About

After living in Oklahoma and Oregon Ross finished his tour of the "O" states in Ohio the past 15 years. With over 25 years of training experience using the Participant-Centered, best practices of adult learning, Ross has trained hundreds of small group leaders, as well as hundreds of pastors and church planters.

He has extensive personal leadership and consulting experience leading church turnaround, including resolving vision and direction following devastating conflict. God worked through him in the local church and movement leadership to lead complex culture change, conflict leadership, and multiply church planters, pastors, staff members, and volunteer leaders. 

His training journey started with a Masters' Degree in Christian Counseling to gain wisdom on how people change. Adult learning and participant-centered training became a primary expression of his leadership working with small group leaders and more than fifty interns. The result was multiple church planters, pastors and Christian counselors being raised up.

He went on to full-time work as a leadership trainer for 100 churches. During this time, he was trained as a trainer by a top ten corporate trainer in the world. More recently, his doctorate focused on adult learning transfer, integrating participant-centered training in the discipleship and Christian leadership development context. His dissertation has been lauded as "groundbreaking" work by expert practitioners in the training field and formed the basis for the workshop Teaching You To Turn Learning Into Changed Lives: Essential Ministry Skills for Trainers. 

Ross has been married for 38 years to Wendy, a therapist, university psychology professor, pastor, and passionate follower of Jesus. Wendy and Ross have four adult children (including their wonderful daughter-in-law) and are enjoying the recent arrival of their first grandchild.