Craig Millward
- Culture Consultancy
- Leadership Mentoring & Coaching
- Public Speaking
- Teaching & Discipleship
Craig has been a Baptist minister for over 30 years and has extensive experience of the joys and challenges of church leadership.
Most of his church leadership experience was gained over nearly 20 years in a single church in Norfolk. The first three years were spent trying to do it the way he’d been taught in college. That was followed by ten more innovative years trying to reinterpret Baptist ecclesiology for the real world. The final five years were influenced by sabbatical research into discipling movements. He has experience of teaching and lecturing in a variety of contexts and has worked with students, church leaders and church leadership teams.
Craig has a degree in Economics, various pastoral qualifications from Moorlands & Spurgeon’s Colleges, an MA from Oxford University and a PhD in theology and charismatic church history from the London School of Theology. He also has mentoring and coaching qualifications and spent three years working with 3 Dimensional Movements where he gained a good deal of experience in helping others discern the strengths and weaknesses of their church culture and helping them to negotiate the process of development and change.
This unique combination of training and experience provides has equipped Craig to offer coaching to anyone in church leadership who finds themselves in need of some confidential support or guidance. If you would like more details of this offer you can find it below.
Craig loves good conversation, and is never afraid to ask the difficult questions. He reads a lot of politics and psychology, and is often more happy rocking the boat than sitting comfortably in it!
Craig lives in North Derbyshire, is the father of two grown up children and the proud grandfather of Theo. He loves trying new real ales, craft gin and spicy food.
Coaching and Mentoring offer
This is a tough time to be a Christian leader. Most of us have people in our lives we look to for a bit of support and guidance. Sometimes what we really need is someone who is a step removed from our local circumstances who can absorb whatever we feel the need to explore without rushing to judgement or a prescribed answer.
Craig has been in Christian leadership for over 40 years, both as a local church leader and an academic. His journey in leadership has seen some significant successes, a good deal of wrestling both with church culture and embedded theology, and also significant disappointment and pain.
Craig has a degree in Economics, various pastoral qualifications from Moorlands & Spurgeon’s Colleges, an MA from Oxford University and a PhD in theology and charismatic church history from the London School of Theology. He also has Diplomas in mentoring and coaching and spent three years working with 3 Dimensional Movements where he gained a good deal of experience in helping others discern the strengths and weaknesses of their church culture.
He would be willing to come alongside you as a consultant, a mentor, or a coach. He will listen well, helping you discern where you are and where you would like to go, and support you in whatever choices you make. All choices have consequences, especially when we are figureheads in organisations where relationships are central and may be complex. Personal change therefore impacts the organisations we lead and Craig will help you think through and communicate with those who are going to be affected by any personal changes you might decide to make.
Craig is willing to meet in person or over the internet, and offers a 30-minute introductory session for free. The price of each subsequent session will be £80 per hour, with a proportion of this fee going to support the development of the Northumbrian Collective.
Please contact Craig using the button on this page.