Michael L. Forney

Michael Forney is the founder of Gravitational Leadership a company that serves Christian leaders and whose focus is on providing coaching, content and community to help leaders experience transformation and tangible help that results in an immediate boost and long-term health to the churches they lead. His most recent book, Gravity: Seven Essential Truths About Influence, Leadership and Your Soul, which he coauthored with Ron Kuest, which was released in May of 2016.

Michael is a missional practitioner with experience as a lead pastor of a turnaround church and in executive staff roles. He has served in churches of under 50 to over 2500 in average weekly attendance in rural, urban, and suburban settings. Michael brings experience and an insightful perspective to pastors and churches that moves them forward towards health, mission and growth. He also spent time in the corporate world leading a startup software company that created a marketing platform for the publishing industry. Michael leverages his extensive background as a pastor, entrepreneur, executive, and leadership coach to bring strategic and innovative perspectives to pastors, helping them to identify growth opportunities, create healthy culture, develop good systems, solve complex problems, and apply winning strategies to their unique context. He provides a new perspective and activates confidence in pastors who are leading churches at various stages on the organizational life cycle helping them to create new growth. Michael is regularly called upon to advise church leaders to evaluate trends, ministry models, church systems, financial strategies, and organizational health. He is ordained with the Free Methodist Church; a certified coach with the Turnaround Church Coaching Network; and a certified Spiritual Leadership Traits Assessment Coach.