The Meeting Where Nothing Was Decided
The meeting runs long. Everyone shares updates. Good conversation happens. And then no decision is actually made - because nobody in the room owns the discipline.
Ad Alta Leadership
Advisory and consulting for Catholic institutions -
technology, mission, and organizational effectiveness.
Most Catholic institutions are running sophisticated missions on tools nobody chose deliberately.
Donor records in one system, sacramental records in another, and registration in a third. A development office that cannot see who lapsed. A chancery where the answer to most questions is that somebody would have to pull it together.
I am a permanent deacon of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois. I am also a thirty-year veteran of media, marketing, and technology - most recently a director at Adobe, leading a global consulting practice of more than a hundred people.
Both halves matter here. The technology work is the same work I did for enterprise clients. Knowing what a chancery actually is, how a parish actually runs, and why a good idea dies in a pastoral staff meeting is the other half, and it is not something you can learn from outside.
Ad Alta brings enterprise-grade data, CRM, and constituent journey practice to institutions that have had very little access to it - along with the mission clarity and organizational work that determines whether any of it has an impact.
Read more →Technology
Constituent data, CRM, parishioner and donor journeys, analytics, and the integration between parish, diocesan, and foundation systems.
Mission
Clarity of purpose, ministry & program alignment, communications strategy, and how an institution knows whether something is working.
Organizational Effectiveness
Decision rights, role clarity, change that actually gets adopted, and the operating rhythm underneath all of it.
Who I work with
Dioceses and chanceries, Catholic foundations, parishes, Catholic schools, apostolates, and nonprofits.
Recent Writing
The Sentence a Catholic Institution Can Speak with One Voice
Most Catholic institutions can answer what they exist to do, richly and honestly - and differently from every seat. The question is whether they have woven them into one.
What Ad Alta has become
Ad Alta has become advisory and consulting for Catholic institutions - technology, mission, and organizational effectiveness. Here is what changed and why.
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The first conversation is free and takes about twenty minutes. I want to hear what is in front of you and tell you honestly whether I am the right person for it.
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