Grow faithfully and purposefully, in your business and across your whole life
1st Principle Leadership (1PL) combines Christian leadership coaching, business consulting, life coaching, and counseling to help you be fruitful and multiply all God has entrusted you with for His glory- all through the power of the Gospel.
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Previous leaders have experienced high-impact results
300+
Marriages At Best Level Ever
10-20%
Business Growth YOY
10%
REDUCTION IN HOURS WORKED
Living and working in congruence with Christ
We know that running a business requires you to be at the top of your game, but managing the day to day problems while thinking strategically and financially (among other things) leaves little energy to dedicate elsewhere.
We also know this: Christ commands us to order all of our lives under him as Redeemer and Lord.
While this may seem like yet another set of tasks on an already never-ending list, reorienting our lives toward Christ and reinterpreting our effectiveness and health - in all ways, shapes, and forms - in alignment to His calling of us as leaders is what will enable us to better generate solutions to our problems, both personal and professional.
Here's how we help Christian leaders, their families, and teams
Start with the 1PL Foundation
The process starts with us partnering together to learn all about you. Through a variety of assessments and by listening to your story and testimony, we tailor a plan for your unique goals and being.
Move to blended sessions
After setting a foundation, we continue with meetings that blend business coaching, life coaching, counseling, and consulting to best meet your needs. Explore individual, couple, family, and business sessions.
Strong leaders create strong teams, and strong teams execute a company's vision. If you see a fit, let our LIROS Group brand design custom trainings and team coaching that your team will love and immediately implement the learnings and advance excellence across the firm.
The story of 1PL
1st Principle Leadership founder Ryan Bailey built a successful organizational effectiveness company (LIROS Group) and a flourishing Christian counseling practice (1st Principle Group), but at a cost. Unfortunately, not until both businesses were well established did Ryan see how much good he had sacrificed along the way. He had given up his health, time with his family, true fellowship, and other essentials.
1st Principle Leadership (1PL) was built to help other Christian heads of companies prevent and correct the mistakes Ryan made. Rooted in the teaching in Colossians that, as followers of Jesus Christ, “He is to be our First Principle,” we seek to live in congruence with Christ and empower others to live in accordance with this truth, not only propelling themselves, their families, and their businesses forward but also advancing the Kingdom. God gets the glory, and we thrive.
I highly recommend Ryan as a man of character and integrity. In addition to his solid academic and professional credentials, his counsel is grounded in scripture and godly love, pointing to the ultimate source of help and peace in this world. Ryan is a key catalyst to our business as we transform into a fast-growing, tech-enabled provider of services and technologies in the tax, accounting, and business services industries. During the time he’s worked with us, we’ve increased sales and income nearly 200% in 2 years. Thank you Ryan!
Dale Stapler - Founder of AlphaResults and Certified Coach
What is the ultimate goal of working with 1PL?
Life is about God; it is not about us. The first commandment is still in effect: We are to love God with all we have and are. One way we show that love is by being excellent stewards of what He has entrusted to us.
He entrusted us with businesses and resources, but most of all, He entrusted us with relationships - a relationship to Him, our spouses, our children, extended family, friends, and those we worship with.
He called us to be fruitful and multiply what He has given us to manage. Every area of life needs to glorify Him, and 1PL aims to help leaders do just that. This goal won’t be fully realized until we see Christ face-to-face but the more we become convinced that God loves us with all He has, is, and does, the more every area of life will become more Christ-like.
Christian Leadership Testimonials
"His services before and during our transition have saved the new investors and the business tens of thousands
of dollars! Finally, in 2012, when it came down to sell our company, we were able to sell it for 10% above asking price."
Dirk Tanis
CEO of Itani, LLC
"My husband and I have worked in ministry together for 18 years and have never seen such a transformational counseling center. Around our office we like to say that Ryan is our right arm. Not a week goes by where someone does not talk about the positive impact he has had on their family, marriage, and children.
Ryan's business card is always in my pocket and I am constantly referring individuals and churches."
Troy & Penny Maxwell
Freedom House Church
“Ryan’s greatest attribute as a counselor or coach, the thing he does best, is to get to the heart of the matter. Real, lasting change in people must begin at the heart level, and Ryan has a remarkable ability to do just that."
Al Baker
Reverend, President of Presbyterian Evangelistic Fellowship (PEF)