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009 Are We Going Bankrupt? | Christian Leadership Alliance President and CEO Tami Heim
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On March 12, 2020, Tami Heim learned the governor had shut down public gatherings in Texas. The Outcomes Conference was weeks away. And she was facing the possibility that Christian Leadership Alliance was, in her words, completely bankrupt.
In the next 24 hours, she called legal counsel before the board, received an unexpected offer from a tech platform, and decided to pivot the entire conference online before anyone else in the sector was doing it. Within 30 days, she took it global.
CLA eventually trained over 11,000 leaders in more than 100 countries on the platform she built that week.
Tami also names something I hear from CEOs frequently: crisis has a unique power to make leaders think the unthinkable. The question is whether you can get there before the crisis forces you.
Tami Heim is President and CEO of the Christian Leadership Alliance, celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2026.