FRACTIONAL LEADERSHIP
Executive
leadership,
scaled to you.
Decades of executive pastoral and operational experience embedded in your team — and a clear path to handing the seat to your future leader.
THE APPROACH
→ Guide organizational direction and weight-bearing decisions
→ Build, train, and empower your ministry and ops teams
→ Install systems and rhythms that scale without breaking
→ Mentor your future executive into the seat
→ Guide organizational direction and weight-bearing decisions
→ Build, train, and empower your ministry and ops teams
→ Install systems and rhythms that scale without breaking
→ Mentor your future executive into the seat
A real partner.
A part of your team, embedded in your culture.
As your fractional executive, we sit on your team — invested in the outcome, accountable for results, and committed to building something that lasts past our contract.
We bring the same posture as a full-time hire, scaled to fit your context, your stage, and your budget. The goal isn't a deck on a shelf. It's clarity, structure, and systems your team can actually run.
Designed for clarity, not noise
Built for real-world church complexity.
Led by practitioners, not career consultants
The Operating System
Built on the
SundayOS™️
Framework
Every fractional engagement runs on SundayOS™️— the proprietary operating system we’ve developed and refined, serving churches of every size and context, from 60 to over 20,000+ in attendance.
the engagment
You need a person on your team living in “the weeds”.
Our deepest level of partnership. Not just a leadership gap-fill — a sustainable, long-term organizational solution that ends with your future Executive Pastor sitting in the seat.
We leverage external expertise to build foundational frameworks while actively mentoring the internal leader who will own the role when we hand it off. Every engagement is a partnership built on SundayOS™️.
DELIVERABLE / 01
Internal Leader Development
Active mentoring and capacity-building of a high-potential internal leader identified as the future Executive Pastor. The seat is being prepared from day one.
DELIVERABLE / 02
Four On-Site Engagements
A Weekend Experience Audit plus three additional on-site workshops and integration sessions — distributed across the year to mirror real organizational seasons.
DELIVERABLE / 03
Monthly Coaching
Dedicated monthly coaching for both the Senior Pastor and the identified internal successor — running in parallel, not in sequence.
DELIVERABLE / 04
Full SundayOS Installation
The 4 Pillars installed across your staff — frameworks, scorecards, rhythms, and the operating cadence your team will run for years.
DELIVERABLE / 05
Active Succession Planning
We act as the external Executive Pastor, transferring systems and authority to your internal leader on a month-by-month basis. By month twelve, they own it.
DELIVERABLE / 06
RightSeat Backstop
If an internal successor isn't the right fit, Keith and the RightSeat team run a parallel external search at no additional retainer cost.
the outcomes
We hear the same things from our partners…
01
Strategic Focus
“We stopped having the same meeting three times a month. Decisions actually land now."“
02
Team Health
"Two of our directors stepped up in ways I didn't see coming. The bench is deeper than I knew."
03
Operational Strength
We made our last three hires in half the time it used to take — and the new people aren't drowning."
04
Pastoral Margin
"I got my Saturdays back. I haven't preached this rested in years."
05
Trusted Counsel
"There was one number I could call when the wheels were coming off. Every senior pastor needs that."
→ Between 400 and 2,500 in weekend attendance
→ Carrying 10–30 staff who need a leader who can lead leaders
→ Sitting on a high-potential internal leader who could be your next XP (executive pastor)
→ Wanting executive horsepower without a full-time line item
→ Ready to commit to a 12-month build rather than a quick fix
→ Serious about succession — not just stabilization
→ Between 400 and 2,500 in weekend attendance
→ Carrying 10–30 staff who need a leader who can lead leaders
→ Sitting on a high-potential internal leader who could be your next XP (executive pastor)
→ Wanting executive horsepower without a full-time line item
→ Ready to commit to a 12-month build rather than a quick fix
→ Serious about succession — not just stabilization
Is This For You?
You are the perfect fit if…
WHAT THEY’RE SAYING
They didn't just give us a strategy. They got into the boat and rowed with us until the team could row on their own. They gave us speed.
Pastor S. M. // Senior Pastor // Long Island, NY
MEET THE TEAM
Operators experienced in every seat.
Every engagement is led by one of our senior advisors, matched to your context. Deep specialties, one shared methodology.
Sheldon J. Andrus III
Founder & CEO
Sheldon is the founder and CEO of Andrus Advisory and the author of Sunday by Design: How Growing Churches Master Sunday, which is the seminal work behind the SundayOS framework that informs every engagement. Prior to founding the firm, he served as Executive Pastor at multi-site churches with weekend attendance ranging from 2,000 to more than 15,000. He leads engagements focused on multi-site growth, executive-team development, and senior-pastor coaching.
+ Leadership
+ Coaching
+ Strategy
Janelle Montgomery, CPA
Partner
Janelle is a Certified Public Accountant, tax strategist, and business development practitioner. She advises high-net-worth clients, marketplace and non-profit leaders on financial strategy. Janelle helms the financial services division at Andrus Advisory, where her team’s work spans stewardship infrastructure, budgeting, and pastor-CFO advisory.
+ Tax Strategy
+ Accounting
+ Finance
Keith Turner, Jr.
Sr. Advisor
Keith leads the HR and staffing practice at Andrus Advisory, with work spanning executive search, team coaching, and employee development. He brings 10 years of experience at Apple in retail leadership and business development, where he led and coached teams within one of the most sophisticated talent organizations in the world. He also leads RightSeat, the firm's executive search division.
+ Human Resources
+ Staffing
Darius L. Glenn
Sr. Advisor
A prototype second-seat leader, Darius is an Executive Pastor and strategic advisor with experience leading historic and influential churches with attendance ranging from 500 to 5,000. He leads operations engagements at Andrus Advisory, focused on installing the back-office systems and rhythms — calendars, communications, scorecards, accountability cadence — that translate organizational vision into staff execution.
+ Ministry Ops
+ Org Design
+ Strategy
Things pastors ask.
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A seasoned executive who embeds in your team for a 12-month engagement to provide executive-level leadership, install systems, and prepare your next internal leader for the seat. You get the capacity without the full-time salary — and you end the year with both a healthier team and a successor ready to own the role.
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By outcomes, not hours. The scope is set by the deliverables of the 12-month pathway — the four on-site engagements, monthly coaching cadence, and the SundayOS installation milestones. You'll know what we own and when.
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In our consulting practice, we focus on bringing clarity, alignment, and frameworks for our clients to implement, and we coach them as they do the work. Our fractional leadership partnerships are deeply hands-on. We integrate. We attend staff meetings, supervise leaders, make decisions, and bear responsibility for outcomes. We're a strategic partner leading the succession process.
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The 12-month timeline is built to ensure the internal leader is fully prepared and your systems are stable. If transition happens sooner, we hand off the remaining elements of the plan to the successor and your leadership team — and stay available as ongoing counsel.
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A seasoned full-time Executive Pastor typically requires an annual compensation package of $115K or more. This model is designed to maximize that strategic investment — funding both a senior external operator and the active development of your future internal Executive Pastor inside one budget.
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Three core parties: the Senior Pastor, your Andrus Advisory fractional partner, and the identified Internal Successor. That three-way partnership is what makes the mentorship, knowledge transfer, and structural alignment actually stick.
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That's part of the work. In the discovery phase we help you identify the right person — and if no internal candidate emerges, the RightSeat team runs a parallel external search at no additional retainer cost.
15 minutes can clarify your next move.
If you’re looking for clarity on whether fractional leadership would benefit your church, we want to talk. Schedule a 15-minute clarity call to get your questions answered.
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