A High-Impact Personal Growth Experience for Christian Leaders
Six or twelve months of one-on-one Christian leadership coaching for pastors and leaders, bringing clarity, strategy, and accountability to your leadership, your character, and your calling.
You already know the weight of it. You don't have to carry it alone.
My friend, if you're leading a church, a team, a family, or a business, you already know the weight of it. The pressure to have the answers. The quiet isolation of being the one everyone else looks to, with no one quite walking beside you.
I don't know your whole story yet. But I recognize that weight, and I'm glad you found your way here. What God is doing in you, and in your areas of influence and impact, is exciting, and I look forward to walking alongside you in it, in the days and weeks ahead.
I don't think it needs to be said, but just so you know: I didn't build this coaching program because I think I have all the answers. I built it because I've lived the tension of leading while still figuring out what God is doing in me, and because I've watched too many good leaders burn out, stall out, or settle for less than what they were created for, simply because no one walked with them long enough to help them see it.
You may already know this about me, but I was born with one hand. Early on, that could have become a story about limitation. Instead, it became the starting point for everything I now believe about purpose: that God doesn't waste anything about how He made us, and that the things we're tempted to hide are often the very things He wants to use. That conviction shapes how I coach. I'm not interested in helping you perform better for a season. I'm interested in helping you become who you were actually created to be as a leader, a spouse, a parent, and a person of faith.
God doesn't waste anything about how He made us. The things we're tempted to hide are often the very things He wants to use.
This program has real structure to it, and I take that seriously. But what I care about most isn't the framework; it's you. I'll ask you questions that might be uncomfortable, and I'll tell you the truth even when it's not what you might want or expect to hear. That's what it means to stay in someone's corner for the whole journey, not just the easy stretches.
If you're reading this, something in you is already leaning toward that kind of partnership. I'd count it an honor to walk it with you.
Clarity. Strategy. Accountability.
The Leadership Strategies Coaching Program provides leaders with the clarity, strategy, and accountability needed to accelerate personal and professional growth. This intensive coaching experience combines a structured framework with a flexible, personalized approach to help leaders make meaningful progress within six or twelve months.
Who Is This Coaching For?
Leaders seeking greater clarity, healthier patterns, and meaningful personal and professional growth.
Christian leaders who want practical, results-driven coaching.
Leaders who are ready to address barriers, strengthen their leadership capacity, and take intentional steps forward.
The Christian Leader® Blueprint
Every coaching journey runs through the same growth framework: sixteen topics across four areas that shape how you lead, relate, and grow.
Key Features & Structure
A structured framework with a flexible, personalized approach.
Goal Identification Session
Your first session identifies the growth priorities that can create the greatest impact over the next six or twelve months, such as leadership development, communication, decision-making, emotional intelligence, relational health, and more.
Blueprint Self-Assessment
You'll complete the Christian Leader® Self-Assessment to evaluate your current strengths, challenges, and growth opportunities across the sixteen topics of the Blueprint, then define what meaningful progress looks like.
Twice-Monthly Sessions
Coaching happens twice each month for six or twelve months, for a total of twelve or twenty-four 50-minute sessions focused on your priorities, current challenges, and next steps, with practical application and honest feedback.
Optional One-Month Extension Optional
Need more runway? Extend the program for one additional month at the same per-session rate for continued development and refinement.
Optional Half-Day CDR Assessment Optional
When a CDR 3-D certified coach is available, add a four-hour assessment and coaching session using the CDR 3-D Assessment Suite® to explore leadership character, motivational drivers, and potential risk factors for deeper insight into your strengths, tendencies, and possible leadership derailers.
Coaching Approach
Assess & Discover
Clarify current realities, desired outcomes, and primary growth objectives. Explore strengths, obstacles, patterns, and potential risks.
Implement & Develop
Identify practical strategies and action steps. Apply new insights to your current leadership and life situations.
Refine & Sustain
Evaluate progress, reinforce what's working, and establish a sustainable plan for continued growth beyond the coaching program.
Coaching with Darin has far exceeded our expectations. Meeting twice a month has given us insights we’re putting into practice, and we’re seeing growth in both our personal lives and our ability to lead.
Darin is a once-in-a-generation person… the type of person you not only want to be around, but you want to be like. His rare outlook on life truly helped me through some very trying and tragic situations.
Choose Your Season
Choose the length that fits where you are right now.
Six-Month Program
- Goal Identification Session
- Christian Leader® Self-Assessment
- 12 twice-monthly coaching sessions
- Optional one-month extension available
Twelve-Month Program
- Goal Identification Session
- Christian Leader® Self-Assessment
- 24 twice-monthly coaching sessions
- Optional one-month extension available
Optional CDR 3-D Assessment Suite®. A four-hour assessment exploring leadership character, motivational drivers, and leadership risk factors, added to either program when a certified coach is available.
Ministry leader discount. A discount is available for qualifying pastors, district officials, pastoral staff, ministry directors, church school leaders, and other approved ministry leaders. Mention your role when you schedule your consultation.
About Your Coach
Darin Sargent was born with one hand, and it became the starting point for a life spent helping others discover that their limitations were never disqualifications. He pastored for more than 20 years, leading ministry organizations and teams through growth, crisis, and change. That experience now shapes how he coaches leaders and teams today. For decades he has also spoken to leaders, churches, and organizations across the country and around the world, and he currently directs Ministry Central for the UPCI.
He is a Certified NeuroChange Professional Coach through the Makin Institute and a Maxwell Leadership Certified Coach. He is the author of several books, including Battle the Beast, Parenting with Purpose, and The Gift of the Empty Sleeve.
Two more ways Darin walks alongside families.
Beyond leadership, Darin also leads two personal coaching journeys: one for parents building a home on purpose, and one for individuals and families navigating disability.
Parenting With Purpose
Twice-monthly coaching to help parents build a home rooted in faith, connection, and intention.
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Coaching for individuals, parents, and caregivers navigating disability or a diagnosis, drawn from Darin's own story.
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