Segment One Basic Skills Coach Training

Meet Your Instructors

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  Dawn Alitz

  Dr. Alitz’s expertise is in the area of adult faith formation, coaching, and program coordination. Before joining the Luther staff in 2016, she had over twenty years of experience in congregational leadership in both mission-start and established congregations. She has her ACC credentialing with the International Coaching Federation, trained with the Global Team Coaching Institute, and is well-known within ELCA and ecumenical circles for her work with adaptive leadership, developing online learning opportunities, and collaborating with various networks of educational and synodical professionals. Dr. Alitz's role at Luther places her in a unique position to equip leaders to engage the Gospel in the 21st century by designing, piloting, and building out new business models for theological education and congregational leadership.

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  Nathan Swenson-Reinhold

  The Rev. Dr. Nathan Swenson-Reinhold is driven by a ravenous curiosity about people with a passion to help them midwife their dreams in their lives and work. He has served from the lead seat in three congregations over 17 years and knows what it means to shoulder the weight of organizational change, transformation, and mission. He has excelled in the areas of congregational culture change, leadership development, and organizational impact. With a doctorate in leadership and cultural architecture from Portland Seminary of George Fox University, he is a Professional Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation and is a certified DISC behavioral consultant. He is also a coach trainer and content designer for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and for Faith + Lead. His ministry is now being channeled full-time through Summit Coaching and Behavioral Consulting where he does facilitation, training, and coaching, and through GSB Fundraising where he works with organizations and faith communities on strategic planning, non-profit stewardship processes, annual appeals, and capital campaigns. Both allow for full expression of Nathan’s passion for the development and empowerment of human beings and communities. Most importantly, he is husband to Erin, and father to Sam, Ephraim and Emma. In his downtime he enjoys yard work, detailing the family cars, playing guitar, weightlifting, reading sci-fi novels, photography, turning pens, fly-fishing, and long conversations on back porches over good red wine or bourbon!