Justin Fordinal

Experience

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  Risen Church

  Jan 2014 - May 2022

  Founding Pastor

  By God’s grace, I planted a thriving-community of Christ-followers. My contributions to this effort included creating our mission, vision, and core-values as well as raising the funds required to start the work. As the Lead Pastor, my role was often to do what needed to be done, independent from what might be on a “typical” job description.- Experienced little staff turnover, gained over $1,000,000 of annual finances to steward, had two separate land/building acquisitions, and was able to give 12% of all our internal offerings towards ministry partners. My responsibly was also to receive, assess, and manage the P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cashflow reports.- Lead the way with strong team building efforts, vision casting, wise resource allocation, system development, building an equipping process, clear communication, and catalyzing our mission.- Grew the Church from 16 regular attendees to over 500 in five years.- Lead and served as a "GC" various projects such as building expansion, primary responsibility for financial reports, stewarding cash flow, creating sustainable compensation packages, negotiating prices and services, staff recruitment and development, community engagement, and primary responsibility of the preaching/teaching. Show less

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  Self-Started

  Aug 2016 - Jan 2024

  Real State Investor

  Seeing an opportunity, I analyzed the real estate market as well as the individual deals available. Once the right deals were identified, I created a prudent strategy for acquiring them. Upon closings, I ran crews to complete large-scale repairs on deadline and within budget. As this work was underway, I had marketed and secured tenants to lease out the single-family homes. This venture gave me further experience and helped refine my abilities to see potential where there was currently disintegration. Further, it allowed me to hone the ability to draw out the potential through thorough assessment, organization, proper systems, and through the efforts of others. On a whole, much progress and growth comes from an assessment of challenges, the available resources (energy, skills, capital, etc.), and then structuring a plan to achieve goals through leveraging resources in a sustainable way. - Led a commercial building expansion project, which included running point on external and internal design, contractors, timeline, budget, and building to code. - Anticipating the market shift, I sold all single-family homes for a significant profit and used the funds to re-invest into syndicated apartment complex opportunities.- Gained experience in partnering with contractors, maintaining equitable relationships with tenants, and drawing out the potential of poorly maintained homes by seeing what could be, not just what it is. Show less

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  Core Group Resources

  Sept 2022 - Aug 2024

  Navigating the business world can be complicated for even the most seasoned professionals. Through our unwavering commitment to providing exceptional service to our clients, we have become one of the fastest-growing companies in Houston. In doing so, we’ve forged strong relationships over our partnerships with external consultants, service providers, and subject matter experts. Over the years, these relationships have provided an overflowing fount of wisdom that has become invaluable to the organizations we serve and our company.- Served as COO of SPI Marine on a 6 month contract to help the company with proper systems, communication pipelines, leadership development, and alignment. - Responsible for the vision, execution, and financial value-add of the Department.- Help to create the company's growth goals.- Provide assistance through coaching, training, evaluating and proposing solutions, pitching in to help when necessary, and providing leadership for projects or events.- Lead with a creative mindset, excellent organizational skills, strong entrepreneurial mindset, and great leadership skills.- Promote Business Advisory activity that will generate revenue and lead to sustainable growth. - Develop and implement strategies according to the goals and objectives aiming to accelerate growth through business development.- Identify and implement core KPI’s for business growth and metric management. Show less

  • Chief of Staff

    Jan 2024 - Aug 2024

  • Vice President of Business Advisory

    Sept 2022 - Aug 2024
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  Christ Community Church

  Aug 2024 - now

  Executive Director

  Serving the church