Clergy - Nahma Nadich Coaching and Consulting

For Rabbis and Other Clergy

Are you feeling spiritually and physically exhausted by your role? Do you find yourself adrift in a sea of administrative and managerial tasks, leaving you precious little time to tend to your pastoral duties, your family, or your faith? Are you too depleted to be the leader you want to be?

I understand – and I can be your partner in reconnecting with your purpose, reinvigorating your leadership, and forging a path forward.

Growing up as the daughter of a rabbi, I got a firsthand glimpse of the many blessings of serving one’s community as a spiritual leader, along with the very real challenges of sustaining yourself – and your family – in this very public role.

Those challenges have only grown more daunting over the years, as I learned over the last two decades, in collaborating with and consulting with rabbis and ministers across denominations.

You are chosen to be the spiritual guide and leader of a community, whose leadership body also happens to be your employer and manager. You thought you were hired as an individual, but there turn out to be implicit expectations of your spouse and family as well. You were selected to reinvigorate your congregation and attract multitudes of new members (especially young families!) but even the most modest changes you suggest are met with vociferous resistance. You have a passionate commitment to justice, animated by your religious values, but if you deliver a message that anyone sees as “political”, the blowback can reverberate and diminish your standing. And all of the goals you hoped to achieve with, and on behalf of, your community are thwarted by the endless demands to manage the administrative and logistical tasks of your house of worship.

Having a coach who understands the personal, communal, organizational and political dynamics you face, can not only cut through the all too frequent isolation that clergy members experience, but can also help you chart a strategic path to the powerful and principled leadership to which you aspire.

I work with clergy to:

Clarify your most deeply held values
Align your leadership – and scheduling! -choices with those values
Understand the power landscape in which you operate
Discern the values and interests of your congregants
Identify and develop key leaders
Determine and maintain the boundaries you need for a healthy work/life balance
Continually refine your vision for your leadership and hold yourself accountable to it

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Nommi helped us navigate an internal challenge at Keshet with an extraordinary combination of gentle care, keen listening, and insightful analysis. Her presence as a facilitator and guide is both gentle and grounding. She supported us in finding our own way to greater clarity and understanding. I will definitely return to her for support.

Idit Klein, President and CEO, Keshet: For LGBTQ Equality in Jewish Life

I had the pleasure of working with Nommi as a coach and coordinator for our multiracial and multifaith social justice coalition. Nommi’s ability to hold space for all the different opinions and perspectives that emerged in our diverse team without becoming reactive, her patience in staying connected and helping us move forward together (even when we all seemed headed in different directions), and her gracious sense of self and presence that invited honesty and vulnerability were all amazing gifts that lifted us higher. Not to mention her courage, grit, and intellect which she has in spades!

Rev. Austin Almaguer, The Just Power Alliance Formation Team

When I was considering a major career change, Nahma helped me think through how to make sure I would be successful on this new path. With her deep listening skills, warmth, thoughtful questions, and incredibly wise insights and ideas, I came away more confident and armed with ideas and plans that have been essential to my thriving in this new field.

Elana Kogan, Director of Development, JOIN for Justice

Nahma is top flight. Her commitment and skills helped our organization during a critical transition and start up phase. She kept us on track and helped us live into our mission and values. We are better and ready to move to the next phase of our start up organization.

Keisha Krumm, Executive Director/Lead Organizer, Greater Cleveland Congregations

Nommi was the Interim Coordinator for our new network of community organizing groups, the Just Power Alliance. Her relational skills and thoughtfulness about groups and processes helped us navigate a tricky time at the beginning of our organization’s life. Her ability to hold a bigger vision while helping us execute necessary day-to-day work has led to the launch of a new, beautiful organization.

Katie Ashmore Zinler, Lead Organizer, ACT- Anne Arundel Connecting Together

I was taught that effective writing avoids hyperbole. Here’s the problem. I can’t talk about Nommi’s work with the Just Power Alliance without employing superlatives. Our mission became Nommi’s. She helped us to develop and design our culture nourished by our lofty vision while keeping her eyes and ours on the granularities that often get lost in the organizational shuffle. Simply put, the Just Power Alliance would be floundering without Nommi’s expansive spirit, large heart, good humor, and attention to detail and getting the work done. Nommi is the partner your organization needs if your desire is to thrive.

William H. Lamar IV, President, The Just Power Alliance, Pastor, Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, Washington, DC

Nommi is wise, warm, an incredible listener, a creative strategist, and the absolute best person to have in your corner in virtually all circumstances but especially when you are trying to navigate complex situations. She coaches with compassion, she is politically savvy, and she is desperately funny to boot.

Karla Van Praag, Senior Advisor and Former ED of JOIN for Justice