Founder, Soul Care | Author | Speaker | Consultant

Your Best Leaders Are Running on Empty. There Is a Better Way.

For over 30 years, Mindy Caliguire has helped organizations build cultures where leaders flourish instead of flame out. As the architect behind ECFA's Excellence in Leader Care standard, she brings proven frameworks for sustainable soul health to leadership teams, boards, and staff.

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Why Leader Care Matters

The Leadership Crisis Is Real, and It Is Accelerating

Across sectors, experienced leaders are leaving. Burnout is no longer an individual problem. It is an organizational one. In October 2025, ECFA recognized this crisis by adopting a new standard requiring boards to proactively care for their senior leaders.

Leaders Are Exhausted

The demands on organizational leaders have compounded year over year. Without intentional soul care practices, even the most resilient leaders reach a breaking point. The cost of inaction is measured in lost leaders, fractured teams, and diminished mission impact.

Organizations Are Losing Their Best

When burnout forces a senior leader out, the ripple effects run deep. Institutional knowledge disappears. Teams destabilize. Transitions are costly and disruptive. Proactive leader care is not a perk. It is organizational stewardship.

A New Standard Demands Action

ECFA's 8th standard, 'Excellence in Leader Care,' takes effect January 1, 2027. Boards are now required to develop holistic care plans for senior leaders. This is not optional anymore. It is a compliance requirement and a calling.

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Leader Care Consulting

Soul Care partners with organizations to build sustainable leader health practices, from assessment through implementation and ongoing support. Whether you are preparing for ECFA compliance or simply ready to invest in the people carrying your mission forward.

Supporting organizations with ECFA's Excellence in Leader Care standard compliance

Leader Care Strategy & Assessment

We assess your current leader care practices, identify gaps, and design a strategy tailored to your organization's mission, leadership structure, and team realities.

ECFA Standard Compliance

Practical guidance to bring your board and leadership into alignment with ECFA's Excellence in Leader Care standard before the January 2027 effective date.

Executive Coaching & Spiritual Direction

One-on-one work for senior leaders carrying significant weight. Confidential, formational, and grounded in three decades of walking with leaders through transitions, burnout, and discernment.

Staff Wellbeing Programs

Programs designed for whole teams — staff retreats, rhythms of rest, soul care groups, and the kind of shared language that turns leader care into a living culture, not a memo.

Customized Retreats & Workshops

Half-day, full-day, or multi-day formats for boards, executive teams, and staff. Designed around your context, your people, and the questions you are actually carrying.

Ongoing Partnership

Long-term advisory work for organizations who want a steady hand alongside them. Quarterly check-ins, ongoing coaching, and a partner thinking about your leaders' health between the big moments.

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Mindy brings three decades of experience to every stage, boardroom, and retreat setting. Her talks are grounded in real organizational insight, not abstract theory. She speaks to leaders who are carrying real weight and offers both language and practical frameworks for sustainable leadership.

From Burnout to Breakthrough: Building Sustainable Leadership Cultures

What it actually takes to move from a culture of exhaustion to a culture where leaders flourish — for boards, executive teams, and staff carrying real weight.

The Soul of a Leader: Why Inner Health Drives Organizational Health

The connection between a leader's inner life and the health of the organization they lead. Practical, grounded, and clarifying for senior leaders feeling the pull of mission and the cost of carrying it.

Leader Care as Strategy: What ECFA's New Standard Means for Your Organization

An accessible walkthrough of ECFA's Excellence in Leader Care standard — what it requires, why it matters, and how your board can lead the work rather than be caught off-guard by it.

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Soul Care Conversations

Honest conversations about caring for the soul in the midst of leadership, work, relationships, and everyday life. Depth, reflection, and spiritual grounding for those navigating burnout, transition, or discernment.

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New Book

Ignite Your Soul

When Exhaustion, Isolation, and Burnout Light a Path to Flourishing • NavPress, 2024

What if the very experiences that have left you depleted could become the catalyst for something deeper? In Ignite Your Soul, Mindy draws on decades of walking with burned-out leaders and offers a honest, practical path from survival to flourishing. This is not a book about doing more. It is a book about becoming whole.

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What Leaders Are Saying

Mindy Caliguire not only helps us understand our soul but also invites us into a life saturated with attentiveness and responsiveness to the realities of God. If adversity, heartbreak, or anxiety have left you feeling tinder dry, this book is like a quenching salve. Step into Kingdom living where you can truly say, “It is well with my soul.”

— JOHN CARROLL, executive director of Dallas Willard Ministries

Mindy practices what she teaches and teaches well what she practices. Ignite Your Soul is a much needed, and welcome, respite for those of us who wish to thrive on our journey of following Jesus.

— GREG NETTLE , president of Stadia Church Planting

Ignite Your Soul resonates deeply with my own soul, reminding me that its healing and care is crucial to my leadership. I love the invitation to reflection, connection, and interaction. It is the way of life that God invites us into that leads to “life, more and better life than [we] ever dreamed of” (John 10:10, msg).

— MARGARET FITZWATER , executive director TDC – The Navigators US Leadership Team

Your Best Leaders Are Running on Empty. There Is a Better Way.