I have spent most of my career inside the back office. Not the glamorous part of the work. The part where the systems either hold or they don’t, where the audit goes smoothly or it doesn’t, where the board either trusts the numbers or asks hard questions you can’t answer.

I came up through corporate finance, worked as a CFO at organizations you might recognize, and eventually made a deliberate move toward the work I cared most about: helping churches and nonprofits build the financial foundation their mission deserves.

The Backoffice Blueprint came out of hundreds of conversations with executive directors, board members, and church administrators who were smart, committed leaders doing the Lord’s work with financial systems that were one staff departure away from a crisis. Not because they didn’t care. Because no one had ever walked them through what good looks like.

This book is that conversation in writing.

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Background

Thirty Years in the Room Where It Happens

My experience spans corporate, nonprofit, and ministry finance. I have sat at the CFO’s desk, the board table, and the consultant’s chair. What I bring to every engagement is the practitioner’s perspective: I have seen what works, what looks good on paper but falls apart in practice, and what nonprofit leaders actually need to lead well.

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The Book

Why I Wrote It

Most financial books written for nonprofit leaders are either too technical to be useful or too general to apply. The Backoffice Blueprint is neither. It is organized around five practical pillars: Foundations, Disbursements, Receipts, Reporting, and Implementation. Each chapter ends with a Blueprint Note summary and an Inspection Points checklist your team can act on immediately.

It is not a replacement for your CPA. It is not compliance training. It is the framework that gives your entire leadership team a shared language for the financial work that keeps your mission running.

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