Faith-based leaders navigate a unique set of challenges, balancing the demands of employers, teams, and communities, while staying true to their values. After decades of coaching and mentoring hundreds of leaders, Matthew Freeman and Tamra Wright have designed a groundbreaking programme to help leaders thrive, even in the most challenging times.

Join Our Initial Cohort This Summer
In just two months, you will acquire essential skills to lead a fulfilling, healthy life while effectively guiding your team or community and serving God with renewed joy.

"Matthew Freeman and Dr. Tamra Wright have crafted a powerful, practical, and transformative programme. 'Serve God with Joy' is a lifeline for faith-based leaders seeking to maintain well-being while fulfilling demanding roles. With their vast experience and innovative methods, these iconic thought leaders provide essential tools for resilience, empathy, and joyful leadership. This programme is a must for those wanting to lead with renewed energy and purpose. Don’t miss this pioneering opportunity!"

Krish Ravel OBE, founder of Faith in Leadership

Combatting Isolation and Burnout
Leaders in demanding roles often feel isolated and worry about meeting their communities' needs without sacrificing their health, well-being, and family responsibilities. The risk of burnout is significant. Our program offers insights from cutting-edge research in productivity and positive psychology, providing you with tools to avoid burnout and transform setbacks into opportunities for growth. You will learn to:

• Develop positive new habits
  
• Overcome self-defeating patterns of thought and behavior
  
• Enhance your empathy, focus, and creativity

These skills will benefit your professional and personal life, empowering you to lead with greater joy and confidence. 

Transform Your Leadership Journey
Join us this summer and become part of a supportive community of faith-based leaders committed to personal and professional growth. You will learn Stanford professor Dr BJ Fogg's Tiny Habits approach to behaviour change with Tamra, a certified Tiny Habits coach, and complete the 6-week 'Positive Intelligence' program created by best-selling author Shirzad Chamine. You will also have access to the Positive Intelligence 'PQ' app for a whole year, to reinforce the progress you make this summer. 

Programme structure

• 7 weekly meetings over Zoom (choose between 1 pm or 8 pm meetings on Mondays) 
  
  
• 2 individual coaching sessions with Matthew or Tamra
  
  
• 6 weeks of email-based habit coaching with Tamra
  
  
• 2 follow-up group meetings to reinforce progress
  
• 12 months of access to the Positive Intelligence app 

Fees and Bursaries
From September 2024, the full price of this programme will be £1200, but you can join the first cohort for just £800. We also have generous bursaries available for those who don't have institutional support, so please don't let concerns about finance prevent you from joining us! If you have questions about the bursary scheme or prefer to pay by bank transfer, please email us for more information: matthew@dialectixconsulting.com or Tamra.2020Torah@outlook.com

About the programme leaders
Matthew and Tamra are friends and colleagues who first met when Matthew joined the faculty of the Senior Faith in Leadership Programme. After years of working together, they have joined forces to create a bespoke personal development programme for faith-based leaders. 

Matthew Freeman, an Anglophile American, isn't just a facilitator, author, and coach – he's a bridge builder. His passion is helping individuals and groups overcome differences and find common ground to tackle complex challenges. Sought after globally, Matthew has brought his expertise to diverse audiences – from members of the US Congress and the Federal Reserve to Fortune 500 companies and small charities across the US, UK, Europe, Kenya, and Hong Kong.

With a unique background in science and Christian church history, Matthew sheds light on how our brains can hinder collaboration and progress. He delves into these topics in his book, Overcoming Bias: Building Authentic Relationships Across Differences, and his numerous articles.

Dr. Tamra Wright brings an unusual combination of skills to coaching and leadership development. Her academic background in philosophy enables her to think deeply and critically about leadership challenges and proposed solutions, and she draws on decades of experience teaching, coaching, and mentoring hundreds of leaders and educators from different faith communities.  

Tamra is a Senior Adjunct Professor at Yeshiva University, Curriculum Development Advisor at Faith in Leadership, Senior Research Fellow at LSJS, and the founder of 2020 Torah. She is the author of The Twilight of Jewish Philosophy: Emmanuel Levinas’s Ethical Hermeneutics (1999), and co-editor of Face to Face with Animals: Levinas and the Animal Question (2019) and Radical Responsibility: Celebrating the Thought of Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (2012). She has published numerous articles on contemporary Jewish thought and, more recently, on Judaism and Positive Psychology. Her article "Serve God with Joy (and Self-Actualization): Positive Psychology and the Thought of Rabbi Sacks" is included in An Ode to Joy (2024). She is a certified Tiny Habits Coach and a Mental Fitness Coach.