What is leadership costing you?
A 12-week coaching cohort for Christian executives producing real results — at too high a personal cost.
Faith-driven execution. Whole-leader health. Executive leaders who've built through both failure and success.
For Christian leaders who want the truth, not the fluff.
It's what growth is costing you.
If these resonate with you, you don't have a growth problem.
You have a weight problem — but weight can be redistributed.
Not another leadership program. A 12-week climb.
From bottleneck to builder.From control to overflow.
The Ascent rebuilds how you lead — decide, delegate, align, confront, execute — and strengthens the systems beneath you, so growth stops fracturing your people, your faith, and your family. Leadership becomes sustainable again.
"Plans fail when there is no counsel, but with many advisers they succeed."Proverbs 15:22
Three peaks. One sustainable summit.
Equip People
Build a team that can carry the mission with you. Clarify roles, strengthen trust, hire better, align people to their strengths, and end the unhealthy dependence on you.
Empower Process
Install systems that reduce chaos and create momentum. Improve communication, decision-making, cultural habits, and change leadership.
Elevate Performance
Develop leaders who deliver results. Coach performance early, have hard conversations clearly, protect strategic focus, and transfer ownership.
Architecture, not theory.
Four of the many plug-and-play tools you'll install over 12 weeks — not a binder of worksheets, but architecture built into how your organization runs.
XCL Hiring OS™
Identify A-players and stop making costly people mistakes.
XCL Accountability Framework™
A clear structure for hard conversations, ownership, and follow-through.
XCL Culture Compounding System™
Build culture by design — the daily behaviors that compound into a high-trust team.
XCL Whole Leader Scorecard™
Strengthen the whole leader — spiritual, relational, emotional, mental, and physical.
The tools aren't the product. They're the architecture.
Faith isn't an add-on. It's stewarding the vision.
For Josh and Franklin, faith isn't a marketing angle — it shapes how you define success, carry authority, and steward people. But this isn't church language dressed up as coaching. It's rigorous, executive-level work grounded in a Christian worldview. Conviction and competence. Prayer and process.
"Better a poor man who lives with integrity than a rich man who distorts right and wrong."Proverbs 28:6
You already feel the calling.
Now build the leadership to carry it.
Most programs give you ideas. We give you implementation.
- 12 weekly group coaching sessions with real assignments
- Proprietary frameworks you install — not just learn
- KPI scorecards and measurable progress
- Whole-leader development: spiritual, relational, mental, physical, organizational
- Accountability with Christian leaders who understand the climb
Josh Chumley and
Franklin Santagate
Decades in the arena, not on the sidelines. Between them, Josh and Franklin have:
- Grown a business from $13M to $42M in 3 years
- Led a $50M organization with 20% margin growth over 24 months
- Led multi-million-dollar funding campaigns
- Scaled organization into 200+ nations
- Built culture in teams of 400+
- Mobilized churches, donors, and decision-makers across the U.S.
They've sat in the pressure, made the hard calls, and bridged the gap between vision and execution.
Book a Call with a Founder →"How do I know it'll work?" You measure it.
The real cost isn't the program — it's another year of being the bottleneck. We don't ask you to take leadership on faith alone. Every climb is measured across four dimensions, with a scorecard from day one.
Grow the business and
get your life back.Not one at the cost of the other.
Revenue and operating margin. Leaders we coach see an average 20% revenue increase in year one.
At least 4 hours a week back within 30 days — for what matters, at work and at home.
Fewer HR issues and rising engagement, tracked through real team feedback — not vibes.
Measurable lift on the KPIs that matter most to your organization.
Grew revenue 20% in her first year of coaching.
From 70-hour weeks to 40 — leading what actually matters.
Grew funding 50% in two years — millions more for the mission.
70+ leaders coached over the past decade — and the climb is measured every time.
The climb is a stair-step.
The Ascent isn't a menu of options — it's a path. Start with a taste, climb with the cohort, then go deeper one-on-one.
A complimentary strategy session — one honest conversation about the weight you're carrying and the path up. Your first taste of the climb.
Book your Base Camp call →The 12-week group cohort: live coaching calls, proprietary tools, and short video lessons you run between sessions, on your schedule — climbing with other Christian leaders.
Book a call with a founder →Go deeper one-on-one after the cohort — our highest-touch coaching, built entirely around you and your organization.
Book a call with a founder →The climb isn't for everyone.
We speak the truth with clarity and lead with humility and bold confidence. We won't tell you what you want to hear — we'll tell you what's true.
This is for you if
- You're a Christian leader running a business or nonprofit with at least one layer of leadership reporting to you.
- Your team, systems, and culture still depend too heavily on you.
- You're producing results — but the current pace isn't sustainable.
- You're ready to confront reality, be coached, and implement change.
This is not for
- Leaders who want a cheerleader, not the truth.
- Leaders chasing inspiration they'll never implement.
- Leaders who won't be coached or told they're wrong.
- Leaders who want new outcomes but won't change how they lead.
- Leaders shopping for cheap instead of right.
How much is your growth waiting on you?
Take the free Leader Lid Score — a 10-minute self-audit of how much your organization runs through you, across the five places the lid sits. Score yourself, see where you're the bottleneck, and get the one move to make first.
We'll send the Lid Score, then a few honest emails on getting the weight off your desk. Unsubscribe anytime.
Do the work. We'll stake our name on it.
Complete Peaks One and Two. If you haven't grown in your faith and gained back the capacity to grow your organization, Peak Three is on us.
You can keep carrying it this way.
Or you can change how you lead.
You've been entrusted with too much to lead in a way that costs you everything. There's a better way up — one that honors the calling, strengthens the organization, and gives you back your margin.
Book a Call with a Founder →Capped at 10 leaders · Founder-led calls are limited · Start with one honest conversation.
Start with a conversation.
No application. No pitch. Just a direct conversation about where you actually are — and whether we can help.
Then it was probably information, not installation. Most coaching hands you ideas and a journal of good intentions. The Ascent installs systems into how your organization runs, holds you to a scorecard, and measures the change — so it outlives the program. It's also why we stake Peak Three on it: do the work, and if it hasn't stuck, we keep climbing with you.
Every climb is measured — margin, time, culture, and performance — on a scorecard from day one. You'll see movement, or we'll know exactly why and adjust.
The reason you don't have time is the problem we fix. Most leaders get 4+ hours a week back inside the first month. And it flexes to your calendar — live group calls, with tools and short videos you run between them.
No. It's a free, honest conversation. If the climb isn't right for you, we'll tell you — and point you somewhere that is.
We'll cover it on the call. It's a serious commitment — sized for leaders who are ready to do the work. If now isn't the right time, we'll tell you.
Talk with a Founder
A free, no-pressure conversation with Josh or Franklin. We'll talk through where you are, where you're trying to go, and whether the climb is right for you.