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What We Offer
Church Leadership Resources
Resources from the Church Leadership Institute
Explore what it means to be adaptive leaders who can go into uncharted territory when everybody has been thrust into it at the same time.
Adaptive Church Cohorts
Innovative cohorts led by Tod Bolsinger and team
6 to18-month long cohorts where a team from your congregation will discover and live into the principles of adaptive change that lead to impactful ministry in the 21st century.
CLI Podcasts
Podcasts from the Church Leadership Institute
The Church Leadership Institute partners with the Spiritual Life and Leadership podcast, hosted by Markus Watson.
Our Mission
Forming Church Leaders to lead
faithful change in a rapidly changing and disruptive world.
Who We Are
Under the direction of Executive Director Dr. Tod Bolsinger, the Church Leadership Institute (CLI) is a coaching group (through cohort based learning) and a research center of church leadership. While there are a number of good resources at work in the larger church today, the De Pree Center Church Leadership Institute brings four distinct aspects to this work:
- Convene: Through our alumni and partner organizations, we bring the diverse church together across denominational and cultural lines to address the largest questions and challenges for the widest possible learning. “We talk to people who don’t talk to each other.”
- Research: Nested in a graduate school, our resources and experiences are grounded and will continually be grounded in research. Ongoing research will enable us to continually learn and offer those learnings to the larger church.
- Reach: As a nonprofit institution with a technology platform and international reach, we can raise money and serve churches that could never afford the expertise of consultant agencies and pour the money from our consulting services back into other congregations, thus strengthening the larger body of Christ
- Formation: As an institution of formational education, our experience and expertise are on the formation of the inner life, character, resilience, and wisdom necessary for leadership-both individuals and congregations as a whole.
Who We Serve
The Church Leadership Institute primarily serves pastors and Christian leaders seeking to bring change to their communities. CLI comes alongside those who have said, “Seminary didn’t prepare me for this” and “I’m not sure I can survive this.”
Pastors and Christian leaders are mostly trained to be teachers and chaplains, but a rapidly changing, continually disruptive world requires that they also become skilled at leading change in their organizations where there are few best practices. CLI exists to come alongside those pastors and Christian leaders who are attempting to lead faithful change.
To contact CLI, please email CLI@fuller.edu.
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