Stop hiring. Start with the right seat.
Most ministry placements fail within nine months — not for lack of talent, but lack of support the moment the recruiter cashes the check. We define the seat, find the right leader, and coach them for a full 12 months. If it doesn’t work, we pay to fill the next seat.
01 / The challenge
Traditional staffing is broken…
Every firm makes the same promise — “culture fit,” “a true partner,” “a leader who lasts.” Then they hand you a stack of résumés, collect their fee, and disappear at the offer letter — right when the real work begins. Nine months later the hire is gone, and you’re paying to search all over again.
The stakes
The right leader doesn’t just fill a seat — they change the room.
02 / The guarantee
The RightSeat™ Guarantee.
Here’s what no one tells you: most placements don’t fail because the person couldn’t do the job. They fail inside the first year — for lack of support, right after the search firm cashed out. So we don’t cash out. We coach your new leader for a full 12 months, through the exact stretch where hires quietly make it or break. That’s why we can guarantee the placement: if it doesn’t work, we pay to fill the next seat. Skin in the game — not a finder’s fee and a wave goodbye.
Anyone can make a placement. We’re accountable for whether it lasts.
03 / How RightSeat™ works
A completely reimagined process.
From the first conversation to month twelve, we run the entire journey. Traditional staffing stops somewhere around step two.
Define the Seat
Before we look at a single candidate, we build the scorecard: what this seat must actually produce, the competencies that matter, and whether the role is even shaped right. Other firms call this “intake.” For us, it’s the whole game.
Find the Talent
We source, vet, and present people who fit the seat you defined — not just whoever’s between jobs and answers email quickly.
Navigate Interview & Negotiation
We guide the interviews, the offer, and the back-and-forth — so the right candidate actually says yes, and everyone feels good about the terms.
Advise Onboarding
We map the first 90 days so your new leader starts strong instead of stranded — the window where most hires quietly succeed or fail.
Coach for 12 Months
The part every other firm skips. We coach your new leader for a full year — through the first 90 days and the nine-month wall where most placements quietly fail. It’s how we earn the guarantee, not just promise it.
Why it sticks
Most firms vanish at the offer. We’re still here twelve months later.
04 / Your search team
The people behind your search.
Operators, not recruiters. People who’ve actually sat in the seat and built the team — a former executive pastor who scaled a church from 2,000 to 15,000, and an ex-Apple leader who builds systems and people. They’ve made the hard calls you’re facing.
Sheldon J. Andrus III
Sheldon is a strategist and organizational architect with 15+ years across higher education, nonprofits, and multi-site ministry — including engineering the systems and team structure behind growth from 2,000 to 15,000 members in three years. He helps pastors and boards build the right teams and turn organizational complexity into clear, confident decisions, on one conviction: healthy organizations are built intentionally, not accidentally.
Keith Turner, Jr.
After a decade at Apple, Keith brings a rare blend of people-first leadership and systems thinking to the work of placing the right people in the right seats. He pairs relational insight with operational clarity — identifying high-capacity individuals and the environments where they flourish, turning talent strategy into a growth engine, not a bottleneck.
05 / Free resource
Hiring a leader? Start with the right number.
The Executive Pastor Compensation Guide
Guessing at executive pastor pay is a reliable way to lose a great candidate — or overpay and quietly wince at every budget meeting. This free guide does the math for you, with pay ranges by church size, defined capacity levels, and clear expectations for boards and senior pastors.
06 / The result
The right seat changes everything.
The right leader accelerates the vision, strengthens the culture, and gives you back your weekends. The wrong one… well, you’ve met the wrong one. Let’s not do that again.
07 / The library
Hiring wisdom, on tap.
Free and unfiltered.
A growing library of conversations on leadership, hiring, and building teams that last — straight from the Irresistible Leader channel.
08 / Questions
Before the call.
Most firms get paid to fill the seat and move on. We run the whole arc — define the seat, find the talent, navigate the offer, advise onboarding, and coach your new leader for 12 months — then back it with a guarantee. They hand you résumés; we hand you a leader who sticks.
We charge a percentage of the role’s first-year salary — the standard for executive search — but with two things most firms leave out: a full year of coaching for your new leader, and a guarantee that if the placement fails, we pay to fill the next seat. You’re not paying for a résumé hand-off; you’re paying for a hire that lasts. We’ll walk you through the exact number on the intro call — no padded travel fees, no surprise invoices.
For some roles, you should — and we’ll tell you when. But senior seats are where DIY gets expensive: the search quietly eats your calendar for months, and a bad executive hire can cost multiples of the salary once you count lost momentum, severance, and starting over. We price against that math — and the guarantee means you’re not paying twice for one seat.
Simple: if the placement doesn’t make it through 12 months, we run the search again at our expense — you don’t pay twice for one seat. We coach your new leader for that full year precisely so it rarely comes to that, but we put it in writing because we’re betting on the placement too.
Leadership and key staff roles — the ones where a bad fit is genuinely expensive. Think executive pastors, directors, and senior operational and ministry positions for churches and growing organizations.
Churches are our home turf, but the process travels well. Any mission-driven organization that wants mission, culture, and talent actually pulling in the same direction is a fit.
Schedule a short intro call. We’ll learn about your organization and the seat you’re trying to fill, walk you through scope and investment, and map the clearest path forward. No pressure, no pitch — worst case, you walk away with clarity.
The invitation
Let’s fill the seat — for real this time.
One short conversation about the seat you’re trying to fill — no pitch, no pressure, no avalanche of mismatched résumés. And every placement is backed by our 12-month guarantee.
Worst case, you leave with clarity. As worst cases go, that’s a pretty good one.
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