The Brock Barnes Center for Leadership

Equipping The Next Generation of Servant Leaders

There is a Leadership Crisis in Our Country.

Christlike Servant Leadership is a Solution.

Leaders today face a profound trust deficit, ethical uncertainty, and growing cultural division. Organizations and communities are searching for leaders who listen, serve, and lead with integrity and courage.

Servant Leadership Transforms Organizations

24%
Increase in engagement
and collaboration

50%
Reduction in burnout

17%
Improvement in
performance and impact

"But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave, even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

Matthew 20:26b-28

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The Mission

Equipping servant leaders to faithfully build institutions and communities in Christ’s work of making all things new.

The Vision

An integrated leadership formation model that shapes identity, deepens character, builds leadership capability, and applies learning in real-world contexts to faithfully build institutions and communities in Christ's renewing work.

Leadership Formation Model

Vision

Leadership identity grounded in Christ

Shaping a leadership identity and calling grounded in Christ's example of humility, integrity, purpose, and a commitment to human flourishing.

Growth

Character and leadership capability developed together

Cultivating self-awareness, biblical discernment, courage, integrity, and resilience alongside essential leadership skills for faithful and strategic stewardship of organizations.

Action

Leadership applied in real-world contexts

Applying leadership skills through real-world challenges, service, innovation, and organizational challenges to lead wisely amid complexity.

Wisdom

Learning from lived experience

Gaining perspective and discernment through reflection, dialogue, and shared stories from faithful leaders in the arena.

Signature Programs

Where formation becomes practice

Institute for Student Leadership
Institute for Executive Education
The Brock Forum
The Barnes Executive-in-Residence Series
Leaders in the Arena Series

The Institute for Student Leadership serves as the home for student leadership formation at Covenant College, shaping students to become faithful, self-aware, and Christ-centered leaders prepared to serve and build wherever they are called.
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Jenny Whitener

Executive Director

Jenny Whitener serves as executive director of the Brock-Barnes Center for Leadership at Covenant College. A visionary practitioner with more than 25 years of experience in strategic innovation, leadership development, and organizational transformation, Jenny leads the center’s work to equip servant leaders to faithfully build institutions and communities in Christ’s work of making all things new.

Her career has focused on helping organizations innovate, transform culture, and execute strategy in ways that enable people and communities to flourish. She has held senior leadership roles at Ernst & Young, Capgemini, Prudential HealthCare, and Kaiser Permanente, and is the founder of Bridge Innovate, a boutique consulting firm serving Fortune 500 companies, healthcare systems, nonprofits, and educational institutions.

Jenny’s leadership is shaped by a Reformed vision of vocation—understanding leadership as stewardship and service. Her work centers on forming leaders whose character, competence, and calling shape how they lead, serve others, and contribute to the flourishing of the church and the world.

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Join us as we equip the next generation of leaders who listen with empathy, act with courage, and serve with purpose. Together, we will strengthen organizations, communities, and the Kingdom.

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