Michael Brodeur
CEO and Founder of Pastor’s Coach
Michael is the co-founder and CEO of Pastor’s Coach and of Destiny Finder.
Michael was born in San Francisco, raised by counterculture parents, and became a hippie and spiritual seeker as a teenager. He was radically converted to Christ in the 70s while hitch-hiking and living among the Blackfeet Indians in Montana and soon began preaching the gospel on the streets in San Francisco. He was one of the founders of SOS Ministries, an evangelistic ministry that still sponsors outreaches in the Bay Area. In the early days of his ministry he was part of a Christian house ministry in San Francisco, ministering to street people and drug addicts. In the 80s he joined in with the Vineyard movement and planted a Vineyard church in San Francisco which became the largest evangelical church in San Francisco in a generation, and eventually was overseeing over 20 Vineyard churches throughout Northern California.
Michael Brodeur is the Founder and CEO of Pastor’s Coach and Co-Founder (with Glen Reed) of Destiny Finder.
Michael was born in San Francisco, raised by counterculture parents, and became a hippie and spiritual seeker as a teenager. He was radically converted to Christ in the 70s while hitch-hiking and living among the Blackfeet Indians in Montana and soon began preaching the gospel on the streets in San Francisco. He was one of the founders of SOS Ministries, an evangelistic ministry that still sponsors outreaches in the Bay Area. In the early days of his ministry, he was part of a Christian house ministry in San Francisco, ministering to street people and drug addicts.
In the 80s he joined in with the Vineyard movement and planted a Vineyard church in San Francisco which became the largest evangelical church in San Francisco in a generation, and eventually was overseeing over 20 Vineyard churches throughout Northern California.
Early in his pastoral ministry Michael developed a passion to see believers equipped and released into the specific ministry for which God has designed them. This passion led him to develop materials and a process for leadership development that he used to help hundreds of people to move forward into their destiny and calling. That material, refined by over thirty years of ministry, eventually became the Destiny Finder system. Destiny Finder launched the first destinyfinder.com website in 2010, and over a hundred thousand people around the world have used its tools to discover and develop their calling in the Lord.
Michael was awarded a D. Div. from Grace Bible College in Gurgaon, India. He served as Director of the Culture Project for Jesus Culture from 2009-2013. He taught and led the Church Leadership and Church Planting tracks at the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry (BSSM) for over five years in Redding, California. He also worked with Global Legacy, Bethel Church’s association of churches, overseeing churches and creating discipleship programs for the next generation.
Michael increasingly began working with leaders around the globe and saw more and more need for solid practical biblical and Spirit-led training for churches and especially for pastors and leaders. This led to the development of Pastor’s Coach, which launched its website PastorsCoach.com in 2015.
Michael currently coaches pastors and leaders around the USA and internationally, bringing his passion for mobilizing the church for kingdom ministry to many. He also works with Catch the Fire World, training local Catch the Fire churches around the world. And he is on staff at Jesus Culture Church in Sacramento, developing leadership and discipleship programs.
Michael is one of the foremost strategic thinkers (and doers) of church ministry in the body of Christ today, helping pastors, leaders, churches and movements to move forward into all that God has for them. Michael lives with his wife Diane in Shingle Springs, California. He plays guitar, loves the Beatles, and enjoys jigsaw puzzles in the few spare moments he has to relax.