Jim Lundholm-Eades

About Jim Lundholm-Eades

Jim Lundholm-Eades has served the Catholic Church in multiple ministries for over 50 years. He currently serves as a Senior Fellow of the Department of Business and Ecclesial Management for Catholic International University. He has served as Director of Programs and Services and as Senior Consultant for Leadership Roundtable. In that role he has worked with over 100 dioceses and archdioceses, many religious orders, and national Catholic organizations. He was a professor in the Program of Church Management at the Pontifical University of Santa Croce in Rome teaching Church finance and diocesan administration. He has been a national speaker, university faculty, researcher and author on diocesan administration, deep culture change in Catholic dioceses, pastoral leadership strategies, clergy assignment for dioceses, Church finance, pastoral planning, and how dioceses and parishes recover from sexual abuse. Previously he served as Director of Parish Services and Planning and was the Associate Director of Catholic Education and Formation Ministries in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Jim has graduate degrees in educational administration, pastoral counseling, counseling, and business administration.

Pastoral Planning 101

A Stronger Communion for the Sake of the Mission: A Better Church

For those of us who experienced pastoral planning at parish or diocesan levels over time, we have seen changes that make the practices of the past seem unrecognizable. Key to those changes is a re-examination of the underlying purpose of … [Read more...]

Twelve Lessons about the Financial Future of Catholic Schools

I have spoken with several bishops recently about the Catholic schools in their dioceses. The conversations brought home to me that what I recently heard from these bishops are the same questions, and the same challenges, that I have been … [Read more...]

Best Practices for Clergy Assignment Boards

This is an assembly of some best practices for clergy assignment boards, gleaned from examples in dioceses across the U.S., encountered while doing numerous assessments of chanceries relative to best practices at the request of their … [Read more...]

What Every Chancery Needs to Consider

Six Reasons Why Some Chanceries Work Better than Others

While every chancery is unique, some clearly function better than others. There are, in fact, six common, key differentiators (listed below) which separate the highest functioning chanceries from those that are simply well functioning. I … [Read more...]