Helping Church Leaders
Find, Keep, and Grow Great Staff
How Much Time Are These Challenges Costing You?
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lack of clarity in staff's roles and responsibilities
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puzzling "less-fruit-than-hoped" cases
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finding the right successor for a high impact role
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missed deadlines or poorly executed events and projects
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frequent disagreement and contention within the team
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that one staff member you cannot seem to connect or ever win on your vision
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difficulty making decisions as a team or moving initiatives forward
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the hiring process
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fragmented communication and lack of full engagement within the team
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figuring out next growth steps for each member
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unifying the elder team into one vision
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not investing in leaders' growth
Products and Services
Find People
Product
Online SaaS* platform that aligns decision-makers, builds job benchmarks, gains in-depth understanding of each candidate, and chooses the best fit.
*SaaS - software as a service
Services
individual or group training on the usage of the platform, thought framework, and key hiring practices
hiring process review and optimization
job advertising review and optimization
Grow People
Product
Online SaaS platform that provides personalized leadership and employee development guides, conflict resolution tools, and insights about each staff work style and needs.
Services
individual or group training on best management practices and employee engagement
performance or growth policies review and optimization
one-on-one staff development sessions
Keep People
Product
Online SaaS platform that provides team analytics, communication tools, growth plans, trajectory adjustment, and goal setting.
Services
group training on how to interpret the team analytics and set goals in relation to institution trajectory
guidance on changes within a team and succession planning
Your Wins
A unique understanding of new staff and no guesswork of their future behavior. Being prepared for their successes and areas they will need your help.
Actionable tools at your fingertips on how to grow leaders and take everyone in your care to the next level.
A blueprint to elevate the elder or any team, along with insights into the root causes of long-standing challenges you have struggled to solve for a while.
What is your next step in fulfilling your calling to grow leaders and steward entrusted staff well?
You Might Be Thinking…
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Its ability to measure behavioral drives and understand the individual on a unique level that other platforms and systems do not and doing so only in 6 minutes.
A proven 70-year track record of improving hiring outcomes, developing strong leaders and employees, and driving overall productivity and engagement within organizations.
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To keep the same metrics in one place across all stages of staff development rather than using disjointed systems.
To free up your time so you can concentrate on what only you can do.
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Yes. A number of other churches have used this platform and found it to be invaluable.
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The measured behavioral drives and their definitions are more precise and transparent, making practical application less ambiguous.
The platform enables continuous application and results access across various scenarios and roles rather than providing a one-time, one-dimensional description.
The platform provides detailed guidance on how each individual can grow in leadership abilities, while DISC does not.
The measured drives have a far more apparent application on one’s spiritual life than DISC’s do.
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It is up to you. The purchase of the Saas comes with the initial training that is designed to equip you to use the SaaS on your own. Afterward, general support is provided at no charge. Anything beyond that is initiated at your discretion and is considered paid consulting.
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We believe the first exposure to the SaaS should be through the Kingdom-values lens I’ve carefully developed over a number of years, rather than the standard corporate perspective in which it is initially presented.
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It will depend on how many features or modules are purchased. We strive to accommodate each institution's financial situation while working within the constraints set by the publisher.
Your Next Step Can Start Here
Option 1
Reach out with questions.
Option 2
Schedule a demo.
What Is Thrive Group All About?
Thrive Group helps faith-based organizations to hire and steward their people effectively, with the ultimate goal of growing God’s Kingdom of joy, peace, and righteousness.
Founder - Irina N. Martin
Irina Martin is a former high school teacher and a K-12 academy administrator. She is deeply passionate about intentionally developing each laborer in God's Kingdom and equipping them to fulfill their God-given assignments. During Irina’s eleven years in senior management, her passion and corresponding skills were tested and refined as the academy grew from 275 students to over 5,000. Following a season of health changes, Irina began an independent practice in 2023, guiding ministries and small businesses in navigating the full employee life cycle—ensuring that every person is hired and developed with excellence.
Irina holds a Master’s Degree in Educational Administration and a Talent Optimization certification.
Irina was born in Ukraine and moved to the United States with her family as a teenager. She is married, has four children, and currently resides in the greater Seattle area.
During a period of explosive growth at the Academy, I was tasked with hiring 30 staff members in a single year. The challenge was not only finding enough candidates, but also defining roles clearly, identifying the right people, and equipping our department leaders with the systems and skills to sustain our growth.
At the same time, disagreements within our senior leadership team made it difficult to decide on how and why things needed to be done. We were working toward the same goals, but we didn't always understand one another's perspectives, motivations, or approaches.
Implementing this assessment platform was a turning point for me in the way I practiced both hiring and leadership.
From our very first look at the platform, I was struck by how accurately it revealed the behavioral drives of our team. It gave us a new language for understanding one another, helped explain why we approached challenges differently, and showed us how to work with each other more effectively.
In hiring, it took guesswork out of defining roles and finding the right candidates beyond the skill set.
Most importantly, the insights from this platform enabled me to be the leader I wanted to be - the one who loves people well and guides them intentionally into their fullest professional potential.
Today, I want to bring proven systems and my experience to leaders who want to do the same.
Irina’s Story
