PRESS & MEDIA
Emma M. Churchman, MDiv
Trauma chaplain.
Executive mentor.
Author of Navigating the Deep End: Resilient Leadership in a Volatile World (GracePoint, 2026).
I help leaders stay steady and make clear decisions in volatile times - without performing certainty.
About Emma
Emma M. Churchman, MDiv is a nationally certified trauma chaplain, executive mentor, and PhD candidate in Conscious Business Ethics.
She helps leaders and organizations navigate volatility and workplace trauma so they can make clearer decisions, communicate with trust, and stay steady under pressure.
Her work draws on 25+ years in crisis + disaster response and trauma recovery and has supported 50,000+ individuals.
She is the author of her third book, Navigating the Deep End: Resilient Leadership in a Volatile World (GracePoint, 2026).
About the Book
Navigating the Deep End: Resilient Leadership in a Volatile World (GracePoint, 2026) is for leaders who are tired of certainty theater and ready for steadiness, truth, and trust when the stakes are high.
In volatile seasons, the goal isn’t to perform certainty. It's to return to presence, tell the truth without panic, choose the next right step, and communicate with integrity.
Readers learn how to:
- Lead through uncertainty without losing trust
- Reduce reactivity and stabilize communication in real time
- Make better decisions when information is incomplete
- Build team resilience through shared language and practical tools
As floods, wildfires, and crises continue to disrupt communities and organizations nationwide, leadership expert and trauma chaplain Emma Churchman offers a timely roadmap in her new book, Navigating the Deep End: Resilient Leadership in a Volatile World (GracePoint Publishing, 2026). Drawing from her firsthand experience serving as a trauma chaplain in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene - and from leaders who have navigated natural disasters, health crises, and market collapses - Churchman challenges the myth that resilience means pushing through, arguing instead that the strongest leaders honor both their humanity and their responsibility to others. Part leadership guide and part crisis playbook, the book covers decision-making under pressure, supporting people through trauma, and rebuilding trust, and is available now everywhere online books are sold.
Interview Highlights
& Topics
Emma is available for podcasts, print, TV, panels, and corporate media.
Popular interview angles:
- Why performing certainty breaks trust and what to do instead
- How to give team updates without panic (what we know / don’t know / next / when well update)
- Decision-making when information is incomplete: the next right step
- Nervous system leadership: reducing reactivity in high-change environments
- Building trauma-resilient workplaces (psychological safety, burnout prevention, retention)
Questions Emma Loves
to Answer
- What does performing certainty look like, and what does it cost teams?
- How do you communicate what’s true when you don’t have all the information yet?
- What's the difference between resilience, recovery, and transformation after crisis?
- How do leaders reduce reactivity (in themselves and their teams) in high-change environments?
- How do you rebuild trust after a volatile season, layoffs, or conflict?
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- Interview Questions
- Speaking Topics + Outcomes
- Endorsements
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Contact &
Booking
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