There is a list of conversations your leadership team is not having.
You know it. They know it. The conversations sit in the corner of every meeting, quietly waiting for someone to bring them up. Most weeks, nobody does.
The succession question that has been hanging in the air for two years. The staff dynamic everyone tiptoes around. The missional decision that has been postponed three times. The pipeline gap that gets mentioned and then dropped. The honest assessment of where your church really is.
These are the conversations that determine your church’s future. And they are the conversations most leadership teams avoid the longest.
Beyond Sunday is built to start those conversations for you. Hosted by Dr. Rupert Loyd and Dr. Gia Tatone, every episode opens up one of the leadership conversations your team has been postponing—in a format that is honest, practical, and missionally grounded.
Use Beyond Sunday as a leadership conversation starter:
- Choose one episode that touches a topic your team has been avoiding.
- Listen to it together before your next leadership meeting.
- Open the conversation with one question: What is the truth we have been avoiding?
The honest leadership conversations the church needs do not start themselves. They need someone to open the door.
When leadership teams avoid the conversations that matter, mission slows, trust erodes, and the next generation of leaders watches from the sidelines. When teams have those conversations courageously and together, churches gain the clarity to advance.
Subscribe to Beyond Sunday today on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Then bring one episode into your next leadership meeting. The conversations your team needs to be having are closer than you think.
Dr. Rupert Loyd Jr.
Dr. Rupert Loyd Jr. has a BA in history from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, an MDiv from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Boston, and a PhD in Leadership from Union University in Cincinnati. He has over 40 years of pastoral experience in both urban and suburban churches, including multiethnic, multi-congregational churches. Throughout his career, he has maintained a presence in both the church and the academy. Dr. Loyd currently teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in the College of Business and Leadership at Lourdes University, and he holds the post of lead pastor at Marketplace Community Church in Toledo, Ohio.
Dr. Gia Tatone
Dr. Gia Tatone is a leader, educator, and award-winning author who lectures at Robert Morris University, Penn State University, and Winebrenner Theological Seminary, teaching organizational leadership, communication, and conflict resolution. She has developed executive-level leadership training and previously served on the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s Board of Trustees as Chair of External Relations, as well as in local government. Named one of the top 50 influential women in the U.S. in Role Call: Women’s Voices, she recently coled an international research team studying God’s calling in the workplace. Dr. Tatone presents her work nationally and internationally and lives in Western Pennsylvania with her husband.