Meet the Team
The Rev. Tom Brackett is the Manager for Church Planting & Mission Development for the staff of the Episcopal Church’s Presiding Bishop. He aspires to provide coaching, organizational development and management consulting for diocesan leadership teams and their congregations, with compassion and grace. When consulting leaders in difficult settings and trying times, he is often called on to discern “what the Spirit is up to,” in that moment. His approaches to organizational redevelopment via coaching and consulting involve rigorous practices of compassion as well as a durable commitment to honoring the individual’s ideas and strengths.
Steve Matthews is a leadership coach working with redeveloping communities and new missional initiatives. He has an MA in Clinical Psychology (Western Carolina University), a Master of Divinity degree (Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond), and a Diploma in the Art of Spiritual Direction (San Francisco Theological Seminary). Steve Matthews lives in Richmond, VA. Formerly, Steve worked at St. Paul’s Richmond, and most recently he was the Executive Director of the South Coast Mission Hub in the Episcopal (a local collaborative of churches sponsored by the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts). He was a writer for The Way of Pilgrimage: An Adventure in Spiritual Formation for the Next Generation (Upper Room Books) and also writes for Devozine (a magazine for Youth and Youth Leaders). Steve is a Senior Associate Consultant with The FaithX Project.
