About Us
Who We Are
Global Leadership Network
Inspiring Vision & Igniting Transformation
The Global Leadership Network (GLN) is a community of curious, growth-minded, change-driven people committed to developing their leadership skills to maximize their influence for the purpose of igniting positive transformation wherever they live and work. For more than 30 years, the GLN has been driven by the belief that leadership changes everything–When you commit to growing your leadership, everyone around you wins—businesses work for good, communities are transformed and churches thrive!
The Global Leadership Summit is the signature annual event of the Global Leadership Network formerly known as The Willow Creek Association USA, which was formed as a non-profit organization with one mission – to help leaders thrive and drive transformation.
Each year in August, the GLN hosts the Global Leadership Summit, a two-day event, converging 40,000+ participants in the live studio and over 60,000+ online participants.
Our Vision
One million people leading like Jesus globally to impact 100 million more.
Our Mission
To inspire and equip world-class leadership that ignites transformation.
The Global Leadership Summit
The Global Leadership Summit is put together by the Global Leadership Network. Annually, in August, the GLN hosts the Global Leadership Summit. Recognizing the inability to host every possible would-be participant in the event in America due to the tenuous nature of travel and visa arrangements, the GLN having held the event in its headquarter campus in Chicago, then organizes the same summit using video simulcast or an online experience in more than 750 sites in over 120 countries, and translated into 60+ languages with over 500,000 in attendance between September and March of the following year.
Thus, our partnership with GLN, whose mission is to create world-class leadership development to energize Christians and church leaders. In 2007, we started hosting the Global Leadership Summit in Nigeria (GLS Nigeria) in 1 site but today we have grown to have over 92 sites in Nigeria and over 50 sites in 18 West and Central Africa countries. The summit is a great leadership resource to be leveraged as it produces compelling outcomes for all who attend.
Statement of Faith
Membership in the Global Leadership Network is intended to serve churches that hold to a historic, orthodox understanding of biblical Christianity.
- The Bible is God’s unique revelation to people. It is the inspired, infallible Word of God, and the supreme and final authority on all matters upon which it teaches. No other writings are vested with such divine authority.
- There is only one God, creator of heaven and earth, who exists eternally as three persons—Father, Son and Holy Spirit, each fully God, yet each personally distinct from the other.
- All people are created in God’s image and matter deeply to Him. Central to the message of the Bible is that God loves people, and invites them to live in communion with Him and in community with each other.
- Apart from Jesus Christ, all people are spiritually lost and, because of sin, deserve the judgment of God. However, God gives salvation and eternal life to anyone who trusts in Jesus Christ and in His sacrifice on his or her behalf. Salvation cannot be earned through personal goodness or human effort. It is a gift that must be received by humble repentance and faith in Christ and His finished work on the cross.
- Jesus Christ, second Person of the Trinity, was born of the Virgin Mary, lived a sinless human life, willingly took upon Himself all of our sins, died and rose again bodily, and is at the right hand of the Father as our advocate and mediator. Some day, He will return to consummate history and to fulfill the eternal plan of God.
- The Holy Spirit, third Person of the Trinity, convicts the world of sin and draws people to Christ. He also indwells all believers. He is available to empower them to lead Christ-like lives, and gives them spiritual gifts with which to serve the church and reach out to a lost and needy world.
- Death seals the eternal destiny of each person. At the final judgment, unbelievers will be separated from God into condemnation. Believers will be received into God’s loving presence and rewarded for their faithfulness to Him in this life.
- All believers are members of the body of Christ, the one true church universal. Spiritual unity is to be expressed among Christians by acceptance and love of one another across ethnic, cultural, socio-economic, national, generational, gender and denominational lines.
- The local church is a congregation of believers who gather for worship, prayer, instruction, encouragement, mutual accountability and community with each other. Through it, believers invest time, energy and resources to fulfill the Great Commission—reaching lost people and growing them into fully devoted followers of Christ.