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ESSENTIALS
The Essentials course by Sidecar Leader is designed to equip leaders with the core principles and practices necessary for driving organizational success.
LESSONS
The 7 Essentials
48 Videos - 7+ hours
CULTURE
Leadership
08 Lessons
37:02
EXECUTION & IMPLEMENTATION
Leadership
06 Lessons
43:13
STRATEGIC THINKING
Leadership
08 Lessons
72:06
EMPOWERMENT
Leadership
07 Lessons
56:08
COMMUNICATION
Leadership
07 Lessons
84:31
UNITY
Leadership
06 Lessons
48:57
CHARACTER
Leadership
06 Lessons
91:46
Jason Laird is a Pastor, Church Planter, Public Speaker, Leader, and Coach with a dedication to building leaders that are building the local church.
With over 21 years of ministry and leadership experience at some of the premier churches in the U.S., Jason has been privileged to build the local and global church alongside some of the highest capacity leaders and teams out there.
Most recently, he founded Sidecar Leader, a coaching practice dedicated to equipping leaders to go further faster with an emphasis on people, culture, systems, and strategy.
In addition to over 21 years of ministry experience, Jason has served as a leadership coach and mentor for 15 plus years, 6 of which were served as a church planting coach through ARC, a global church planting organization.
Jason has experienced pastoring in many different contexts. From 2017 to 2021, Jason served as the founder and lead pastor of Sozo Church in San Francisco, CA. Prior to this, Jason served as an Executive Pastor at Gateway Church in Dallas, Texas under the leadership of Ps. Robert Morris. While serving at Gateway Church, Jason provided vision and leadership for the student ministry staff at 6 campuses with a weekly attendance of over 2,000 students. His team built a national student conference of more than 4,000 students from around the nation in only 3 years.
Prior to joining the team at Gateway Church, Jason served for more than a decade in youth and young adult ministry as the Executive Student Pastor over 12 locations at Healing Place Church in Baton Rouge, LA under the Senior Leadership of Pastors Dino and Delynn Rizzo.
Jason studied theology and ministry leadership at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Healing Place School of Ministry, Jimmy Evans School for Pastors, and Patterson StratOps.
Jason is a gifted communicator and has traveled throughout the world preaching the Gospel and equipping leaders at conferences and churches.
Jason is married to his high school sweetheart, Jennifer, and together they have three children, Liam, Nixon, and Novy.
Co-founder Nathan Boley is an organizational leader who brings experience from the leading churches, tech companies, and philanthropic organizations in the country. Nathan brings ministry experience from a variety of different contexts. He learned ministry at Church of the Highlands in Birmingham, AL and served there for 3 years. After that, Nathan helped pioneer Sozo Church in San Francisco, CA as the Executive Director of Discipleship and Business & Operations. Nathan has also spent the last five years building teams and working on organizational development at Facebook and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a 45 billion dollar philanthropic organization building some of the most innovative technological tools. This experience has given Nathan the ability to learn from some of the most well-resourced and leading organizations. Nathan has an unparalleled ability to analyze organizational structure, develop scalable processes, and bring systematic solutions to recurring problems.
Nathan’s passionate coaching is driven by the desire to deploy the strategy and processes of world-class organizations into the local church to create thriving ministries. Nathan is passionate about developing leaders, maximizing organizational effectiveness, and creating clear pathways for people to discover God and grow in their gifts.
Nathan has studied ministry at Highlands College, completed certifications at Harvard Business School, and is a current MBA Candidate at Louisiana State University.
HELPING LEADERS GO FURTHER FASTER