Heath Michael Bottomly
He gave the stage away on purpose. He still says it hurt more than he expected.
Heath Michael Bottomly led worship for years before moving into senior leadership, and he is honest about what happened when the platform went away: he had no idea how much of his identity was sitting on it.
You’ll hear the one regret a mentor handed him about holding onto the stage too long, why churches keep hiring an artist when they think they are hiring a pastor, and what changes when a leader’s real job becomes clearing roadblocks so the team can run.
He also pushes back on how most of us talk about worship, arguing your weekend song selection was never meant to carry the weight of a life lived worshipfully.
Heath is executive pastor over creative teams at Pure Heart Church in Arizona, director of the Experience Conference, and author of Unimaginable.
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About Heath
Heath is a creative, an executive pastor, strategist, and mentor with over 30 years of experience helping churches and organizations clarify vision, align culture, and build creative systems that actually work.
He has led creative, worship, production, and communications teams at scale, served as a creative strategist for national conferences, consulted with leaders across the country, and co-authored works on leadership and creative culture.
Heath’s passion is bringing clarity to complex environments — especially where creativity, leadership, and mission intersect. He believes strategy is a form of pastoral care, and that healthy alignment produces sustainable creativity, not burnout.
Today, Heath works with senior leaders and creative teams through consulting, speaking, and mentoring, helping them build environments where people flourish and vision moves forward.
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