About

Since 2005, Dr. Roger J. Huston has worked as an educator, consultant, coach, director, and minister with individuals and local, state, regional, national, and international businesses, governments, and nonprofit organizations.  After doing freelance management consulting from 2008 to 2018, Roger founded Faith Works Consulting in 2019.  

His consulting portfolio includes spiritual, religious, faith-based social enterprises, congregations, human service nonprofits, and higher education institutions.  His clients include individuals in a wide variety of professions, including business executives, board members, nonprofit directors, presidents and vice presidents, faculty and staff, pastors and ministers, actors and athletes, musicians and artists, and politicians and public servants.

I love meeting new people and cherish the opportunity to have conversations about life, faith, and work.

Over the past two decades, Dr. Huston has served in several leadership positions, including is as the Dean of the School of Business and Leadership at Kentucky Christian University, Affiliate Faculty for the Robertson School of Government at Regent University, and as a member of the Board of Directors for Global City Mission Initiative and Love Thy Neighborhood. He previously served as the Director of Testify–a religious education nonprofit organization–and as a Youth Director and Young Adult Director at two congregations. He was a member of the State of Iowa Board of Athletic Training and the Des Moines Area Religious Council.

Dr. Huston graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.A. with Honors in Religion from Simpson College. He then earned a Master of Arts in Religion from Yale University. Dr. Huston also holds a Master of Public Administration from Iowa State University and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of Delaware.  His dissertation, A Paradox Perspective on Faith-Based Organizations, explored organizational paradox theory on matters related to faith-based nonprofit management, such as belonging, learning, organizing, and performance. Dr. Huston is in the process of earning an Ed.M. in Higher Education Leadership from Harvard University.

Dr. Huston has written and presented on topics such as faith and work, faith and policy, higher education leadership, and nonprofit management. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in the areas of business, computer science, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, leadership, management, marketing, political science, and public policy.  His research interests include nonprofit management and leadership, organizational theory and behavior, social impact and entrepreneurship, social and education policy, religion and public policy, and religion and public life.

In his free time, Roger enjoys spending time with his wife, Shawna, and two sons, Noah and Micah.  He loves lifting weights, hiking, and organic “hobby-farming” and sugarin’ (Walnut & Maple Syrup making) on their property in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.  Roger describes himself as “introverted and witty” and sometimes randomly inserts movie references into conversations.