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Twelve one-on-one meetings over a year

Leading Well Through Risk

Across twelve one-on-one meetings, I will accompany you as you examine how you perceive risk, make decisions under uncertainty, and influence the people and culture you lead.

We will follow a clear but flexible curriculum shaped around your context, your development goals, and the leadership challenges you are currently facing.

What is included?

A complete personal pathway

  • Ten individual development sessions
  • Two individual progress-review sessions
  • A personal risk-posture self-assessment
  • A personal risk-posture profile
  • Biblical readings and additional resources
  • Worksheets and practical tools
  • Decision-making and conversation-facilitation tools
  • A written personal development plan
  • A plan for strengthening team risk culture
  • Contact between sessions for brief questions, agreed reflections, and support with applying the learning

Format

Flexible 12-month program

  • Total of twelve 60-minute sessions, live online via Zoom
  • Available in English or German
  • Flexible intervals between sessions
  • Complete pathway finished within twelve months

$2,400 USD or €2,200

New pathways can begin from January 2027. Applications are welcome at any time, subject to availability.

The development journey

Ten core sessions

  1. Session 1

    Context, calling, and development goals

    Explore your leadership context, current challenges, and reasons for entering the pathway. Together, we will assess whether the pathway is a good fit and agree on personal development goals.

  2. Session 2

    A biblical theology of risk

    Reflect on risk responses found in Scripture and consider what faithful leadership requires when calling, danger, responsibility, and uncertainty meet.

  3. Session 3

    Personal risk posture

    Use a self-assessment to develop your personal risk-posture profile. Explore how personality, experience, culture, faith, and leadership responsibility influence how you perceive and respond to risk.

  4. Session 4

    Cognitive biases and spiritual discernment

    Examine how cognitive biases, emotions, group dynamics, and previous experiences can distort risk perception and spiritual discernment. Develop practices that support greater self-awareness and more grounded judgment.

  5. Session 5

    Inappropriate risk acceptance

    Explore recklessness, overconfidence, spiritualized risk-taking, and insufficient regard for how decisions affect others. Identify practices that strengthen wise prudence and accountability.

  6. Session 6

    Inappropriate risk avoidance

    Explore fear-driven caution, excessive safety-first thinking, delay, and other dynamics that can prevent faithful action. Identify personal triggers and opportunities to grow in obedient courage.

  7. Session 7

    Risk capacity and duty of care

    Distinguish willingness to accept risk from the capacity to carry it responsibly. Consider how calling, competence, health, relationships, resources, preparation, community, and duty of care shape appropriate risk engagement.

  8. Session 8

    Decision-making under uncertainty

    Apply practical tools to real leadership situations. Test assumptions, expand tactical options, involve appropriate voices, and make decisions aligned with both the mission and the moment.

  9. Session 9

    Facilitating risk conversations

    Develop your ability to lead conversations in which people hold different convictions, perceptions, and tolerances of risk. Practice surfacing assumptions, asking good questions, handling disagreement, and supporting shared discernment.

  10. Session 10

    Shaping a mature risk culture

    Examine how your leadership contributes to the ethos and practices of your team or organization. Review your development goals and create a personal development plan and a plan for strengthening your team’s risk culture.

Leading well through risk requires more than understanding new concepts. It requires time to apply them, reflect on the results, and adjust your leadership practice. Two additional progress-review sessions are included to review progress against the original development goals and to consolidate learning. The follow-up sessions normally take place during the three to six months following the core sessions. All twelve sessions are completed within twelve months of beginning the pathway.

Who is this pathway for?

Christian leaders navigating uncertainty

Leading Well Through Risk is designed for Christian team leaders and organizational leaders who:

  • Struggle to make biblically grounded decisions under uncertainty
  • Want to understand their personal defaults in perceiving and responding to risk
  • Recognize patterns that may lead to excessive caution or inappropriate risk-taking
  • Want to grow in competence and confidence when leading through uncertainty
  • Need to facilitate difficult conversations about risk
  • Want to understand how they influence the ethos of their team
  • Desire to cultivate a mature, Kingdom-aligned risk culture

You may bring one significant leadership challenge to explore throughout the pathway or work with several situations as they arise.

Beginning the pathway

Start with a 60-minute initial session

The first session allows us to explore your context, leadership challenges, and development goals. It also helps us determine whether Leading Well Through Risk is a good fit for both of us.

$200 USD or €180

If we decide to continue, this session becomes Session 1 of the pathway and the fee is credited toward your first installment. If either of us decides not to continue, there is no further obligation.

How to Risk Well credit

Returning-participant price

Have you registered and paid for the complete How to Risk Well workshop series within the previous 24 months?

$2,400 USD or €2,200, less the amount you actually paid for How to Risk Well

If you paid the current full workshop-series price, your pathway price is $2,051 USD or €1,880.

Please indicate the approximate date of your How to Risk Well registration when applying. The amount you actually paid is credited toward the first installment. The credit is available for 24 months from registration and payment and cannot be combined with another discount.

Apply for Leading Well Through Risk

Inquire about beginning the pathway

You are welcome to inquire at any time. New pathways can begin from January 2027, subject to availability.

You can email me directly at falk@biblical-risk-academy.com.

Important details

Credit for How to Risk Well

The credit applies even if you have not yet completed every group session. Relevant foundational learning will be reviewed briefly, and the individual curriculum will be adapted to provide greater depth and personal application.

The credit equals the amount actually paid for How to Risk Well and applies to the first installment. It is available for 24 months from registration and payment and cannot be combined with another discount.

Organizational sponsorship and confidentiality

Organizations may sponsor a leader’s participation in Leading Well Through Risk.

Coaching conversations, self-assessment results, and personal development work remain confidential between the participant and the Biblical Risk Academy. No personal information or assessment results will be shared with a sponsoring organization unless the participant explicitly agrees.

Where appropriate, the participant and sponsoring organization may agree on general development goals before the pathway begins. Any reporting or concluding conversation involving the organization will be discussed and agreed with the participant in advance.

Scope of the pathway

Leading Well Through Risk is not:

  • Therapy or psychological treatment
  • Pastoral counseling
  • Crisis or emergency response
  • A formal security assessment
  • Organizational risk consulting
  • A process for determining God’s will on someone else’s behalf

Prayer and shared discernment may be included where desired. Responsibility for leadership decisions remains with the participant and their organization.

Payment and invoicing

  • Payment is made by invoice. You may pay by PayPal in US dollars or euros, or by bank transfer in euros.
  • The invoice will state the payment currency, payment deadline, and complete payment instructions. For bank transfers, please use Falk Scissek as the account holder and include the invoice number as the payment reference.
  • Any fees charged to you by your own bank or payment provider are your responsibility. PayPal merchant fees are covered by the Biblical Risk Academy.
  • Any refund due under the cancellation policy will normally be returned through the original payment method and in the currency in which the invoice was paid.

Payment schedule

Initial session
$200 USD or €180, payable before the session
First pathway installment
$1,000 USD or €920, payable after deciding to continue
Second pathway installment
$1,200 USD or €1,100, payable before Session 6

The initial-session payment is fully credited toward the total pathway price of $2,400 USD or €2,200. The amount actually paid for an eligible How to Risk Well course is also fully credited toward the total pathway price.

Cancellation, rescheduling, and refunds

  • Individual sessions may be rescheduled at no additional cost with at least 24 hours’ notice. If you cancel with less than 24 hours’ notice, the session will normally count as delivered. Exceptions may be made in emergencies.
  • Sessions that have already taken place are non-refundable.
  • If you end the program, any amount paid in advance for sessions not yet delivered will be refunded. If I am unable to continue the program, you will receive a refund for any services not yet delivered.
  • All sessions must normally take place within twelve months of beginning the pathway.