Pinnacle Carolina Hub

 Elevate your leadership journey with the Pinnacle Carolina Hub, an innovative series of monthly workshops designed exclusively for forward-thinking church professionals across North and South Carolina. Combining Pinnacle Leadership Associates’ proven expertise with personalized development opportunities, these immersive sessions create a powerful regional network where leaders can exchange ideas, refine their skills, and discover transformative strategies. Whether you’re navigating organizational change, building high-performance teams, or seeking to amplify your executive presence, the Pinnacle Carolina Hub offers a collaborative environment where theory meets practice and professional growth flourishes in your own backyard.

September 18, 2025: 9:30am–1:00pm

Discovering and Leveraging Your Natural Leadership Style in Ministry

Presenter: Mark E. Tidsworth, Pinnacle Founder and Team Leader
Location - Eastminster Presbyterian Church, 3200 Trenholm Rd, Columbia, SC 29204
Cost - $75 (includes PeopleMap Leadership Style Inventory)

“Know thyself” is a really helpful strategy for increasing one’s leadership competency. Knowing one’s natural leadership style, with its strengths and weaknesses, raises leadership effectiveness.

This learning experience is for clergy and church staff who value growth and development. This is an excellent way to provide a staff development experience for staff teams. Not only is this a high quality training event, but participants will interact with other staff teams from area churches, enriching the learning and forming community. Individual clergy and staff persons will be enriched as well, engaging with others in similar ministry contexts. Whatever your leadership role is in ministry, this Seminar will open the door to leadership growth.

During this Seminar we will:

  • Complete and score the PeopleMap Leadership Styles Inventory

  • Learn the Strengths and Achilles Heels of each Style

  • Learn how to maximize one’s strengths while minimizing Achilles Heels 

  • Hear examples of pastoral and church staff leaders who use their styles for leadership effectiveness

  • Receive guidance on how to connect one’s leadership style with one’s current ministry goals and aspirations

  • Receive a substantive workbook with strategies for raising leadership effectiveness

Rev. Mark E. Tidsworth is a Certified PeopleMap Trainer, with 25+ years of experience in training and coaching pastors and church staff persons toward leadership excellence. Mark loves doing PeopleMap training, connecting the dots between individual gifts and graces and the mission of the Church. You will find Mark enthusiastic about raising your leadership effectiveness through this learning experience.

October 16, 2025: 10:00am–12:30pm

Child and Youth Protection Policy for Churches and Faith Communities

Presenter: Lexanne Graves, Pinnacle Associate
Location - TBD, Columbia, SC
Cost: $50

Ensuring the safety and security of our children and youth is paramount to fostering a thriving and trustworthy faith community. This workshop directly addresses this by focusing on the development and implementation of effective Child/Youth Protection Policies. It begins by asking: 'Does our church/faith community have a Child/Youth Protection Policy with annual trainings for adult staff and volunteers?' This isn't just about compliance; it's about proactively mitigating risks, building trust with families, and demonstrating our unwavering commitment to the vulnerable members of our community. This training will guide leaders through the process of creating a context-specific policy and provide actionable steps and outlines for putting it into practice, ultimately strengthening our ability to protect and nurture our young people.  Without a clear and consistently enforced Child/Youth Protection Policy and regular training, your faith community risks failing to adequately protect vulnerable individuals, potentially leading to harm and eroding the trust of families and the wider community.

Anticipated Outcomes for Participants:

  • Educate participants about facts of child sexual abuse and understand the risks

  • Focus on ways to minimize the risks specific to one’s context

  • Provide multiple resources on creating one’s policy

  • Discuss trainings and screenings needed and how to handle reporting child sexual abuse

  • Craft an outline for one’s policy