Tony Stoltzfus

Tony has spent several decades coaching leaders to encounter God in their most difficult moments, based on a lifetime of engaging God in pain and loss. He developed the Encounter Coaching method (detailed in the book, The Invitation), where change is created by asking Jesus questions that lead to powerful encounters with God. He has started multiple coaching organizations, including an NGO has provided roughly 60,000 hours of coaching to leaders in emerging nations and is acknowledged as a thought leader and founding figure in the Christian coaching movement, where he has been active since 1999.

Tony is the author of 20 books on coaching, leadership and emotional health, as well as many multimedia resources and leadership training courses. For more on his work visit:

Leadership Metaformation (Meta-Formation) offers professional training in the encounter coaching process.

LikeaHumanBeing offers an innovative approach to studying scripture with the emotional brain.

TheCallingJourney is a free calling timeline generator based on his research on how leaders are called.

At HeavensPerspective you can sign up to have part of your life story rewritten from heaven's point of view.

Tony enjoys building Frank Lloyd Wright-style furniture (replacing what was lost when his home burned to the ground), reading, star-gazing, working outdoors and laughter. He lives in beautiful Redding, CA with his wife of 35 years, a dog who worships her, and a constantly breaking sprinkler system.