Learn How to Expand Your Leadership Capacity

Leaders are learners who intentionally increase competency and expand capacity.

In the world of Christian nonprofits, competency and capacity are not luxury traits—they are the baselines for sustainable ministry. Professional leaders are constantly managing the tension between expanding vision and caring for the people entrusted to their care.

When leadership capacity stalls, the organization’s growth stalls with it.

To accelerate your professional competence and build lifelong ministry resilience, the Christian Leadership Alliance Outcomes Academy Fall term is opening doors to two high-impact, 10-week facilitated cohorts. Led by seasoned industry experts, these courses deliver practical application while advancing you toward the next level of operating excellence.

Two Featured Cohorts Built for Impact

The Fall term focuses heavily on the two engines that drive successful ministries: strategic organizational relationships and Christ-centered self and team leadership.

CCNL3 Relationship | Connecting Hearts to Ministry Mission

• Facilitator: AI and Marketing expert Michelle Beckman-Corbin
• The Focus: Moving past surface-level networking to cultivate deep, biblically grounded, strategic partnerships that fuel organizational sustainability.

TLS 104 Lead Like Jesus | Heart, Head, Hands, and Habits

• Facilitator: Christian Leadership Alliance CEO, Tami Heim, CCNL
• The Focus: Aligning your leadership habits with the greatest role model of all time through sound and practical applications.

Mark Your Calendar: Deadlines & Details

Because these cohorts rely on structured, peer-to-peer digital collaboration, seats are strictly limited to ensure high-quality discussion and peer-to-peer mentorship.

• Registration Closes: September 21, 2026
• Cohorts Launch: September 28, 2026
• Credential Benefit: 20 CCNL points per course

Don’t let operational busyness keep you from operational excellence. Invest in your capacity this Fall so you can steward your ministry’s future with clarity and confidence.

Explore the Outcomes Academy Fall courses and find the one best for you.

Gratitude to Cornerstone Management

The Christian Leadership Alliance Outcomes Academy is delighted to recognize Cornerstone Management as our official Outcomes Academy sponsor. Just as the Academy aims to build your internal leadership capacity, Cornerstone is also dedicated to helping Christian nonprofits enhance their organizational capacity to steward God’s resources faithfully.

Through their signature Worthy of the Gift™ Journey, Cornerstone equips ministry leaders and development teams with a proven methodology to move donor relationships from transactional to transformational. They specialize in helping ministries align their internal financial infrastructure, fiscal policies, and governance models to inspire deep, long-term confidence from major givers.

 If you are ready to prepare your team to handle and inspire transformational gifts that maximize Kingdom impact faithfully, we highly encourage you to explore the resources and expertise available at Cornerstone Management.

Christian Leadership Alliance (CLA) equips and unites leaders to transform the world for Christ. As a premier training community and global network, CLA strengthens leaders across nonprofit ministries, churches, educational institutions, and faith-based businesses. We build mission-critical competencies across nine core disciplines through professional training, certification, digital resources, and peer networking—inspiring organizations to operate with excellence and steward resources faithfully.