Healthy leaders cultivate healthy churches

Laidlaw Centre for Church Leadership exists to bless, love, and serve the Church of Aotearoa New Zealand by providing its leaders with the tools, support, and guidance they need to flourish.

How we serve the Church


A focused, sustained, and purposeful engagement aimed at the wholistic development of leaders and the coaches they serve.

Coaching for Church Leaders


Resourcing for church health and discipleship

Cultivating a resource hub of contextually-grounded and research-informed best practice for church leadership in Aotearoa.


Growing a supportive ecosystem with and for church leaders

Fostering peer support in geographic and missional contexts, curating spaces for local, regional, and national collaboration, and networking to disseminate best practice.


Supporting the growth of pastoral leadership pathways

Championing healthy and innovative leadership formation and multiplication of people prepared to serve the church in Aotearoa.

A group of people inside a church with wooden walls and stained glass windows, some sitting and some standing, engaged in conversation and singing.

Our Coaching Programme

At Laidlaw Centre for Church Leadership we journey alongside church leaders to support them and respond to their particular needs on an individual basis, equipping and empowering them to better serve God, their families, churches and communities. To achieve this, we advocate for 1:1 coaching — a regular conversation with a trained professional who comes from their own lived ministerial background. Coaching sessions are focussed, sustained, and purposeful; with the ultimate goal of equipping leaders with the tools they need to lead confidently through the complexities of their role.


Jeremiah 3:15

Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will lead you with knowledge and understanding