Alan Wildes

“Drawing on my background as a teacher and coach—in colleges, high schools and now the local church—I build successful teams that can work toward a common goal and feel good about the results. That means taking knowledge out of my head and transferring it to others who then go out into the congregation and ‘execute.' That’s teaching and coaching at its finest, empowering people to exercise talents they never knew they had. And that is exciting to witness!”

Alan Wildes views his role as a stewardship consultant to be one that empowers. He brings the knowledge, experience, listening and motivational skills needed to help others realize their goals. In the last eight years alone, he has led more than 60 successful church capital campaigns, applying his unique skills and insights as a layperson and coach to the training of God’s real life stewards.

Excited by his work in growing churches, Alan’s own faith and commitment is bolstered by the Generis approach to fundraising as a spiritual quest. Personal relationships are forged quickly, he says, due to the amount of time and energy he spends with each congregation he serves. In fact, Alan’s success and devotion have been heartily reciprocated by his clients, who have engaged him to lead subsequent fundraising campaigns. His clients praise his methods of motivating others to see stewardship as an inspiring “whole life” challenge and not a short-term monetary obligation.

A social studies teacher and baseball coach for eight years prior to becoming a full-time fundraising consultant, Alan earned his Bachelor of Science in Education from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and his Master of Science in Education from Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro.