Leadership Prayers
Price: $12.95

Leading Beyond the Walls: Developing Congregations with a Heart for the Unchurched
Price: $22.00

Real Leadership
Price: $27.95

Executive Intelligence: What All Great Leaders Have
Price: $27.95

Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, & Total Nonsense
Price: $27.50

What Makes This
Conference Unique?

A significant and well-documented shift has been occurring in leadership over the past decade.

The old model of leadership relied on innate characteristics--personal magnetism, charismatic charm, a commanding presence, an inspiring image.

The new model of leadership focuses on empowerment through specific ways of thinking and behaving, relating and communicating, listening and learning, collaborating and team building--all of which can be learned, strengthened, and improved.

The Breakthrough Leadership Conference builds on this new yet timeless approach. You'll come away with a much deeper, clearer understanding of what it really takes to lead a ministry, congregation, or other organization successfully in the fast-paced, ever-changing realities of the 21st century.

The conference is also distinct in its combination of these seven strengths:

1. The Art and Science of Effective Leadership

The BLC offers comprehensive, well-researched, "fad-free" training. The art involves self-awareness and personal behaviors; the science part is evidence-based and outcome-focused. Leaders go home thoroughly equipped to deal more effectively with the real-world challenges they face.

2. Practical, Applicable, and Relevant

Since 1975, Stephen Ministries has built a solid reputation as a "how-to" organization--turning concepts and ideas into high-quality, user-friendly ministry systems that produce life-changing results year after year. Take a look at the conference schedule.

3. A Christ-Centered Approach to Leadership Excellence

The BLC offers the best practices and principles of leadership today--thoroughly grounded in Christian theology.

4. Sound Psychology

Effective leaders understand how people think, feel, behave, and communicate. Sound psychology and quality relational skills are a hallmark of Stephen Ministries' training and resources.

5. Experienced, Active Leaders as Faculty

BLC faculty members are accomplished leader-teachers who have equipped tens of thousands of leaders and who regularly practice what they teach. Find out more about the conference faculty.

6. Executive-Level Training--for Congregations

Corporate leaders have long benefited from weeklong executive education courses offered by leading university business schools. (You can also receive graduate credit or professional CEUs for the BLC.) The Breakthrough Leadership Conference makes such high-quality leadership training accessible to congregations.

Business executives who have attended as part of a congregation team tell us the BLC is on par with the best business leadership courses--with two added benefits:

1. It is distinctively Christian.
2. It costs much less than other executive education courses. (See the conference costs.)

7. A Focus on Achievement

The true measure of a leadership training event is:

What are you doing differently and how are you succeeding more as a result of the training event?

This is where the BLC really shines. Past participants share how they continue to overcome challenges, break through barriers, and grow as a result of all they learned and are using every day.

Read what other leaders are saying about the BLC.

Download the Breakthrough Leadership Conference Executive Summary--a concise (2-page) description of the Breakthrough Leadership Conference from the perspective of a business leader. It's an ideal summary of the conference for business leaders to share with their supervisors or HR departments.

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