From 1985 - 2019 (with a 20-month break-consulting with nonprofit boards beginning in October 2015) Reid Lehman served as President/CEO of Miracle Hill Ministries, the largest provider of homeless shelter services in the Carolinas. More than 650 men, women and children are housed each night in Miracle Hill’s residential facilities and 200+ foster families located in Pickens, Greenville, Spartanburg and Cherokee Counties.
He received his MBA from Winthrop University and completed a Senior Organizational Development Certificate from NTL. A 1998 graduate of John Carver’s Policy Governance Academy, He completed Govern for Impact’s Policy Governance Proficiency Program in 2018.
He helped facilitate Miracle Hill’s transition to Policy Governance in 1998 and supported the MHM Board under the Policy Governance system while serving as CEO.
Reid has been a governance trainer and presenter throughout the Southeast since 1992, starting with Greenville United Way. He provided governance training at the Greenville Chamber for years. He has previously presented at a GOVERN for IMPAC Annual Conference, many years ago, “The Role of the Chair” and “Do the Bylaws Really Matter” and more recently as a table talk leader on "Tools for Effective Decision Making.”
Representing Miracle Hill, Reid provides board consulting and organizational development services to gospel rescue missions in the Southeast. He also assists Citygate, the national Association of Gospel Rescue Missions, training boards of rescue missions across the country. Reid has led more than 100 boards through a transition to “Policy Governance” including:
- Colorado Springs Christian School Board
- The Phoenix Center
- World Christian Broadcasting, Nashville, TN
- Jacksonville City Rescue Mission, Jacksonville FL
- and numerous other rescue missions across the country
- National Speaker’s Association
- Blood Connection, Greenville, SC.
- Children’s Museum, Greenville, SC
- Richland County First Steps
A former Board member, Vice-Chair of Together SC, the South Carolina Association of Nonprofits, he helped create their Guiding Principles and Best Practices for nonprofits, drafting their governance principles.
Reid has received S.C.’s Order of the Silver Crescent and the Order of the Palmetto. He’s a past Chair of the Palmetto Association of Children’s Homes and Family Services and the S.C. State Council on Maternal and Child Health. Books written: God Wears His Own Watch and Are Those the Words You Meant to Use?
