Built on a sound understanding of learning organization theory, adaptive leadership, family systems theory, and recent discoveries in the neurosciences, Herrington and Taylor developed and refined a highly fruitful model of church renewal. This model begins with personal renewal in which congregations learn how to become learning communities and ends with church-wide transformation.

Trisha Taylor helps leaders, congregations, and couples work toward emotional and spiritual health and maturity so that they can live with joy in loving relationships and can meet the adaptive challenges of our rapidly changing world. As a psychotherapist for more than 25 years, she is a Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors and holds a state license in counseling. She is an ordained minister and has been a co-founder of Faithwalking, Missional Marriage and Ridder Church Renewal (now known as Churches Learning Change).

Jim Herrington has been a pastor for 45 years. He has served as a denominational executive and pastor to pastors since 1989 where he first began coaching leaders. He has worked with hundreds of congregations from a variety of traditions around the challenges of personal and congregational transformation. In 1998 he became the founding Executive Director of Mission Houston, a ministry that works to build unity in the body of Christ across lines that would normally divide. In 2007 he co-founded Faithwalking, a spiritual formation ministry that equips people and congregations to live missionally. Today Faithwalking is an active ministry in the U.S., Canada, and Central America. Jim speaks regularly in conferences on the topics of spiritual formation, adaptive leadership, family systems, and missional theology.