The greatest benefit to using the Landscape tool and working with Holy Cow! Consulting was the recommendations about qualities in a bishop which was most helpful in the short term – but the drivers satisfaction and energy will be helpful in the longer run. We have avidly read and incorporated what we learned into our profile. (March 2026)

The CAT is a reliable, evidence-based, benchmarked assessment tool that will help you as leaders measure and understand (with a HolyCow! Consulting professional interpretation) the health, vitality, cultural strengths and critical success factors for improving the congregation. The greatest benefit of working with Holy Cow! has been helping the congregation to identify and evaluate key focus areas, prepare for their clergy search, and begin to improve their health and vitality. (March 2026)

The work with Holy Cow! Consulting is very effective. It is a great way to see ourselves as we are living out our mission. (February 2026)

Our work with Holy Cow! Consulting was outstanding! Our consultant was direct, transparent, responsive to our needs, and able to pivot on a dime when it became clear that we needed her to do such. Well worth the (affordable) cost of the services. Our parish is right where it needs to be at this time in our parish life–thanks in large part to HCC and our consultant. (February 2026)

The most important information for us was data coming from the worship module that will help guide us in improving the worship for our congregation and visitors. Working with Holy Cow! is a must-do for a church in pastoral transition. (October 2025)

The interpretation meeting with the consultant was very helpful, she really gave us a good understanding of the results. This is our second Holy Cow! experience, and I am just as pleased this time as the last. (October 2025)

The CAT was well worth the investment of our time, energy, and money. The greatest benefit was the A clear picture of who we are and how we tend to operate. Our interpreter was first-rate and she created an expanded executive summary which became the primary document we shared with the parish. (October 2025)

The Conversations survey was detailed, easy to understand and complete. The assistance provided by your staff was very helpful in helping us complete the survey in a timely manner – which was very important in our case. The interpretation of the results was excellent, as was our facilitator. I wish we had known about your services in earlier discernment processes!

Susan Czolgosz is very knowledgeable and did an excellent job providing context for our survey results. She answered all of our questions and followed-up with additional detail in a very timely manner. Impressive! (October 2025)

This is an excellent way to go about the early stages of a discernment process. The benchmarking available puts the data in context and the skilled interpretation helps one to avoid hasty conclusions. We have used the information to decide what topics to take up in three discussion groups. These are stimulating more ideas and clarifying nuances in the data you collected and analyzed for us. (August 2025)

Our work with Holy Cow! was insightful, turnkey, flexible… the content and format were easy to understand; making it happen was painless; making adjustments was easy. The greatest benefit has been 1) affirmation of where we are and 2) reinforcement on what we should work on. Kudos to Elizabeth for guiding us along the way! (August 2025)