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PORTFOLIO FOR SUCCESS Leadership is adding value to others. Period.

ABOUT LAVON GRAY CONSULTING GROUP

Dr. L. Lavon Gray served on the senior leadership team at First Baptist Jackson for thirteen years (2005 – 2018), giving direction to one of the premier worship ministries in the United States. As part of his leadership role at First Baptist Jackson, Gray directed the 300-voice sanctuary choir and gave oversight to a ministry with over 1,000 members of all ages.

Since 2007, Dr. Gray has served as Associate Professor of Worship at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, where he served as Associate Dean for the School of Music and director of the Center for Music and Worship, the largest worship leader training program in the world. He’s also the award-winning author of Hungry for Worship: Challenges for Solutions for Today’s Church, which was voted “Best of the Best” by Worship Leader Magazine in 2013.

Dr. Gray holds degrees from the University of Southern Mississippi (B.S., Political Science), New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (M.C.M.) and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (Ph.D.), and has done post-doctoral work at Harvard University, as well as extensive leadership training through the Disney Institute and the John Maxwell Company. Gray is a popular speaker, consultant and lead-ership coach in educational, corporate and religious orga-nizations across the United States. His latest book, Tuning Your Heart for Worship: A Worshipper’s Journey through the Psalms Devotional, was released in 2017.

What does that mean? It means investing in people one individual at a time. It means transforming the way you lead to be more effective. It means to not have power, but to empower.

We offer leadership development using SIX CORE LEARNING SYSTEMS that will take you and your team to a new level of leadership.

Everyone Communicates, Few Connect

Leadership Gold

Put Your Dream to the Test

How to Be a Real Success

Learning to Become a Person of Influence

Leadership isadding value to others. Period.

The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth

CREATIVE DEVELOPMENTLEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

“A leader is great, not because of his or her power, but be-cause of his or her ability to empower others.” - John C. Maxwell

We use the John Maxwell Team approach to train business leaders, ministry leaders, and ed-ucators to develop and expand their leadership skill palette. These six core learning systems address key aspects of leadership development such as vision casting, developing relation-ships and conflict management.

CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT

COACHING

Many times personal potential remains untapped. With

more than thirty-five years of experience in worship lead-

ing Dr. Lavon Gray has hands-on experience in devel-

oping skills that transcend generations and help leaders

perform to their potential.

We provide 1-on-1 coaching, as well as group coaching,

to equip you and your team with the leadership skills that

they need.

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

LUNCH AND LEARN

You will be surprised how much you can learn

in under an hour, especially when your group

comes together in this Lunch & Learn experi-

ence facilitated by John Maxwell Team certified

team member, Dr. L. Lavon Gray.

In this one-hour session, Dr. Gray will share with

you some of the most insightful tips and strate-

gies acquired over decades of leadership ex-

perience. These ideas can immediately be put

into practice to get the best out of yourself, your

team or your organization.

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

MASTERMIND GROUPS

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

The sum of two minds thinking together on a topic is greater than their individual parts. That’s the premise behind mastermind groups. They are together a mastermind.

Take a journey with us - a group of emotionally and invested thinkers. Together we will grow and learn the essentials of leadership.

WORSHOPS AND RETREATS

Does your staff need a time of focus to learn specific skills? Our seminars and worshops are designed to provide that kind of access to experts who can transfer knowledge in a short period of time.

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

CREATIVE DEVELOPMENTCREATIVE DEVELOPMENT

CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT AND MARKETING

We have a team of professionals who specialize in creating meaningful content that can increase your digital exposure and transform your entire message strategy. From social media tactics to website development and copywriting, we can help you better position yourself so that your mes-sage is in the front of the pack.

Creativity - the mother of invention.

CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT

ABOUT OUR CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT

Allison Talley is the lead creative consultant for Lavon Gray Consulting Group. With a background in software development and project management, Allison has led teams all over the globe to create solutions that work. With technology degrees and a patent in Personaliza-tion and Content Management (and two others pend-ing), she understands how to create content that works with modern-day algorithms to optimize results.

Allison spent seventeen years developing hospital soft-ware before moving to the telecommunications indus-try to develop mobile apps and websites all designed to deliver a great customer experience and to engage audiences with valuable content. She has worked for PGA Entertainment, ABC Disney, NBC Universal, WeatherNation, and a variety of other content creation studios. She has worked most recently as the Director of Communications for First Baptist Church of Jackson where she has led creative teams to deliver new digital worship experiences locally and abroad through televi-sion and Internet ministries.

CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT

WEBSITE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT

A core part of our offering is the design and development of beautiful websites. Your website is the front door to your organization and we use an agile methodology to

teach you how to create copy quickly and use your website to grow yourorganization.

DIGITAL GROWTH

CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT

Your digital presense now is as important as your physical

presense. Using our experience, proven best practices,

and extensive knowledge about algorithms and backend

technologies that power some of the most progressive

tools on the market today, our team will help you create

digital goals and grow your audience.

SOCIAL MEDIA GROWTH

WEBSITE ENGAGEMENT

EMAIL MARKETING

INTERNET TV

DIGITAL MARKETING

CONTENT STRATEGY

CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT

There are a million ways to say something but only a few ways to make a statement. What if your

content did just that? What if it told your story and made a statement for your organization that

gave you the edge and put you at the top of search engine results?

That’s what we do. We create a strategy to help you develop copy, metadata, images, videos,

blogs, and other forms of media that show how compelling your organization really is. Whether it’s

for print or digital, we will create the strategy to deliver your message in a clear way.

PRODUCTION

CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT

We’ve produced thousands of hours of short-form video for promotions and to drive engagement

through social media. We’re able to use live stream platforms to produce content that keeps audi-

ences interested and wanting more. From small promotions to large award-winning programming,

our group can deliver cutting-edge productions within any budget.

We also have extensive experience in automated speech recognition and leverage that technol-

ogy for all productions to optimize for search engines. With patents pending in video production

and analytics, we are confident we can teach you how to produce and deliver productions that will

make you successful.

CREATIVE DEVELOPMENTSTRATEGIC PLANNING

STRATEGIC PLANNING

“No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy.”

Do you have a written strategic plan? How about a marketing plan? If you do, when was the last time you reviewed or updated them? Were they used only as part of your business plan to get financing or are you using them as a road map to your success?

Not having a written strategic or marketing plan for your business, church or school is like driving a race car with the pedal to the metal and the

windshield painted black—you don’t know when to turn and are sure to crash. That’s why you need us.

We can help you clarify your vision and mission, and most importantly, execute the plan to reach your goals. We help you identify clear, deliver-able, manageable action steps that take your business to the next level and beyond!

STRATEGIC PLANNING

CHURCH CONSULTING

What if an experienced ministry leader could bring your team a fresh perspective on your strategies, systems and structure?

Our CHURCH CHECK-UP gives you a current snapshot of your ministry’s health and helps to best position your church to fulfill its vision. Here’s how it works:

LEADERSHIP SURVEYYour hand-selected leadership base will complete ministry surveys to give us an unbiased understanding of your church’s health. This process allows us to design a ministry strategy, unique and specific for your church, for engaging with your team.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS VISITHave you ever wondered what guests really think about your church? We’ll send a “first-time guest” to your campus to experience your various service weekend environments. This helps us get to know you. It also allows us to give you some insights into how a first-timer experiences your services.

ON-SITE VISITDr. Gray will travel to your church for an on-site visit with you and your leadership team. This typically includes a focused conversation with the senior pastor and group sessions with your staff team and lay leadership team. The pur-pose of this process is to determine what’s working and where there’s opportunity for improvement. We’ll take a look back at where you’ve come from and assess where you are currently.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARYWe’ll deliver an executive summary with observations, comparisons of various benchmarks to like-minded churches and specific recommendations for next steps. Don’t be surprised if we encourage you to engage in a full strategic op-erating plan process. We want to help you turn vision into action.

FOLLOW-UPWe’ll schedule a follow-up call or video chat to review the executive summary together. We want to answer questions and point you in the right direction so that you are confident in your next steps. Our follow-up process is designed around FOUR DISTINCT PHASES and includes multiple visits to your church campus to facilitate group exercises and one-on-one meetings with key leaders, as well as virtual coaching sessions throughout the engagement.

In phase one, which is outlined above, you will gain perspective as we help you assess your church’s health. Phase two is the planning phase, where you clarify your mission, vision and core strategies. In phase three, we help you align your structure to your vision. Phase four is the action phase, and we walk with you as you begin leading change.

NEXT STEPS

Let’s get started! Contact Lavon Gray Consulting Group and we’ll start our partnership. We’re only a

touch away from teaching you the leadership skills that you need to transform your organization.