Sunni brings a lifetime of experience listening, asking questions, and engaging in possibilities. She was nurtured by strong mentors and coaches who helped her develop as a leader and is honored to walk with others who are on their own faithful journey.
Coaching aligns with her vocational call of empowering others so they can realize their potential and move from stuck to claiming their next faithful action step. Her ELCA coach training includes: Segment 1 Basic Training, Team Coaching Segment 1 and 2, and Mission Development and congregational Vitality Training. Sunni serves as a lead coach with the Nebraska Synod’s Vitality Initiative for Congregations. She is a rostered Deacon in the ELCA.
As camp director, executive director and director for discipleship she has walked with preschoolers, elementary and high school students, college leaders and adults of all ages including wise retired elders. Her career has taken her from Iowa to Alaska, Minnesota and Nebraska. Sunni shares her home in Lincoln with her four-legged buddy Zadie Grace. Recently retired Sunni serves professionally as coach, trainer, consultant and a retreat and workshop leader. She is an avid reader, photographer, and Thai food lover. Her favorite question is “why?” answered with “why not?”
Mission: Cultivating Your Calling
Vision: Nobody Journeys Alone
Coaches connect dreams to concrete actions that create change for individuals and congregations.
The ELCA's offices are located on the ancestral homelands of the Peoria, Bodwéwadmi (Potawatomi), Myaamia (Miami), Očhéthi Šakówiŋ (Sioux), Hoocąk (Ho-Chunk), and Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo) tribal nations. We give thanks for their presence here since time immemorial.