As an executive coach and organizational consultant, Bill partners with clients seeking to make intentional and purposeful changes in their lives so they can achieve desired outcomes and results. He believes that his clients are creative, resourceful, and capable of clarifying goals, creating action plans, and making steady progress towards accomplishing what's really important to them. He is passionate about providing clients with the means, knowledge, and opportunity to discover practical avenues to learn, grow and change. His primary goal is to ensure that clients set themselves up for success and are able to repeat that success time and time again.

Clients benefit from Bill’s affable and collaborative style combined with his candid communication based on real-life experience and knowledge. Bill has 40 years of experience in leading staff and volunteers in church ministry, including over 32 years as the Founding Pastor of Riverside Community Church, one of Pittsburgh’s multi-site and multi-generational churches.

Bill works primarily with executives and teams in businesses, non-profits, churches, and ministry networks. He is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation. He has completed Asbury Seminary’s Beeson Institute for Advanced Church Leadership, and earned his doctorate (D.Min) in professional leadership coaching from Evangel University.

Bill and his wife, Teresa, are blessed with two amazing daughters and their spouses, and four adorable grandchildren.

I began coaching with Bill Ellis as I entered a new role as a Network Superintendent (Regional Supervisor).  The coaching conversations brought clarity of purpose, moved me through ideas to execution and provided opportunity for reflection that lead to deep change.  Whether our conversations focused on the professional side or the personal side, I concluded every session with the confidence that the time was one of the best hours spent each month.  Bill is skilled and extremely personable, a wonderful mix for a coaching relationship.  I highly recommend any leader who desires to change, grow and become more effective, to consider a coaching relationship will Bill Ellis. - Nick Fatato, Superintendent of the Southern New England Ministry Network

After a year of coaching with Bill, I am excited to see the fruits of his accompaniment. He consistently challenges to turn thinking into action. This has helped me to define precisely the values that should drive my ministry and to find clarity in the decisions I need to make. Bill knows how to provide the right tools at the right time to make deep changes. I know that every session with Bill will help me move forward and stay focused on the mission God has given me. One of Bill's strengths is his ability to take the whole person into account, both in personal life and in ministry, with all the necessary respect. Bill is able to create that atmosphere of trust that is necessary for real change. I highly recommend him in his coaching ministry. - Yann Antoine, Superintendent of the Paris, France District of the Assemblies of God

Bill is an exceedingly skilled leadership coach and a fun guy to hang with. His empathy and art of listening is unsurpassed. His questions make you step back and think. He is the one that, as Harvard’s Ron Heifetz might say, gets you off the dance floor and onto the balcony. I highly recommend him. - Dr. Sam Farina, PCC