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High-impact calling shouldn't feel like high-stress survival!

Closing the Leadership Gap is a year-long coaching cohort for female church leaders ready to trade daily overwhelm for concrete, skill-based strategy.

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The problem isn't your confidence.

It's just a few missing pieces.

 

Most leadership spaces offer female church leaders soft, abstract advice or simple pep talks. You don't need to be told to try harder - you need concrete, strateic development. Closing The Leadership Gap provides the real training, live coaching and personalized blueprint you need to stop surviving and start growing. 

You've been faithful to your calling.

 But behind the scenes...

  • “I'm the go-to problem solver for everyone else, but I don't have a safe space to process my own leadership hurdles.” 

  • “I get plenty of pep talks and encouragement, but what I actually need is concrete strategy and action steps.”

  • “I'm constantly pouring out into others, while my own growth and vision sit on the back burner.”

  • “I blame myself when something goes wrong on my team, spinning for days and questioning myself.”

  • “I've wondered if this is worth it, what this calling is costing me – my family, my body, my peace.”

None of this means you're failing or that you're not called to lead.

 I've spent the last 30 years leading in the local church, including as the first woman on the Executive Team of a 20,000-member, multi-site church.

Along the way, I wrote 
Developing Female Leaders and Find Your Leadership Voice, and I've had the chance to speak on this topic to thousands of pastors and church leaders across the country. 

  • Endorsed by Larry Osborne, Dave Ferguson, Carey Nieuwhof, John Ortberg, Nancy Beach, and others

  • 4-time guest, Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast

  • Consulted with hundreds of churches on ministry strategy and leadership development over the last 10 years

  • Certified Leadership Coach, MS in Human Resource Development, Background as Mental Health Nurse

I've watched what happens when a leader finally gets the piece she's been missing, and I built CLG to make that possible for you too!

“Working with Kadi Cole has been truly transformative. Her guidance gave me the boldness and confidence to step fully into my calling.”

– Janine Beachy, Next Gen Pastor, One Church

“Working with Kadi Cole has been truly transformative. Her guidance gave me the boldness and confidence to step fully into my calling.”

– Janine Beachy, Next Gen Pastor, One Church

Your gap isn't about your ability. It's about being under-resourced.
Women are often given less access to the training, coaching, and opportunities many male leaders receive by default.


It's grounded in real, documented research on why capable women often get stuck in leadership - sharpened by years of coaching conversations with female church leaders in every kind of role and at every size of church.



“86% of women in ministry feel clearly called to leadership.

But less than half have ever been intentionally developed as leaders.”

– From Kadi's research in her bestselling book, Developing Female Leaders

 

CLG Is For You If...

You're carrying real responsibility in your ministry
  – whether or not your title fully reflects it.

You've read books, listened to podcasts, and done what you could on your own
  – but now you're ready for something with more structure and depth.

You want training that takes your faith as seriously as your strategy 
  – not one without the other.

You know the skills that got you here won't get you to what's next
– and you're ready to close that gap.

You've realized investing in your own leadership isn't selfish
  – it's faithful stewardship of the calling God has given you.

Shalene Gustafson

Executive Pastor
Desert Song Community Church

BEFORE...

Shalene assumed every pushback meant "I did something wrong," sending her into days of self-doubt.

DURING...

A CLG coaching call reshaped how she engaged team conflict, replacing spiraling with real clarity.

AFTER...

"I didn't have any of that self-doubt this time." Shalene's confidence keeps growing – she's since been promoted to Executive Pastor, and she's finally trusting that she belongs in the room.

Shalene Gustafson

Executive Pastor
Desert Song Community Church

For years, Shalene assumed she'd done something wrong whenever her decisions were questioned. In her own words: "I have just owned those so much – like I'm not a good communicator, I did something wrong, I caused this to happen." A single pushback could send her into days of self-doubt.

On a CLG coaching call, she brought a specific conflict: asking her team for a weekly update led one member to accuse her of micromanaging. CLG's teaching on team culture and conflict resolution (content she now uses to train her own team), and hearing other women face nearly identical conflicts, shifted something.

The next similar conflict, she noticed the difference immediately: "I used to question myself, beat myself up, wonder how I could have said it differently, or maybe I should have never asked... but I didn't have any of that this time!" She's since been promoted to Executive Pastor. As she put it: "Realizing that me being in the room is more than what everyone around the table thinks – it's God who asked me to be there. And if He has, then I can have confidence in that."

If that's you, here's what becomes possible once you're finally equipped with what you've been missing:

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Frequently Asked Questions

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I've watched women just like you – talented, called women – run into the same invisible walls I did. 

Early in my ministry career, I'd hesitate every time a conversation turned strategic – whispering my ideas to the guy next to me so he could share them instead. One day, my boss pulled me aside and said, “Kadi, I didn't hire you because of what you can do. I hired you because of how you think. I need you to say it yourself.” 

That's when I realized: it was never a lack of ability or work ethic holding us back. It was a specific gap in training – the same gap I had to close myself.

 

But it doesn't have to be that way for you!

 

I built CLG because I believe every woman leading in the local church needs and deserves the chance to close that gap herself, with the right support alongside her.

My goal is to give you what you need – truth from Scripture, facts from research, plus seasoned guidance – so you can make an informed decision about how God is calling you to lead in your church.

If you resonated with anything here, I don't think that was an accident. Perhaps God is inviting you to something more?

I hope to see you in the cohort!

 

CLG opens twice a year - next enrollment window coming soon. Join the waitlist now, and you'll be the first to know the moment doors open. 

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