Vivian Coleman is a follower of Jesus, and an ordained Presbyterian minister; between 2009 and 2015 she was seconded to a pastoral role at a Baptist church in Auckland. In 2016 she completed a Master of Business where her thesis topic was Performance Management of Clergy in NZ Presbyterian and Baptist churches. She is now self-employed as a discipleship and ministry coach, serving in an all-encompassing term that covers leading services and supervising pastors, resourcing discipleship training, and writing about management in the church as well as managing the family Medical Centre’s website. She is married to Ric, an Auckland GP, and they have four children and seven grandchildren.
Vivian Coleman, BSc, B Theol, MTS. M Bus, is an experienced church minister, and leadership advisor, who works independently with pastoral leaders and congregations from her home in Auckland, New Zealand. Vivian is a practical theologian who has researched Eldership, Infant Initiation, and Change in the Church at postgraduate level. Vivian coaches pastoral leaders through conversation, journaling assignments, feedback, and evaluation. Her 2015 M.Bus research thesis Realistic and hopeful: Baptist and Presbyterian experience of clergy review in New Zealand is providing useful guidance to church leaders about effective review conversations ands she is facilitator for the Presbyterian Ministry Development Plan process. Coaching conversations – usually an hour once a month – can take place in person at her Half Moon Bay home, or over the phone/Zoom. Vivian also coaches church groups in discipleship, spirituality and leadership, and is open to creative requests for consultations that do not fit into a set category.
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