Lee McFarland
Consultant in Peoria, Arizona
Lee McFarland is the CEO of InsightMAX, LLC, based in Peoria, Arizona. InsightMAX LLC was co-founded with McFarland's wife Sandy McFarland, Vice-President.
As a consultant, he specializes in Funding Strategies and Grant-Writing for non-profits.
A trade-mark service McFarland offers is Vision-Mapping, a fun, participative, visual process that produces a 5-point strategic plan within 1-2 days with up to 15 leaders who actively participate in the process.
Lee was formerly Chief of Staff, Executive Pastor, Men's Pastor, and Director of Campus Expansion at Impact Church, a non-denominational megachurch with over 14,000 attendees, in Scottsdale, Arizona. He is an Ordained Minister in good standing with the Assemblies of God and is part of the Arizona Ministry Network.
Mr. McFarland was formerly the Executive Director of Project 29:11, a 501(c)3 non-profit Community Development Corporation in Covina, CA, from 2015 to 2021, during which time it received recognition as “Nonprofit of the Year” for 2022 in Los Angeles County. During that same time period, Lee was Lead Pastor at Luminate Church in Covina, CA, a Muti-site church of 2,400 in Los Angeles County.
Pastor Lee is also the Founder of Radiant Church - Surprise, Arizona, a church he started in 1997 which grew to 6,200 in 10 years (Outreach Magazine, Sept 2011 issue), while also operating a 300-student preschool on the church campus.
Concurrently, in 1998, he also founded Paragon Management Inc., dba, Paradise Honors Charter Schools (2,200 current enrollment and NCA accredited).
Previous to ministry, McFarland was a former MICROSOFT leader as a Director for World-Wide Operations (WWOPS) in Redmond, Washington.
He also held positions with increasing responsibility at HONEYWELL, Inc., including Division Quality Manager, Program Manager, Engineering Production Manager, and Senior Engineer.
Creative thinker, solutions provider and culture untangler.
Vision-Mapping expert and professional group facilitator.
Exciting and humorous communicator and speaker with a great comeback story.
Strategic planning formulater and valuable team contributor.
Bible teacher, preacher and expositor.