Meet Bill

Chief team and bridge builder

Bill is chief team and bridge builder at ncd.life, helping us become better together and breaking down barriers that hold people back from collaborative conversations that can change the world.

Even if this were written in the third person, it would likely be written by me, so I may as well follow Adam’s lead and go straight to showing how my story has been shaped, most profoundly by the Holy Trinity, using the NCD principles, tools, resources and processes, some of which I’ve had the chance to speak into.

The first NCD book I read was The 3 Colors of Love and I was immediately hooked on the Trinitarian Compass as the framework that worked for me. The idea of balance and growing in the areas that were most shaded (less lit?) just made total sense – so I was startled when church leaders would say to me they only wanted the eight Quality Characteristics and the NCD Church Survey. They saw the Trinitarian Compass as an optional add-on, I guess because they had entered NCD through the Survey “door”.

I’ve always been a joiner and curious, so it has been easy for me to step into every new resource or process as they came along. I became an NCD Coach in the Anglican Diocese of Toronto nearly 20 years ago and then took over responsibility for the Canadian National Partnership a couple years later. Ian Campbell, a previous National Partner in Australia, recruited and mentored me over the next few years. I took over NCD in the UK in 2024 upon the retirement of my colleague Lynn Chetcutti. My small consulting practice is called Fordelm.

I remember meeting Christian the first time he came to North America on his tour for The 3 Colors of Your Spirituality. This is likely one of the first times I remember thinking, I’m going to have to process this for a while to figure out what’s happened, what I’ve experienced, what I’m learning. More encounters with Christian, Adam and NCD more broadly have taught me I can’t figure it all out, I’m not meant to. I can only bring my gifts, my loaves and fishes, and offer them for growth of the Kingdom.

I have come to church health and growth from a very corporate background, so I approach NCD and churches with an organizational mindset. I studied accounting and organizational behaviour in university and spent 2½ decades working for a very large Canadian bank. It has taken a while for me to see how mutually mentoring one another, or mutually discipling one another around the eight areas, is the key to growth – mine, ours, one another’s. Growing in relationship with the Eternal Trinity, in our ongoing encounter with it, is what I’m about, and I see this as my ministry and mission.

I am passionate about the Energy Paradigm (and Church 3.0). I am convinced that the global Church can’t delay going toward this framework, like it has in taking on and living into the significance of the Trinitarian Compass. The Church is in too much trouble, and so is the world. This isn’t just about church growth, it’s about souls knowing the Trinity so they can live life to the absolute fullest. I came to following Jesus from a very worldly view that stuff, money and power were the end goals; interestingly, as I keep working in the direction of Christlikeness, I become more and more the me God created me to be. And it’s also interesting that I have most of the stuff, money and power I would have desired, but now they don’t matter.

I live and work from my home in Port Hope, Ontario on the north shore of Lake Ontario one hour east of Toronto. My wife Marnie and I live with our two cats Monty and Lizzie, sing in a couple of choirs, and are active in our local church and the heritage architecture and arts communities.