Staci Thomas serves as Chief Executive Officer of Haggai International, providing the vision, strategy, and leadership that carry the ministry’s mission into every corner of the world. She stepped into the role from the Chief Operating Officer’s seat, where she guided the teams through the most fruitful year of ministry programming in Haggai’s sixty-year history.

Her leadership was formed over twenty-three years as a licensed civil engineer. A graduate of Virginia Tech, she designed drainage systems, parking lots, and water and wastewater treatment facilities – systems built to hold for decades. Paired with experience in project management and response marketing, that discipline gave her a rare combination of technical rigor and operational instinct.

She carried those skills into the nonprofit sector as Chief Operating Officer at Chosen, an organization dedicated to helping families impacted by the child welfare system heal from trauma. There she helped lead the organization’s transformation from a grassroots initiative into a nationally recognized ministry.

She describes her leadership in a single word: access. In Scripture, access is never an accident; it is the result of something being opened. Haggai has spent sixty years opening doors, and she intends the same inside its own house with leaders heard as often as they are equipped.

Staci and her husband have been married for more than thirty years. After living throughout Florida and in Chicago, they settled in Atlanta, Georgia, where together they have built a family of six through adoption, including four daughters from four countries. She is a voracious reader, passionate about discipling young women, and an enthusiastic college football fan.