Institute
for Resilient Leaders

Create a Culture of Hopeful Care

Live and On-Demand Training with On-Call Chaplain Support

You Could be the one

Leading Them
Back to Hope

Care teams are under pressure. Nearly 25% of nurses plan to leave within the year, and replacing one RN typically costs over $60K. Staff now need 2.5x times more frequent and meaningful connection at work. Without intentional support, burnout costs rise, and care culture erodes. 

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You Are Not Alone

Recovering Hopeful Purpose teaches care teams how to lead conversations that elicit hopefulness, purpose, and confidence to take action. Research informed strategies, taught by an experienced chaplain.

Here's the Plan

Let's Get You Started

A flexible, people-centered roadmap designed to evaluate your organization’s current readiness, deliver high-impact training format choices, and provide dedicated advisory support tailored to your team.

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Establish Your Team Readiness Baseline

Map your organization's current operational capacity. Take our brief, research-informed assessment to receive a complimentary snapshot of your team's goal-execution readiness and focus.

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Choose Your
Training Format

Select the optimal instructional delivery format for your schedule. Provide immediate access to our 90-minute, on-demand recorded sessions or coordinate a fully interactive, custom live group workshop for teams.

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Choose Your
Integration Level

Anchor these vital tools within your organization through direct expert backing. Choose between single follow-up sessions, targeted leadership packages, or a flexible, dedicated month-to-month chaplain retainer.

Choose Integration Level
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MEET YOUR GUIDE

I Am Here to
Support Your Team.

I have spent my career operating in environments where grief, leadership, and crisis meet at the exact same table. Serving first as an infantryman and later as an Army chaplain and medical professional, I have navigated the raw realities of frontline trauma firsthand.

True leadership isn’t managed from a textbook—it is forged in the trenches alongside the people doing the hardest work.

Over the years, I have supported soldiers, healthcare professionals, and executive leaders through some of their most challenging organizational and personal shifts.

Focused Pathways® brings together those pressure-tested tools with research-backed frameworks to help you clear out workplace friction and protect your culture. Let’s get your team stabilized.

Warmly,

Ryan McCollum, MDiv

Vanguard ministries

We work with the best companies.

FAQ

What exactly happens during an Individual Integration Session?

It is a private, 60-minute online session with the instructor, scheduled directly here through our website booking system. This time is entirely yours to untangle whatever you need—whether that means asking deeper questions about class strategies, figuring out how to apply the frameworks to your personal life, or troubleshooting communication friction at work. It is an open-door, highly flexible strategy session tailored completely to your current situation.

Yes, because true resilience is holistic—and the data demands it. Roughly one-third of our framework specifically addresses research-backed strategies for religious coping and spiritual care, across faith traditions.

Data shows that nearly two-thirds (2/3) of individuals seeking care are actively looking for an integration of their personal spirituality. When care teams overlook this dimension—leaving it completely out of a nursing care plan or a clinical support strategy—they are fundamentally failing to deliver the comprehensive, personalized care that people are explicitly looking for.

As a chaplain, my goal isn’t to impose a specific belief system, but to equip your staff with the tools to honor and integrate the faith traditions of others into their daily practices. By bridging this critical, frequently ignored gap, we ensure your care teams provide a truly holistic experience that honors the dignity of both the provider and the patient.

Completely flexible. We design this to fit the messy operational realities of busy care teams and leadership schedules. You can mix, match, or scale your support up or down as your organizational needs change.

Here is how you can build out your support:

  • Start with Workshops or Asynchronous Training: Train your core team live or let them learn on their own time through asynchronous modules. If people miss it, you can easily plug in stragglers or new hires later on without disrupting the momentum.

  • Sponsor 1:1 Individual Integration Sessions: Purchase single 60-minute sessions or a 3-Session Package for yourself or specific staff members who need immediate, confidential support applying the strategies.

  • Move to a Dedicated Monthly Retainer: The ultimate worry-free option. Transition to a flat-rate, monthly renewing retainer that grants your entire staff open access to the instructor. You never have to worry about tracking who is booking, counting remaining sessions, or dealing with internal approval paperwork every time a team member needs care.

Whether you want to test the waters with a single session or completely outsource your team’s resilience support on a monthly basis, we can pivot whenever you are ready.

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