Is your Faith and your Work connected?
Or do you live a divided life?
Mike Ferrell is a Faith Driven Business Coach, award winning author and speaker that helps entrepreneurs and leaders connect work and faith for both personal and business fulfillment using the Monk Principles©.
What Is Impacted When You Have A Disconnected, Divided Life?
“A divided life, where faith and work are not interconnected, can have significant negative consequences for entrepreneurs, their businesses, their families and their communities. By integrating faith into their business practices, entrepreneurs can create a more cohesive, ethical, and fulfilling life and work environment, leading to long-term success and a positive legacy. A 1500 year old document called the Rule of Benedict gives us a blueprint and principles for connecting faith and work and creating a community that leads to engagement and connection. This is turn leads to higher productivity, positive work environment, profitability, safety, customer satisfaction and business success. More thriving, less grumbling!”
I serve entrepreneurs, leaders, non-profits, church’s, teams, organizations and people who:
Have a desire to connect their faith and their work
Are mission driven, striving for a higher purpose
Commited to virtuousness
Understand the importance of strategic thinking
Want to serve
Aim to achieve excellence
Strive to deliver profound hospitality over customer service
Are open to re-thinking how they find fullfillment in their work and how they create success
I help them create connected community by embracing a monastic mindset and the Monk Principles.
“Entrepreneurs need practical insights from individuals who have learned “real” lessons over time. Mike provides insight and strategy to speak to those individuals. In these times we need practical approaches that are based on proven effectiveness and that is what Mike provides.”
Creating Positive Deviance
The Heliotropic Effect is that all living organisms including human beings are attracted to positivity. When we utilize this effect we create positive deviance, which refers to the concept where individuals or groups within a business or organization who, despite facing the same challenges and constraints as others, use uncommon but successful behaviors and strategies that enable them to achieve significantly better outcomes.
The benefits of positive deviance for a business are enormous.
“Mike has demonstrated through his many years in business and research that a leader’s sustainable success is a result of the integration of his/her desire and ability to integrate best business practices, understanding of human behavior, and the pursuit of virtue. One does not have to be around Mike for any length of time to observe that this is a way of life for him”
Meet Mike
Mike Ferrell (The Monk Guy) is a Faith Driven Business Coach, an award winning author, and speaker. Known for his insightful books and teachings, Mike blends business strategy, positive psychology, spirituality and Benedictine principles in his work.
Mike has walked in your shoes. He has been involved in fourteen start-ups and has worked with hundreds of small and medium businesses for over 37 years. Mike has also faced the ups and downs of a divided life chasing profits and business success to the detriment of his faith, family and community. Several years ago he discovered the principles of The Rule of Benedict and since then has incorporated them into his work and his faith. These principles help entrepreneurs achieve success and keep them grounded on what’s important, faith, family and work.
Mike has training in the Benedictine principles and is a Benedictine Oblate. In addition he has studied philosophy and theology as a seminarian. Mike has also been guided in the spiritual exercises of St. Ignacious and has studied the spiritual direction principles of Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, Timothy Gallager and others. He is also a certified business coach and trained in Positive Psychology and Virtuous Leadership.
Get To Know Mike
Mike recently appeared on Steve Azar’s In A Mississippi Minute. This modern-day Renaissance man is a hit songwriter, recording artist, music producer, golfer, philanthropist and now – radio host. His hits include I Don’t Have To Be Me til Monday, Waitin On Joe and One Mississippi, the state song of Mississippi. Steve is the culture and music ambassador for the State of Mississippi.
Mike and Steve spent two shows talking about everything from golf to food to Steve’s new bloody Mary mix, I Don’t Have To Be Me til Monday Bloody Mary mix to Mike’s Monk Principles and the journey he has been on. Take a listen, I know you’ll enjoy!
“I have had the opportunity to work with Mike on several occasions and his knowledge and expertise on leadership, entrepreneurship, and best organizational methods are some of the best I have seen. He has a tremendous amount of experience and practical wisdom that is extremely valuable to any organization. In addition, his unique content and approach to training our team and in the delivery of unique organizational models is a huge benefit to our team and organization that will yield a great deal of success for years to come.”
Who I Have Served
Mike’s Speaking and Books
Mike Ferrell is a popular speaker and award winning author that frequently speaks to organizations and industry events and groups. If you’re looking for a positive, faith based message in the areas of entrepreneurship, leadership, sales, innovation or hospitality Mike can help.
Mike’s books are: Ultimate Breakthrough Planning:The Business Funnel Approach, The Sweet Spot: Where Business Strategy, Positive Psychology and Faith Principles Converge and Sell Like a Monk: Timeless “Rules” For Modern Selling. All published by Calumet’s Wisdom Editions and available on Amazon. His newest book, More Thriving, Less Grumbling: Monastic Guideposts for Achieving Business and Personal Fulfillment will be released in 2025.
“Mike worked with the Minnesota National Guard to build a strategic plan for our Beyond the Yellow Ribbon program and my copy of Ultimate Breakthrough Planning has been highlighted, dog-eared, starred, underlined, and notes dress up many of the margins. His book assisted me in developing dozens of marketing, PR and recruiting strategies for both government and private projects since I got my hands on a copy. It has a prominent and permanent place in every office I’ve lead. I’m so looking forward to his next book! ”
