Testimonials
Yohan Larochelle, Board Chair, River's Edge Community Church
"It has been a privilege to work with Heather. Her great expertise in various domains (finances, HR, strategy, governance, coaching…) have been instrumental to manage an important transition in our church. Her interpersonal skills and strong personal maturity make her a very effective communicator with a lot of doigté, tact and some aplomb when needed."
Tanya Nace, CEO, World Hope International Canada
" I can’t recommend Heather enough! She has walked our board and governance committee through implementing our policy governance model. She has taken us from a place of fast growth with confusion in governance to a place of clarity and strategic thinking so we can be even more effective at our mission. She is professional, highly skilled, leads with a servant’s heart and works with us in each step of the change management."
Doug Schonberg, Board Chair, PAN Missions
“PAN really needed to do the work of clarifying our mission, what ministries would receive our focus, and what policies we needed to create and update. You are empowering ministries with this really important work you are doing. It is allowing us to return our attention to ministry engagement."
Stephen Barkley, Director of Pastoral Leadership, Master's College & Seminary
"Heather was an immense blessing to my church and leadership team when I was in pastoral ministry. She has great knowledge and experience and was able to contextualize her approach to our own unique church setting."
Graham English, Christian & Missionary Alliance, Western District
"Heather's combination of research, best practice, and theological integration provided a rich learning opportunity for our leaders. As well, her online facilitation was engaging and invited participation from those attending."
Heather Janes, CEO Christie Gardens
"Heather's commitment to understanding and serving my organization and its mission was so evident in her preparation, facilitation, and follow up for our board retreat."
Char Quiring, Founder, Sisterhood YXE
" Our ministry team hired Heather to help us transition from a current team structure to one that would position us for future growth. Heather was so wonderful to work with—she listened to understand the DNA of our team and ministry, what our needs were, and helped lead us into a structure that felt like us."
Nathan Maskery, Lead Pastor Transformation Church
" Working with Heather to establish a board for our church plant has been an absolute joy. Heather is highly skilled, professional, and she understands the unique dynamics of establishing church boards. I look forward to passing her name on to others--Heather is top shelf!"
Rev. Terry Bone, Leadership Consultant, I.D. Ministries
"Heather possesses a rare combination of character, skills and passion for assisting leaders. I first contracted Heather as a mediator for a church experiencing serious division. Her calm manner, combined with extraordinary insight, produced a favourable resolution in a difficult situation. Subsequently our charity hired Heather as a ministry consultant. With her guidance, our board was able to quickly clarify our options and strategize a path forward. I highly recommend Five Smooth Stones as a valuable leadership resource for charities, churches and Kingdom-minded organizations."
Stacey Campbell, President & CEO, Prison Fellowship Canada
We highly recommend Heather to any organization. Her expertise in governance, experience and insight all converged to create materials and workshops that were exactly tailored to who we are as a ministry. Heather is reassuring to work with, and the outcomes are brilliant.
Lynn Weaver, Senior Program Manager, The Canadian Refugee Sponsorship Agreement Holders Association
"Heather was an amazing ally in fostering a shift for our volunteer Council from a "working board" to a "governance board". A clear, kind, and concise communicator, Heather gently nudged things along while hearing and taking on-board concerns and ideas along the way. "
Sam Chaise, Chair, Interim Management Committee, Spring Garden Church
"We engaged Heather Card to help us discover suitable ways of assessing our church’s health and mission as we began a period of transition after the retirement of a long-serving Lead Pastor. Heather brought to us a sensitive, wise, and rich blending of wisdom from Scripture and from the world of organizations and management. This was set in context of a sensitivity that recognized that we ourselves needed to discern God’s voice in our particular setting.
We were impressed with Heather’s ability to listen deeply and to reflect back to us what she had heard, while weaving it into what we still needed to discover for ourselves. Her wisdom is theologically-rooted and organizationally-wise, and in a few short sessions she was able to empower us to move forward in our season of transition."