Seasoned Consulting Services for Christ-Centered Organizations
FaithSearch Advisors
Strategic guidance to strengthen your leaders and initiatives.
FaithSearch Advisors is a trusted platform of seasoned consultants providing Christ-centered leaders and organizations with personalized, strategic guidance to elevate leadership effectiveness, navigate change, and fulfill mission with clarity and confidence.
Why FaithSearch Advisors?
Christ Centered
Every engagement is grounded in biblical principles, spiritual discernment, and Kingdom-minded wisdom. We live our faith and love to serve.
Deep Experience
Our advisors are former CEOs, consultants, board leaders, and spiritual directors with experience across healthcare, higher education, nonprofits, K–12 education, and more.
Tailored & Trusted
We offer the right voice for the right moment — matching each client with an advisor based on mission fit, leadership style, and contextual needs.
Proven Legacy
FaithSearch Advisors is built on the strong foundation of trust, and impact from FaithSearch Partners 1,000+ executive searches and 98% success rate.
“For we are created in His image to do good works, which He prepared in advance for us to do…”
Advisory Services
Executive Coaching
Personalized coaching for leaders, teams, or boards to elevate performance, strengthen purpose, and cultivate spiritual resilience.
Succession Planning
Support for planned or unplanned leadership transitions — including leadership evaluations, succession frameworks, and interim leadership.
Financial Advisory
Consulting and strategic planning to evaluate financial health, prioritize programmatic investments, and ensure long-term mission sustainability.
Crisis Management
Real-time support and executive advisement during moments of disruption, public scrutiny, or organizational crisis.
Strategic Planning
Guided, actionable strategic planning sessions that align organizational mission, priorities, and execution in faith-based contexts.
Leadership Evaluations
Assessments examine cultural health, leadership effectiveness, and team dynamics to ensure leadership is aligned with the mission.
Education Strategy
Insights and strategies tailored to Christian schools and universities seeking enrollment growth, program innovation, or governance.
Donor & Board Engagement
Strengthening organizational governance and fundraising by aligning boards and donors with strategic goals.
Decades of Success in Faith-Driven Industries
We provide personalized, strategic guidance to faith-driven leaders and organizations seeking to maximize their leadership effectiveness, navigate transitions, and align action with mission. Whether you are facing a challenge, pursuing a new opportunity, or stewarding a season of growth, FaithSearch Advisors helps leaders move forward with clarity, confidence, and conviction, whether they work in higher education, healthcare, K-12 Christian schools, private equity, law, governance, nonprofit ministries, finance, operations or business development.
How We Work
1. Confidential Debrief
We begin with a discovery session to understand your challenge, opportunity, and organizational context.
2. Advisor Match
We prayerfully match you with one or more advisors based on experience, expertise, and spiritual alignment.
3. Scope & Strategy
Together, we define a scope of work, timeline, and outcomes to ensure clarity, momentum, and measurable success.
4. Engagement Launch
With clarity of purpose and alignment of expectations, the advisor relationship begins — with full support and regular feedback loops.
FaithSearch Advisors News & Articles
The Leadership Lagrange Effect
The Leadership Lagrange Effect
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Beyond the Hire: Introducing FaithSearch Advisors
Beyond the Hire: Introducing FaithSearch Advisors
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FaithSearch Partners Launches FaithSearch Advisors
FaithSearch Partners Launches FaithSearch Advisors
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Sherilyn Emberton, Ed.D.
Senior Advisory Consultant
Dr. Sherilyn R. Emberton serves as the inaugural Managing Partner of FaithSearch Advisors, the newly launched advisory services division of FaithSearch Partners.
Andy Westmoreland. Ed.D.
Senior Vice President, Education
Andy Westmoreland leads FaithSearch Partners Higher Education service line, which has been serving academic institutions for nearly 15 years.
Mark Ishikawa
Vice President
Mark Ishikawa leverages his extensive leadership experience to help faith-based organizations recruit top executive talent.
Jacqueline Gustafson, Ed.D.
Vice President
Dr. Jacqueline Gustafson joined FaithSearch Partners’ Higher Education practice after a successful career in higher education and nonprofits.
Kimberley Wiedefeld
Vice President
Kimberley Wiedefeld brings a wealth of experience and expertise in higher education and non-profit marketing.
Porsche Schooley
Senior Vice President, Administrative Services
Porsche provides oversight which assists FaithSearch consultants in executing high-quality search services for the firm’s clients.
Courtney Fry
Senior Vice President
Courtney has developed a deep understanding of executive search, having worked in the industry since 2007. As Senior Vice President, she is experienced across every client industry including healthcare, nonprofit, and more.
