Phil Cooke / PhD. Strategic Advisor. Cultural Influence & Crisis Leadership

About this episode

Phil Cooke discusses the challenges churches face in a distracted culture and how to effectively communicate their message.

Your church is competing in the most distracted culture in human history — and most ministry leaders don't even know it. Phil Cooke, Ph.D. — Hollywood producer, strategic media advisor, and author — has spent decades helping churches, nonprofits, and ministry leaders cut through the noise and get their story out to the world. In this conversation, Phil and Paul pull back the curtain on why the church keeps fumbling its message, what healthy culture actually looks like inside a ministry,...

People in this episode

Host: Paul Povolni

Guest: Phil Cooke

Topics covered

• church leadership
• cultural influence
• crisis leadership
• media strategy
• communication

Keywords

• church
• cultural influence
• crisis leadership
• media advisor
• communication strategy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hollywood, church, nonprofits, ministry

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