About Us
Listening – Learning – Aligning
For over twenty years, Craig Morton and The Missionplace have partnered to help organizations accomplish their mission. Through listening and learning, conflicts lead to creative outcomes. Hopes become strategies for development. Unclear goals open up occasions for discovery and renewal.
Meet Your Consultant
About Craig Morton
Founder, Lead Consultant, Network Leader
Craig likes to look and listen to the world. Endlessly curious and open to weighing varied perspectives, Craig’s background in philosophy helps him to understand the different viewpoints and values of others.
Over the past thirty years, Craig has been an ordained minister, serving in parish ministry, as well as consulting churches and church organizations. Seeing how connections function and form resilient bonds and healthy relationships was the focus of his doctoral studies in the sociology of organizations.
Having completed his doctorate in Organizational Leadership, he chose to focus on how organizations can share a common focus, build cohesion, be resilient, and adapt to endless change.
Be prepared for sports and athletic metaphors if they apply. Craig is also an accomplished track and field coach, chosen as Idaho Track Coach of the Year (Hurdles) in 2023.
Craig is a co-pastor of a church in Meridian, Idaho.
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at College of Western Idaho
Assistant Coach for Track and Field for high school and elite athletes
Founder, Lead Consultant, Network Leader, Certified Process Consultant
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Philosophy with emphasis in Behavioral Science, Literature and History, at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Master of Divinity with an emphasis in Ethics and Adult Education, from Palmer Seminary, Philadelphia
Doctorate of Education In Business-Organizational Leadership, emphasis in organizational sociology, from Argosy University, Atlanta
Mission Statement
The Missionplace empowers leaders and organizations by deeply listening to their unique stories and needs. Through collaborative learning and appreciative inquiry, we uncover hidden strengths and growth opportunities. We align these insights with the organization's mission, co-creating strategies that lead to impactful and sustainable success.
Deep Listening. Collaborative Learning. Strategic Alignment.
What Sets The Missionplace Apart?
Listening
"Through deep, empathetic listening as collaborative partners..."
Clients become partners in discovery
Creating space for trust and understanding to develop
Making certain the client comes first, heard and valued, and becomes a co-creator in the solutions.
Learning
"Utilizing appreciative inquiry, we uncover untapped skills and identify areas for capacity development."
Valuing the client as a source of insight and wisdom and not just a customer to sold a service.
Acknowledging and identifying the adaptive challenges that go beyond quick fixes and “off-the-rack” solutions.
Utilizing methods of deep listening, exploration, and active learning to meet and resolve challenges.
Aligning
"We align this collective learning with our clients' missions, crafting strategies that empower and drive meaningful progress."
Identifying resources and capacities necessary to initiating and completing goals.
Clarifying tactics needed to arrive at objectives.
Establishing the confidence needed to be creative when obstacles arrive and new paths to the goals become necessary.
