Discuss with Arete Advisory GroupABOUT ARETE ADVISORY GROUP
Arete Advisory Group is a collective of Christian education professionals across disciplines and levels of experience who come together to serve Christian schools.
Our whole-school approach connects classroom practice, student formation, leadership, governance, enrollment, advancement, finance, and operations. We bring the experience appropriate to the school’s decision and available capacity; the written scope identifies the people, responsibilities, and deliverables for each engagement.
Our work values Biblical faithfulness, honest evidence, responsible stewardship, confidentiality, and practical follow-through. School leaders and boards retain responsibility for their decisions.
Discuss with Arete Advisory Group Explore our programs and solutions →FOUNDER & SENIOR CONSULTANT
Four decades inside Christian education, ministry, leadership, and crisis response have shaped one conviction: schools make better decisions when mission, evidence, people, and stewardship are considered together.
ABOUT TC
TC Megahan founded Arete Advisory Group to give Christian-school leaders candid, practical counsel rooted in the realities of leading a school. His work is informed by service as a teacher, athletic coach, administrator, head of school, board member, admissions and enrollment leader, financial-aid and development director, spiritual-life leader, consultant, pastor, and chaplain.
That range of experience is one contribution to Arete's collective whole-school approach. Enrollment decisions affect finances. Financial decisions affect staffing and program quality. Governance shapes leadership health. Curriculum and student life reveal whether the mission is becoming visible. TC helps leaders see those connections, identify the decision underneath the immediate pressure, and move toward responsible action.
A WHOLE-SCHOOL PERSPECTIVE
Teacher, coach, administrator, head-of-school service, board membership, admissions, enrollment, development, financial aid, and spiritual life.
Christian-school consulting, organizational planning, tuition and aid strategy, financial forecasting, sustainability, governance, accreditation, and implementation.
Pastoral leadership, chaplaincy, student formation, biblical teaching, athletics, community service, and care for people through consequential seasons.
Longstanding work in crisis response, grief support, Psychological First Aid, emergency preparedness, and recovery with public-service organizations.
A PRACTITIONER'S APPROACH
“The more useful question is: What should this school do, with its mission, people, evidence, resources, responsibilities, and opportunities?”
TC's advisory work is deliberately direct and usable. An engagement should clarify the decision, gather the evidence that matters, identify realistic choices, and leave leaders with priorities they can explain and implement.
His wider experience in ministry, professional athletics chaplaincy, grief and trauma care, disaster response, teaching, coaching, business, and public speaking also informs how he works with people under pressure. Strategy matters, but so do trust, communication, judgment, and faithful presence.
TC earned a bachelor's degree in pastoral ministry and a Master of Divinity, with additional study in business, accounting, emergency management, crisis response, and Psychological First Aid. He has presented to school leaders, boards, faculty members, churches, conferences, and community organizations.
WHAT SCHOOLS CAN EXPECT
Understand the school, its history, its people, and the decision leadership is actually carrying.
Use financial, enrollment, demographic, academic, operational, and cultural information responsibly.
Translate findings into choices, owners, measures, timing, and the next responsible action.
Define scope carefully and avoid unnecessary consulting layers or generic packages.
SPEAKING & FACILITATION
Arete provides school professional development, workshops, board development, and facilitated conversations. TC contributes as founder and senior consultant; presenter fit and availability are confirmed before scheduling.
Explore classroom grief support, 21st-century technology, AI in Christian education, and mission-aligned teaching, with published virtual, half-day, and full-day rates.
Review topics, pricing, and travel terms →EXPERIENCE FOR THE DECISION AHEAD
Discuss the decision, pressure, or opportunity facing your school with Arete Advisory Group and identify the appropriate experience and support.