What changed
The work moved inside the leader.
Information is now the cheapest thing a leader can get. What is scarce is judgment: holding paradox, deciding without a clear answer, staying anchored in purpose while always on.
Most leadership development still adds information and skills. But the gap is not out there. It is the distance between what leading now asks of a person inside and what most programs build.
That is the work we do. AI is the occasion. The soul needed care before it, and will after.
The field is saying the same thing
Trudi McCanna, who has led leadership development at companies including Google and JetBlue Airways, puts it plainly: leading right now “isn’t about earning an A.”
Plans are no longer the edge.
AI can now draft functional plans that rival what a leader or team might produce alone, so she sees the real differentiator as how people navigate complexity together.
Capacity is how you think.
Leaders in similar roles thrive or struggle mostly because of how they see their role, she says, not because of skills or experience.
Growth takes reflection, together.
Development, in her view, needs time to reflect and time with other adults who make sense of things differently.
Trudi McCanna, VP of Coaching & Advisory, Hudson Institute of Coaching. Paraphrased from “A Conversation with Trudi McCanna,” Hudson Institute of Coaching, August 24, 2026.
What we mean by soul care
Care for the part of you that judges, feels, and chooses.
We work from a specific view of the person: spirit, soul, and body, with the soul made of mind, emotion, and will. That gives the work something real to attend to.
Mind
What you believe
Questions that surface what you believe about yourself, the world, and other people, and how that shapes your judgment.
Emotion
What you feel
Naming your emotional state honestly, with peers who carry weight alongside you instead of taking more from you.
Will
What you choose
Clarifying intention and purpose, so you can commit to the best answer available now and stay anchored under pressure.
How we work
Two ways to be cared for, each in relationship.
For one leader
Coaching
A mirror for you alone: the beliefs under your judgment, the emotion under your performance, the intention under your decisions.
A thought partner with the skill to help you understand and change what’s limiting your effectiveness.
For your leadership team · Starts January 2027
The City Impact Cohort
Seven or eight leaders at one table, once a month for six months, in San Diego. Your team leaves with one shared language for how each person works, and the decisions that used to circle start to land.
Who you'll be working with
Brian and Cindy Schutt.
We started Relational Soul Care because we both saw what happens when a person tends their soul, whatever their position. Our clients have ranged from a homeschooling mom to a senior principal engineer working on advanced 3D video processing. When they took care of what they were thinking, how they were feeling, and what they applied their wills to, their individual and leadership performance improved, and they were happier and healthier.
Brian Schutt
Professional Certified Coach, ICF
Twenty-six years at Intel as an executive and enterprise Agile coach, including a full-time leadership coaching role that reduced middle- and senior-manager attrition. He works with AI daily, and tests what it tells him before relying on it.
Cindy Schutt
Soul care coach · Certified Enneagram practitioner
Seventeen years in Christian school administration, with a background in child development. She has successfully applied the wisdom of the Enneagram with her clients, and it dovetails seamlessly with her highly effective coaching blend of support and challenge.
Start here
Most rooms you walk into need something from you. This one is for you.
Three small steps, in this order. No pressure and no pitch.
1
Take the 5 Voices assessment
Free, about 15 minutes. See how you naturally lead and where you collide.
2
Sit down for thirty minutes
We look at your results together and decide what, if anything, would help.
3
Begin when you're ready
One-on-one coaching, a group coaching program, or a table for your team in the City Impact Cohort.