Surviving chaos requires a perspective of hope and clarity. I can help refocus your team’s perspectives and creativity. Schedule a conversation now: Go to the scheduling page and set a time to talk with me, or write to me with your questions at admin@raywheeler.com. Don’t just survive, thrive!
Independent Board of Directors
Ray is an independent director (sometimes known as an outside director). An independent director is a member of the board of directors who does not have a material or financial relationship with the company or related persons except for sitting fees. Ray has served on various boards (religious non-profit, hospital, hospitality training, and NGO). Ray brings a strong leadership and organizational development perspective to established boards and a dynamic governance development perspective to newly formed boards. Ray only considers board engagements where the organization has a clear vision of building value with robust Corporate Social Responsibility economically, environmentally, philanthropically, and ethically.
Conversations That Inspire New Perspectives
Leadership and followership constantly evolve. Changes in generational values, personal development goals, and social priorities require rapid adaptation. It was one thing to wonder what a post-pandemic world looks like – but changes in the political landscape have introduced new uncertainties and undefined conflicts. Today’s challenges require leaders to be explorers and visionaries and followers to be problem solvers and innovators. Today’s challenges require skills in listening, asking questions, and delivering feedback effectively. We live in a time of constant adaptive change that throws our situation’s assumptions and definitions on its head and often uncomfortably exposes our implicit biases. Sometimes, one needs an outsider to reflect with, refocus, or listen and understand.
Development Seminars
Are you looking for ways to develop leaders you may have missed before? Workplace “rules” are changing. How do you redefine yourself successfully? Do you wish you had outside support to inspire and challenge your team, congregation, or workgroup toward a new way of thinking? Dr. Ray Wheeler is an engaging and humorous partner in developing leaders. His passion for learning and researching how complex organizations develop leaders or repress them leads to refreshing possibilities of something new. He doesn’t work with quick fixes or out-of-the-box material. He works with you to design a powerful and effective leadership development process or seminar.
Sunday Morning Service(s)
There has never been a time that didn’t need the church to be all Jesus called us to be. I have seen profound social upheaval a couple of times in my lifetime. Times of chaotic, discontinuous change tend to throw people into turmoil as familiar markers of normalcy get supplanted. Times like these summon us back to our core purpose as the people of God. We are strangers and pilgrims, dual citizens sharing a national identity and something far more significant, being the church of the living God. Ray is a practical thinker whose multicultural perspective and deep commitment to the scriptures render spiritually challenging and encouraging perspectives. People use thoughtful, relatable, insightful, prophetic, and compassionate adjectives to describe Ray’s teaching. Ray is great for pulpit-fill work as a guest speaker or interim pastor. Ray walks with Jesus with an engaged intellect and a child’s curiosity. Ray’s approach to teaching is biblically anchored and dialogically engaged with research and culture.
Retreats
Are you looking for a speaker who can sharpen the perspective, engage the experience, and synthesize the faith and context of your men and women? Ray’s diverse and successful experience in business and pastoral ministry gives him a unique ability to speak to the hearts of leaders and followers. More than one audience has discovered new and pointed insights while they laughed at one of his many stories. He has spoken for the National Association of Women Business Owners, California Staffing Professionals, Professional Coaches Mentors and Advisors, Full Gospel Business Men, church staff retreats, executive retreats, youth retreats, and other venues. Ray is a great choice.