our coaching engages each person to be mindful and present. A leader must stand on something to rise above the chaos. Our coaches are not mentors or subject matter experts, but they encourage and inspire great professionalism and growth in your corporate values and competencies. Executives will be encouraged to always be learning, especially in ways that will give them the fuel to live well in the corporate fast lane. Show less

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  Cave Pictures Publishing

  Aug 2017 - now

  External Relations

  Reviews public communications to ensure a consistent brand identity and message.* Proactively creates the corporate identity of Cave Pictures Publishing through media channels with a focus on Twitter.* Reviews and recommends materials being considered for publishing. * Oversees the writing and editing of event scripts, advertising, promotional materials, and press releases. * Resident theologian who is present for the pastoral needs of the company employees and associated talent.Cave Pictures Publishing, founded by entertainment executive Mark Rodgers on the principles of social justice reform and the common good, is a wall for modern myths. We tell stories that are excellently crafted, deeply questioning, and spiritually meaningful. Our projects include original works by acclaimed artists in the comics industry as well as adaptations of existing works. We seek these truths far and wide, through various genres — fantasy, supernatural, historical, and science fiction — that speak to a broad cross-section of readership.Our name is inspired by Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, in which a man who initially only sees reality cast in ill-defined shadows on a cave wall is freed and moves outside of the cave to a greater reality beyond. We believe that this journey is universal and fundamentally spiritual, and that the one who seeks, finds. Show less