Doing good work should feel energizing, not exhausting.
How I Can Help
I would love to work together with you to bring clarity, alignment, and life giving ways of working so you can be empowered to improve your community. My approach is relational and always begins with a conversation to understand, as it would be impossible for me to automatically be an expert on your context. What I can immediately do is bring resources, my networks, and perspectives gained through experience to walk alongside you and your organization as you grow and develop. Once I understand what you need and your budget, I can provide a customized proposal outlining the timeline, deliverables, and terms of agreement. The services listed here represent possibilities and are not an exhaustive list. Let’s have a 30 minute no obligation phone or Zoom call to determine what you need specifically.
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Organizations need to know who they are and where they are going. Strategic planning is the intentional way to clarify mission, vision, and values, as well as proactively discern the way to move forward. I can provide a strategic planning process that normally looks like three 75 minute sessions and a deliverable of a report with feedback, recommendations, and clear goals.
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All leaders need support to maximize the impact of their organization and their own potential. My approach to executive coaching is to walk alongside you to provide resources, guidance, accountability, and encouragement. A typical package looks like two 60 minute sessions a month along with a report that includes goals and resources.
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Organizations, particularly churches, are at their best when they are meaningfully engaged in their community. I can provide a training for organizations to research their communities, understand their assets, and determine how to move forward. The training consists of eight 75 minute sessions with homework and resources. The outcome is a proposal for an experiment to begin or deepen meaningful community impact, along with recommendations for funding the idea. This training is best suited for a network of organizations (like a district, city, conference, etc.)
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All organizations, whether consciously or unconsciously, have a culture that shapes behaviors. Good organizations have a healthy culture, bad organizations have a toxic culture, and the best organizations intentionally craft an aspirational culture that drives desired outcomes. I have an exercise for an organization to define its culture that looks like one 90 minute session and a deliverable of a complete draft of the organizational culture and recommended next steps.
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‘Placemaking’ is the ongoing practice of maintaining and enhancing the cultural and physical aspects of a place, often in a community context. Most organizations, especially churches, have underutilized assets that could be leveraged to make community impact and create new revenue streams. Through a site visit, I can provide a customized report with resources and recommendations for next steps. You can see an example of this work here.
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Many organizations do not know if they are effective. Evaluation is the process to determine if what you are attempting to do is working. I have significant experience designing and implementing evaluation systems. A typical engagement looks like three sessions to determine what you want to evaluate, as well as a process for how we will collect and interpret feedback.
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Human FACE Consulting exists to spark development for mission driven organizations like churches, higher education institutions, and non-profits. Its mission is to catalyze organizations to be better than they could be on their own, equipping and empowering leaders to improve their communities. The core principle of Human FACE is ‘Be a good human and apply that mentality to systems.’ My approach is the same for any job: listen first to understand the context, and then recommend a way forward. You can expect that I will listen carefully, be solution focused, and provide a high level of integrity where I will meet deadlines and follow-through on what we agreed to do.
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The ‘Human’ in Human FACE refers to my research on humanizing higher education systems. The research demonstrates that effective senior higher education administrators are thinking like good humans and applying that mindset to their area of oversight. Send me a message to request a summary of this research. The ‘FACE’ in Human FACE is an acronym for ‘faith and community engagement.’ Faith communities are at their best when they are meaningfully engaged in improving their local communities.
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Todd Maberry is the founder and lead consultant for Human FACE. He has over 20 years of experience as an administrative leader at Duke University where he oversaw Academics, Admissions, and Financial Aid offices, as well as managing a research center that catalyzed organizational development for churches. An ordained clergy person in the United Methodist Church with more than 20 years of ministry experience, Todd has planted a missional house church and been a pastor at several urban, rural and suburban churches that ranged in membership from 20 to 20,000. As a pastor, he has developed a personable approach to officiating weddings, funerals, and baptisms. Todd is an institutional entrepreneur and a creative pragmatist.
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With a rare blend of education and 20+ years of leadership experience in church and higher ed spaces, I bring both strategic expertise, resources, and a deep understanding of the human realities inside complex organizations. I have led multi million-dollar initiatives in community engagement, enrollment, and fundraising while carrying real responsibility for people, budgets, and mission. That experience shapes my consulting approach: practical, relational, and grounded in what actually works. I help leaders create clarity, alignment, and healthier systems so good people can do meaningful work without burning out. Above all, I lead by listening because sustainable change starts with honoring the humans involved.
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I am energized by walking alongside leaders and teams as they listen to their context, discern their gifts, and reimagine how their people and assets can serve the common good. I am most drawn to challenges where communities care deeply about their neighbors but are unsure how to live out that calling in sustainable, life-giving ways. Much of my work lives in spaces of transition, where communities are open to change and asking hard questions about purpose, belonging, and impact. In those moments, I help foster clarity, trust, and shared commitment so communities can engage more fully and faithfully with the world around them.
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PhD in Higher Education Leadership | NC State University
Master of Public Administration | NC State University
Master of Divinity | Duke Divinity School
Bachelor of Arts | Olivet Nazarene University
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