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Institute for Innovation & Impact

Put leadership into faithful action.

Through real-world innovation and impact projects, we equip leaders and their teams to address meaningful challenges, reimagine strategy, design creative solutions, and build organizations and communities that flourish.

Project Types

Community & Nonprofit Challenges

Tackle real community needs.

We work with nonprofits and community organizations to bring leadership talent and fresh thinking to your most pressing challenges.

Corporate & Business Challenges

Navigate disruption and growth.

Corporate teams engage with our innovation process to solve strategic challenges while developing their leaders

Church & Faith-Based Challenges

Discern faithfully. 

Churches and faith organizations work with us to address strategic transitions, ministry innovation, and leadership development rooted in biblical wisdom.

Design Thinking Method


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Leaders engage complex, real-world challenges across business, nonprofit, church, and community settings. Our facilitation team guides leaders and their project teams through disciplined innovation methods, systems thinking, and faith-informed discernment—learning to lead change with wisdom, courage, and humility while strengthening institutions and serving the common good.

Example projects may include:
 reimagining strategy, designing innovative solutions, strengthening organizational capabilities, improving customer and stakeholder experiences, advancing collaboration and partnership models, and supporting leadership transitions and governance effectiveness.

"I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom...having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints."

Ephesians 1:16-18

Innovation Tools & Certifications 

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sprint base
experience change
award
award
completion
12 skills
certified

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Collaborations & Partnerships 

chalmers
treehouse
digital protagonist
bridge innovate

Frequently Asked Questions

Nonprofits, community organizations, corporations, businesses, and churches can all partner with us on innovation sprints. We work with organizations of any size facing meaningful challenges.

We address strategic challenges, leadership gaps, operational inefficiencies, ministry direction, market disruption, community needs, and any challenge where fresh thinking and collaborative problem-solving can create sustainable solutions.

Complete the contact form or email jenny.whitener@covenant.edu. Describe your challenge and timeline, and we'll schedule a conversation to explore whether an innovation sprint is the right fit.

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